Acts of citizenship in present-day Greece

Kristina Gedgaudaitė; Dimitris Papanikolaou; Theophilos Trampoulis

doi:10.1386/jgmc_00079_5

ISSN: 2052-3971
E-ISSN: 2052-398X

Acts of citizenship in present-day Greece
Authors: Kristina Gedgaudaitė¹, Dimitris Papanikolaou², Theophilos Trampoulis³
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Affiliations: ¹ ISNI: 0000000084992262 University of Amsterdam ² ISNI: 0000000419368948 University of Oxford ³ ISNI: 0000000122999001 National Museum of Contemporary Art
Source: Journal of Greek Media & Culture, Volume 9, Issue 2, Nov 2023, p. 211 - 228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00079_5
Language: English
- Published online: 05 Dec 2023

Abstract

How do communities (fully fledged, active or imagined) perform citizenship? How do recent policies on urban planning and economic development in the city impact public space as the very site where citizenship is claimed, performed and experienced? What is the relationship between practices of memory (from personal memory, to collective and institutional) and acts of citizenship? How does the memory and the archivization of community life (in other words, the creation of a communal past) help the emergence of new demands for inclusion, rights and agonistic togetherness? Drawing inspiration from the colloquium Being Citizens Together: Rethinking Social Citizenship in Greece that took place on 11 February 2023 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), we invited the participants of the colloquium to reflect on the notion of social citizenship in Greece. The contributions include an interview with the curators of the event Dimitris Papanikolaou and Theophilos Tramboulis with the Reviews+ co-editor Kristina Gedgaudaitė as well as critical reflections and creative writing interventions by eight of the participants: Christos Chrysanthopoulos, Sofia Dona, Brikena Gishto, Pafsanias Karathanasis, Erofili Kokkali, Iris Lykourioti, Anna Papaeti and Theo Prodromidis.

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Article Type: Discussion

Keyword(s): acts of citizenship; EMST; Engin F. Isin; memory and citizenship; public space; sexual citizenship; social citizenship; social movements

Acts of citizenship in present-day Greece

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