Radical Resilience : : Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility / / Othon Alexandrakis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Alexandrakis, Othon,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 6 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Disintegrations and Intensifications --; 1. Everyday, Illegible: How Being a Radical Became a Problem --; 2. Becoming Lost: Why Romani Boys Are Hanging Out with Anarchists --; 3. Ordinary Ghosting: How to Yield Stability from Chaos --; 4. Common Matters: How Awkwardness May Create Possibility --; 5. Radical Possibility: Why Some Solidarians Believe Solidarity Doesn’t Matter --; Epilogue --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501761461; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992960; 9783110992939
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501761461
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Othon Alexandrakis.

Radical Resilience relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies and human disasters of successive national crises in Greece since 2010. Drawing on eight years of fieldwork, Othon Alexandrakis examines the effects of injury, erosion and upheaval on individuals already pushed beyond their limits but holding on against all odds. Through analysis of everyday scenes across different social locations in the city, he documents the often slow, difficult work of picking up the pieces of one's life and moving them around, and the worlds that fade and the ones that become visible in the process. He shares the stories of a disillusioned anarchist organizer, an exhausted nurse helping a father searching for his lost daughter, a misunderstood Romani man rejected by his friends and family, an undocumented migrant who discovers hope in the trash—stories of individuals finding solace and possibility within, with, and against the tragedies of their lives. Alexandrakis shows how these stories lead to a potentially transformative coming to resilience. In Radical Resilience, Alexandrakis traces the bare edges of radical possibility from within the efforts of those continuing on beyond their limits.