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Research paper thumbnail of Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a North Aegean Island: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks, and Re-Imagined Communities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2013

«Mαζί και στο λά θος» ('Together even when it fails')-Activist and union leader, Lemnos, July 201... more «Mαζί και στο λά θος» ('Together even when it fails')-Activist and union leader, Lemnos, July 2012 Cultural intimacy, that 'fellowship of the flawed' (Byrne 2011; Herzfeld 1997, 2005, 2009), elucidates a framework for the analysis of how hegemonic discourses of national identity effectively coerce, or fail to coerce, citizens. Originally emerging from Greek ethnographic contexts, this framework focused the anthropological lens not on publically performed consensus, but on silent-or silenced-dissent vis-à-vis hegemonic national discourse about one, glorified, 'Greek Past' and the behaviours and attitudes prescribed for those who claim it as their 'National Heritage' in the present. Denoting continuity of descent from that singular past, heritage dominates national discourse in Modern Greece (e.g. Damaskos and

Research paper thumbnail of Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a North Aegean Island: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks and Re-Imagined Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D. and F. Papavasiliou, 2013, Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a North Aegean Island: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks, and Re-Imagined Communities, Studies In Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol 13, Issue 3, 523-529.

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D. and M. Roumpou, 2011, Storage Technologies as Embedded Social Practices: Studying Pithos Storage in Prehistoric Northern Greece. In Brysbaert, A. (ed.) Tracing Social Networks Through Studying Technologies: A Diachronical Perspective from the Aegean. Routledge, NY

Research paper thumbnail of Food Storage in Prehistoric Northern Greece: Interrogating Complexity at the Margins of the 'Mycenaean World'

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Jan 1, 2009

Despite systematic archaeological research since the mid-1970s, developments in prehistoric north... more Despite systematic archaeological research since the mid-1970s, developments in prehistoric northern Greece are not well understood. The paper focuses on the Late Bronze Age and the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition (c. 1700/1500–1100/1000 BC). This is often ...

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D., Andreou St., K. Kotsakis, 2006, New evidence from Toumba Thessalonikis: Reconsidering storage areas and storage practices. Archaeological Research in Macedonia and Thrace 19: 157-171.

Research paper thumbnail of Reflections on the'Aegean'and Its Prehistory: Present Routes and Future Destinations

… Round the Pond: Reflection on Aegean …, Jan 1, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline

Research paper thumbnail of The Neolithic settlement of Knossos: New light on an old picture

Knossos: Palace, City, State. …, Jan 1, 2000

REVIEWS AND BLOGS by Despina Margomenou

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D. 2012 (05/16), Living Greeks and Those Long Dead Ones: Greek Heritage in Times of Crisis. Center for European Studies, Eyes on Europe

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D. 2012 (08/23) Περί «φυλετικών διακρίσεων» και ρατσισμού/ About racial discrimination and racism.

Research paper thumbnail of Μαργωμένου, Δ. 2011, 2011 Βέβηλα Θραύσματα; Μια Αρχαιολογική Ανάγνωση για το «Βομβιστή του Παρθενώνα», (Blasphemous Ruins?: An Archaeological Reading for the “Parthenon Bomber”) Athens Review of Books April, 2011.

Research paper thumbnail of Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a North Aegean Island: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks, and Re-Imagined Communities

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2013

«Mαζί και στο λά θος» ('Together even when it fails')-Activist and union leader, Lemnos, July 201... more «Mαζί και στο λά θος» ('Together even when it fails')-Activist and union leader, Lemnos, July 2012 Cultural intimacy, that 'fellowship of the flawed' (Byrne 2011; Herzfeld 1997, 2005, 2009), elucidates a framework for the analysis of how hegemonic discourses of national identity effectively coerce, or fail to coerce, citizens. Originally emerging from Greek ethnographic contexts, this framework focused the anthropological lens not on publically performed consensus, but on silent-or silenced-dissent vis-à-vis hegemonic national discourse about one, glorified, 'Greek Past' and the behaviours and attitudes prescribed for those who claim it as their 'National Heritage' in the present. Denoting continuity of descent from that singular past, heritage dominates national discourse in Modern Greece (e.g. Damaskos and

Research paper thumbnail of Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a North Aegean Island: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks and Re-Imagined Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D. and F. Papavasiliou, 2013, Times of Crisis and Seeds of New Intimacies on a North Aegean Island: Activism, Alternative Exchange Networks, and Re-Imagined Communities, Studies In Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol 13, Issue 3, 523-529.

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D. and M. Roumpou, 2011, Storage Technologies as Embedded Social Practices: Studying Pithos Storage in Prehistoric Northern Greece. In Brysbaert, A. (ed.) Tracing Social Networks Through Studying Technologies: A Diachronical Perspective from the Aegean. Routledge, NY

Research paper thumbnail of Food Storage in Prehistoric Northern Greece: Interrogating Complexity at the Margins of the 'Mycenaean World'

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Jan 1, 2009

Despite systematic archaeological research since the mid-1970s, developments in prehistoric north... more Despite systematic archaeological research since the mid-1970s, developments in prehistoric northern Greece are not well understood. The paper focuses on the Late Bronze Age and the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition (c. 1700/1500–1100/1000 BC). This is often ...

Research paper thumbnail of Margomenou, D., Andreou St., K. Kotsakis, 2006, New evidence from Toumba Thessalonikis: Reconsidering storage areas and storage practices. Archaeological Research in Macedonia and Thrace 19: 157-171.

Research paper thumbnail of Reflections on the'Aegean'and Its Prehistory: Present Routes and Future Destinations

… Round the Pond: Reflection on Aegean …, Jan 1, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline

Research paper thumbnail of The Neolithic settlement of Knossos: New light on an old picture

Knossos: Palace, City, State. …, Jan 1, 2000

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