Pentaraki, Maria and Speake, Janet (2022) Grassroots solidarity structures in Greece as counterhegemonic practices contesting the dominant neoliberal hegemony. Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 16 (1). pp. 5-21. ISSN 1843–6587
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Abstract
In crisis conditions, solidarity structures emerge as a social and political response to the crisis. This study introduces a new conceptualisation of solidarity structures as grassroots contestations to the neoliberal ‘there-is-no-alternative’ (TINA) discourse. It argues that their operation reflects counterhegemonic practices that can keep alive the hope that another world, based on principles of solidarity, is possible. Moreover, this paper, utilising Gramsci’s work, argues that welfare grassroots community solidarity structures (WGCSS) challenge hegemonic assumptions surrounding the TINA discourse, such as responsibilisation and individual failings, by reflecting arguments for collective provisioning, empowerment and community action, and systemic failings. The arguments made in this paper draw on rapid ethnographic activist research in Chania, Crete, Greece.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The published version is available from: http://www.humangeographies.org.ro/volume-16-issue-1-2022/1611-abstract |
| Keywords: | welfare, mutual aid structures, austerity, Gramsci, counter hegemony, resistance, soup kitchen, crisis |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Computer Science and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | Janet Speake |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2022 13:18 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2025 10:16 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3594 |
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