Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award
The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country
since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of
post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends
in the years between the fall of the junta and the economic crisis, highlighting the growing diversity and cultural ambivalence of Greek society.
With its focus on
issues such as identity, antiquity, religion, language, literature, media, cinema, youth, gender and sexuality, this study is one of the first to examine cultural trends in Greece over the last fifty years. Aiming for a more nuanced understanding of recent history, the study offers a fresh perspective on current problems.
By:
Dimitris Tziovas (Birmingham University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780755642540
ISBN 10: 0755642546
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 January 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1.Modernization and Cultural Dualisms 2.Eurosceptics or Europhiles? The Cultural Dilemmas of Europeanization 3.Debating the Nation and its Contested Pasts: Antiquity and Mnemohistory 4.Identity, Religion, Migration: From Homogeneity to Embracing Otherness 5.Language Questions: From Standardization to Diversity 6.From Poetry to Prose: Discovering Modernism and Revising the Canon 7.The Challenges of Deregulation: From Monophonic to Polyphonic Media 8. Cinematic Allegories: From History to Domesticity 9. Youth, Feminism and Sexuality: From Oikos to Demos 10. The Rediscoveries of Greece: From Ancient Ruins to the Ruins of Crisis Conclusion Index
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).
Reviews for Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity
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
- Short-listed for Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2022 (United States)
- Short-listed for Runciman Award 2022 (United States)
