Eleana Yalouri
Biographic Data
| ID | 3644556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleana Yalouri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleana |
| FAMILY NAME | Yalouri |
| SIGNATURE | YALOURI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2865-472X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Tribute and Farewell to Professor Chris Tilley
My first meeting with Chris was in about 1980 at a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) meeting in Cambridge. I was there out of curiosity, to know more about what was buzzing at the time, as a new paradigm emerging from a group of firebrand young archaeologists who had upended the established figures of the scientifically oriented New Archaeology with inspirational references to structuralism and post-structuralism and anthropology as the right s…
The Acropolis
The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over the world. One of the world's most famous heritage sites, it has long been a national monument of Greece and a potent symbol of western civilization. But the Acropolis is typically viewed in the context of 5th-century-BC Athenian society, while the multiple local and international meanings and identities…
‘Difficult’ representations. Visual art engaging with the refugee crisis
This paper discusses visual engagements with the refugee issue in Greece and beyond from 2015 to 2017. Drawing mostly, but not only on visual art works, I investigate the extent to which contemporary art can operate as a means of criticising stereotypes and clichés concerning the refugee crisis and its representations, as well as the extent to which it can intervene and act subversively. Since most of the art projects I discuss here use specific …
The Metaphysics of the Greek Crisis”
During times of uncertainty and ‘crisis’, the religious and the metaphysical may acquire particular resonance and be employed to explain experiences of deprivation and insecurity which cannot be accounted for in rational terms. Using a montage of YouTube videos, the author together with a visual artist have drawn attention to “the metaphysics of the Greek crisis” and the power of its visual cultures. This article gives an account of the history o…
Fanning the Flame
This article highlights some snapshots of the ‘social life' of the 2004 Olympic flame and discusses the transformations of its meanings from the moment of its lighting until its extinction at the closing ceremony, as it circulates through various social contexts and within multiple areas of practice and discourse. By following the flame's oscillation between the tangible and the transcendental, the metaphorical and the metaphysical, the ephemeral…
Sacred pasts, profane performances
We would like to thank all commentators for their engaging responses and their useful and constructive remarks. Their commentaries offer us a second chance to clarify some of the issues which, in the interest of brevity and due to the broad nature of our analysis, we were not able to develop in the paper. At the same time they point to some of the methodological, ethical, and political problems that this kind of analysis faces. Our article was de…
Sacralising the Past
The paper discusses the religious undertones classical Greek heritage is vested with in Greece. Drawing on the argument that nationalism and religion need to be seen as similar cultural systems, we show that classical antiquities have become powerful emotive icons for performances of national memory in the process ot imagining thetoposof the Hellenic nation. This process is open to all social actors and not simply to State bureaucrats and intelle…
Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society
The Great Powers - starting with ancient Imperial Rome and running up to the present - have valued Classical Greek culture as embodying the founding spirit of their own, our own western world. So where does the modern state of Greece stand? It is, more than most nations, encouraged or required to share what might be its particular heritage with a wider world
Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society
The Great Powers - starting with ancient Imperial Rome and running up to the present - have valued Classical Greek culture as embodying the founding spirit of their own, our own western world. So where does the modern state of Greece stand? It is, more than most nations, encouraged or required to share what might be its particular heritage with a wider world
Sacralising the Past
The paper discusses the religious undertones classical Greek heritage is vested with in Greece. Drawing on the argument that nationalism and religion need to be seen as similar cultural systems, we show that classical antiquities have become powerful emotive icons for performances of national memory in the process ot imagining thetoposof the Hellenic nation. This process is open to all social actors and not simply to State bureaucrats and intelle…
The Metaphysics of the Greek Crisis”
During times of uncertainty and ‘crisis’, the religious and the metaphysical may acquire particular resonance and be employed to explain experiences of deprivation and insecurity which cannot be accounted for in rational terms. Using a montage of YouTube videos, the author together with a visual artist have drawn attention to “the metaphysics of the Greek crisis” and the power of its visual cultures. This article gives an account of the history o…
Fanning the Flame
This article highlights some snapshots of the ‘social life' of the 2004 Olympic flame and discusses the transformations of its meanings from the moment of its lighting until its extinction at the closing ceremony, as it circulates through various social contexts and within multiple areas of practice and discourse. By following the flame's oscillation between the tangible and the transcendental, the metaphorical and the metaphysical, the ephemeral…
Sacred pasts, profane performances
We would like to thank all commentators for their engaging responses and their useful and constructive remarks. Their commentaries offer us a second chance to clarify some of the issues which, in the interest of brevity and due to the broad nature of our analysis, we were not able to develop in the paper. At the same time they point to some of the methodological, ethical, and political problems that this kind of analysis faces. Our article was de…
Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society
The Great Powers - starting with ancient Imperial Rome and running up to the present - have valued Classical Greek culture as embodying the founding spirit of their own, our own western world. So where does the modern state of Greece stand? It is, more than most nations, encouraged or required to share what might be its particular heritage with a wider world
Sacred pasts, profane performances
We would like to thank all commentators for their engaging responses and their useful and constructive remarks. Their commentaries offer us a second chance to clarify some of the issues which, in the interest of brevity and due to the broad nature of our analysis, we were not able to develop in the paper. At the same time they point to some of the methodological, ethical, and political problems that this kind of analysis faces. Our article was de…
Sacralising the Past
The paper discusses the religious undertones classical Greek heritage is vested with in Greece. Drawing on the argument that nationalism and religion need to be seen as similar cultural systems, we show that classical antiquities have become powerful emotive icons for performances of national memory in the process ot imagining thetoposof the Hellenic nation. This process is open to all social actors and not simply to State bureaucrats and intelle…
Fanning the Flame
This article highlights some snapshots of the ‘social life' of the 2004 Olympic flame and discusses the transformations of its meanings from the moment of its lighting until its extinction at the closing ceremony, as it circulates through various social contexts and within multiple areas of practice and discourse. By following the flame's oscillation between the tangible and the transcendental, the metaphorical and the metaphysical, the ephemeral…
The Metaphysics of the Greek Crisis”
During times of uncertainty and ‘crisis’, the religious and the metaphysical may acquire particular resonance and be employed to explain experiences of deprivation and insecurity which cannot be accounted for in rational terms. Using a montage of YouTube videos, the author together with a visual artist have drawn attention to “the metaphysics of the Greek crisis” and the power of its visual cultures. This article gives an account of the history o…
‘Difficult’ representations. Visual art engaging with the refugee crisis
This paper discusses visual engagements with the refugee issue in Greece and beyond from 2015 to 2017. Drawing mostly, but not only on visual art works, I investigate the extent to which contemporary art can operate as a means of criticising stereotypes and clichés concerning the refugee crisis and its representations, as well as the extent to which it can intervene and act subversively. Since most of the art projects I discuss here use specific …
The Acropolis
The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over the world. One of the world's most famous heritage sites, it has long been a national monument of Greece and a potent symbol of western civilization. But the Acropolis is typically viewed in the context of 5th-century-BC Athenian society, while the multiple local and international meanings and identities…
A Tribute and Farewell to Professor Chris Tilley
My first meeting with Chris was in about 1980 at a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) meeting in Cambridge. I was there out of curiosity, to know more about what was buzzing at the time, as a new paradigm emerging from a group of firebrand young archaeologists who had upended the established figures of the scientifically oriented New Archaeology with inspirational references to structuralism and post-structuralism and anthropology as the right s…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)