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Vacarme, 2018
This article provides insights in the pending potentialities of the grassroots solidarity movemen... more This article provides insights in the pending potentialities of the grassroots solidarity movement in Greece, two years after the reversal of the "OXI" (No) referendum by the government of SYRIZA. It sees the self-organised solidarity beyond the dominant discourse of "a response to austerity". It focuses instead in their constitutive elements and potential to articulate both a public sphere from below and the material socio-economic infrastructures for post-capitalist transformations.
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development, sustainability and infrastr... more In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development, sustainability and infrastructural potential of grassroots solidarity networks that appeared in Greece since 2011. Our datasets focus on the Solidarity Schools' Network (SSN) in the school year 2018-2019. They include both quantitative (e.g. population of students, teachers or classrooms) and qualitative (e.g. modes of organizing, type of collaborations) dimensions of their operation. The data have been collected as part of the infra-demos research project and aimed at the development of an interactive platform of the SSN. Infra-demos studies, among other, the potential for participatory modes of infrastructure incubated by these self-organised solidarity networks and it follows a participatory action research (PAR) methodology. The data have been collected by interviews with solidarity activists of each school and the platform has been co-designed by the infra-demos and the SSN. The platform has been develope...
The recent financial crisis has disturbed the smooth operation of infrastructural systems and hen... more The recent financial crisis has disturbed the smooth operation of infrastructural systems and hence challenged their role as guarantors of the social contract between citizens and the state. The "infrastructural gap" caused by the financial crisis, the ongoing urban expansion around the globe and the technological changes has turned infrastructures into a contested public domain. The extreme austerity measures and cutbacks in public infrastructure and the subsequent political delegitimizing that occurred in Greece exemplify this phenomenon. Our dataset concerns the mapping of events of socio-political contestation on the various types of infrastructure that occurred in Greece between 2008 – 2017. The data have been collected in the context of the infra-demos project who studies the relationship between infrastructure change, citizens' participation and socio-technical innovation. The list of our sources include datasets from previous ethnographic and social research, n...
This article provides some (self-)reflections on the social solidarity movement in Greece and the... more This article provides some (self-)reflections on the social solidarity movement in Greece and the challenges it faces one year after SYRIZA's government capitulation to the Troika (of creditors) and the signing of a 3rd austerity memorandum. It reads the grassroots solidarity initiatives in the framework of the 'organic crisis" of Western capitalism and as active agents for it and for incubating post-capitalist alternatives. But it also outlines the challenges that they are facing in the new and devastating morally and politically context.
This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solid... more This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solidarity movements in Greece. The collaboration focused on the co-creation of an oral history group within the social clinic, aiming to record and make sense of a collection of digital oral histories from its volunteers and volunteers-doctors. The process aimed to support reflection and shape the future of the clinic’s ongoing social innovation and to transform institutional public health services. Positioning the work of solidarity movement as designing social innovation, the work contributes to CSCW and ‘infrastructuring’ in Participatory Design aspiring to support social activism and social transformation processes. More specifically, through our empirical insights on the process of infrastructuring an oral history group within a social movement; and related insights about their ongoing participatory health service provision—we provide implications for CSCWconcerned with its role in inst...
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2020
and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requi... more and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.
Greek history after the 1967-1974 dictatorship is characterized by a transition from a post‐civil... more Greek history after the 1967-1974 dictatorship is characterized by a transition from a post‐civil war police state to democratic stability, known as "metapolitefsi". This process was to a large extent a reaction to the forceful socialist and communist movement, leading to a deeper integration of the traditional left in the “national backbone” of political life. At the same time, grassroots movements and a dynamic extra‐parliamentary left contested this political mutation and reinforced antagonistic struggles, on some occasions with spectacular results.
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solid... more This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solidarity movements in Greece. The collaboration focused on the co-creation of an oral history group within the social clinic, aiming to record and make sense of a collection of digital oral histories from its volunteers and volunteers-doctors. The process aimed to support reflection and shape the future of the clinic’s ongoing social innovation and to transform institutional public health services. Positioning the work of solidarity movement as designing social innovation, the work contributes to CSCW and ‘infrastructuring’ in Participatory Design aspiring to support social activism and social transformation processes. More specifically, through our empirical insights on the process of infrastructuring an oral history group within a social movement; and related insights about their ongoing participatory health service provision—we provide implications for CSCWconcerned with its role in inst...
