Essays about: "Greek Civil War"
Found 4 essays containing the words Greek Civil War.
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1. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE
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2. Making Room for the Holocaust? : Entangled Memory Regimes and Polarized Contestation about the Greek 1940s in Thessaloniki
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : The present thesis offers a new perspective on Holocaust memory in Greece by examining the ways in which divergent mnemonic representations about the Greek 1940s, as evidenced in polarized public contestation, influence the position of Holocaust in contemporary Greek collective memory. Adopting a micro-level case-study approach, the thesis focuses on the process of renaming a street in Salonika (or Thessaloniki), by examining public discourses around the issue. READ MORE
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3. The power of memory and the political dialogue in Greece : The rise of radicalism
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : This study explores the contexts in which the conflict evolved and how history was perceived, narrated and used by institutions, communities and individuals who sought to influence public opinion and policymakers. The theoretical point of departure is the concept of collective memory, defined as the totality of discourses through which a society makes sense of itself, the present and the future through the interpretation of the past. READ MORE
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4. Top-down reconciliation and the role of time : The case of the Greek Civil War
University essay from Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : Despite the vast research by both international and Greek academics underlining the reconciliatory policies and reforms that the Greek political leadership implemented between theyears 1974 and 1989, little is stated on a grassroots level by the ex-combatants of the Greek Civilwar about these policies with regards to their reconciliatory effects, as well as the need for their implementation twenty years after the end of the conflict (1949). The overall objective of this research is to evaluate if the series of the policies implemented by the Greek government had actually a reconciliatory effect on the active participants of the Civil war, as well as an impact on the Greek society as a whole. READ MORE