Description:
Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.
Brief description:
Daniel M. Knight is Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is author of History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (Palgrave, 2015) and co-author of The Anthropology of the Future (Cambridge, 2019, with Rebecca Bryant).
Review Quotes:
"This is groundbreaking work in all terms - ethnographically, conceptually, analytically. The kind of book that will become a classic in more than one field." - Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Durham University
"This is an insightful and gripping account of a troubling undercurrent in Greece as depicted in the personal narratives by men and women who still struggle to build lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of the 2009 crash of the country's state economy." - Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Georgia State University