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of t... more The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of the Gallery (TPTG) 7 The (revolt) medium is the message: Counter-information and the 2008 revolt Metropolitan Sirens
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of t... more The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of the Gallery (TPTG) 7 The (revolt) medium is the message: Counter-information and the 2008 revolt Metropolitan Sirens
Vacarme, 2018
This article provides insights in the pending potentialities of the grassroots solidarity movemen... more This article provides insights in the pending potentialities of the grassroots solidarity movement in Greece, two years after the reversal of the "OXI" (No) referendum by the government of SYRIZA. It sees the self-organised solidarity beyond the dominant discourse of "a response to austerity". It focuses instead in their constitutive elements and potential to articulate both a public sphere from below and the material socio-economic infrastructures for post-capitalist transformations.
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development, sustainability and infrastr... more In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development, sustainability and infrastructural potential of grassroots solidarity networks that appeared in Greece since 2011. Our datasets focus on the Solidarity Schools' Network (SSN) in the school year 2018-2019. They include both quantitative (e.g. population of students, teachers or classrooms) and qualitative (e.g. modes of organizing, type of collaborations) dimensions of their operation. The data have been collected as part of the infra-demos research project and aimed at the development of an interactive platform of the SSN. Infra-demos studies, among other, the potential for participatory modes of infrastructure incubated by these self-organised solidarity networks and it follows a participatory action research (PAR) methodology. The data have been collected by interviews with solidarity activists of each school and the platform has been co-designed by the infra-demos and the SSN. The platform has been develope...
The recent financial crisis has disturbed the smooth operation of infrastructural systems and hen... more The recent financial crisis has disturbed the smooth operation of infrastructural systems and hence challenged their role as guarantors of the social contract between citizens and the state. The "infrastructural gap" caused by the financial crisis, the ongoing urban expansion around the globe and the technological changes has turned infrastructures into a contested public domain. The extreme austerity measures and cutbacks in public infrastructure and the subsequent political delegitimizing that occurred in Greece exemplify this phenomenon. Our dataset concerns the mapping of events of socio-political contestation on the various types of infrastructure that occurred in Greece between 2008 – 2017. The data have been collected in the context of the infra-demos project who studies the relationship between infrastructure change, citizens' participation and socio-technical innovation. The list of our sources include datasets from previous ethnographic and social research, n...
This article provides some (self-)reflections on the social solidarity movement in Greece and the... more This article provides some (self-)reflections on the social solidarity movement in Greece and the challenges it faces one year after SYRIZA's government capitulation to the Troika (of creditors) and the signing of a 3rd austerity memorandum. It reads the grassroots solidarity initiatives in the framework of the 'organic crisis" of Western capitalism and as active agents for it and for incubating post-capitalist alternatives. But it also outlines the challenges that they are facing in the new and devastating morally and politically context.
This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solid... more This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solidarity movements in Greece. The collaboration focused on the co-creation of an oral history group within the social clinic, aiming to record and make sense of a collection of digital oral histories from its volunteers and volunteers-doctors. The process aimed to support reflection and shape the future of the clinic’s ongoing social innovation and to transform institutional public health services. Positioning the work of solidarity movement as designing social innovation, the work contributes to CSCW and ‘infrastructuring’ in Participatory Design aspiring to support social activism and social transformation processes. More specifically, through our empirical insights on the process of infrastructuring an oral history group within a social movement; and related insights about their ongoing participatory health service provision—we provide implications for CSCWconcerned with its role in inst...
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2020
and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requi... more and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.
Greek history after the 1967-1974 dictatorship is characterized by a transition from a post‐civil... more Greek history after the 1967-1974 dictatorship is characterized by a transition from a post‐civil war police state to democratic stability, known as "metapolitefsi". This process was to a large extent a reaction to the forceful socialist and communist movement, leading to a deeper integration of the traditional left in the “national backbone” of political life. At the same time, grassroots movements and a dynamic extra‐parliamentary left contested this political mutation and reinforced antagonistic struggles, on some occasions with spectacular results.
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solid... more This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solidarity movements in Greece. The collaboration focused on the co-creation of an oral history group within the social clinic, aiming to record and make sense of a collection of digital oral histories from its volunteers and volunteers-doctors. The process aimed to support reflection and shape the future of the clinic’s ongoing social innovation and to transform institutional public health services. Positioning the work of solidarity movement as designing social innovation, the work contributes to CSCW and ‘infrastructuring’ in Participatory Design aspiring to support social activism and social transformation processes. More specifically, through our empirical insights on the process of infrastructuring an oral history group within a social movement; and related insights about their ongoing participatory health service provision—we provide implications for CSCWconcerned with its role in inst...
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of t... more The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of the Gallery (TPTG) 7 The (revolt) medium is the message: Counter-information and the 2008 revolt Metropolitan Sirens
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of t... more The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time The Children of the Gallery (TPTG) 7 The (revolt) medium is the message: Counter-information and the 2008 revolt Metropolitan Sirens