Dimtris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of The Other Self:Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction (2003), editor of Re-Imagining the Past: Greek Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture (2014) and Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity (2017).
This is cultural history at its best - interdisciplinary, wide-ranging and packed with well-chosen detail. Tziovas explores the shifts and turns of how Greeks have been (mis)understood, by themselves and others, since the 1970s, with an admirably open mind and a determination to move on from past stereotypes. --Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, King's College London, UK The first ever study of cultural transformation in Greece after the 1970's, Greece from Junta to Crisis offers us a country in transition. Based on exhaustive research and inspired by a synthetic vision, it provides unique perspectives on a dizzying variety of topics such as national identity, gay subjectivity, popular movements, cinema, fiction, classical antiquity, the Internet, and conceptions of the west. It will become the standard work on the topic. --Professor Gregory Jusdanis, The Ohio State University, USA