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Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a N orth A egean I sland: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks, and Re‐Imagined Communities
Author(s) -
Margomenou Despina,
Papavasiliou Faidra
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
studies in ethnicity and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1754-9469
pISSN - 1473-8481
DOI - 10.1111/sena.12040
Subject(s) - prehistory , ethnography , state (computer science) , anthropology , politics , sociology , history , cultural anthropology , media studies , archaeology , law , political science , algorithm , computer science
Cultural intimacy, that ‘fellowship of the flawed’ (Byrne 2011; Herzfeld 1997, 2005, 2009), elucidates a framework for the analysis of how hegemonic discourses of national identity effectively coerce, or fail to coerce, citizens. Originally emerging from Greek ethnographic contexts, this framework focused the anthropological lens not on publically performed consensus, but on silent – or silenced – dissent vis-a-vis hegemonic national discourse about one, glorified, ‘Greek Past’ and the behaviours and attitudes prescribed for those who claim it as their ‘National Heritage’ in the present. Denoting continuity of descent from that singular past, heritage dominates national discourse in Modern Greece (e.g. Damaskos and