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Surplus Citizens: Nationalism and Struggle in Greece

by Dimitra Kotouza
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780745337784
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: GBP 26.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 334 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism

The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe. In Surplus Citizens, Dimitra Kotouza questions the terms of the debate by demonstrating how the national framing of social contestation posed obstacles to transformative collective action, but also how this framing has been challenged. Analysing the increasing superfluousness of subordinate classes in Greece as part of a global phenomenon with racialised and gendered dimensions, the book interrogates the strengths, contradictions and limits of collective action and identity in the crisis, from the movement of the squares and neighbourhood assemblies, to new forms of labour activism, environmental struggles, immigrant protests, anti-fascism and pro-refugee activism. Arguing against the strategic fixation on unified identities and pointing instead to the transformative potential of internal dispute within movements, Surplus Citizens highlights the relevance of a discussion of Greece to collective action beyond it, as we continue to traverse a global financial crisis that has provoked conflicts over nationalism, immigration and the rise of neo-fascism.

Dimitra Kotouza is a researcher on forms of social domination, collective action and subjectivity. Her writing has appeared in political magazines, edited books and academic journals in Greece and the UK. She is currently a lecturer at Middlesex University and an editorial collective member of the journals Mute and Endnotes. She is the author of Surplus Citizens: Social Struggle, Social Division and Nationalism in the Greek Crisis (Pluto, 2018).

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