Nikos Potamianos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5885944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikos Potamianos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikos |
| FAMILY NAME | Potamianos |
| SIGNATURE | POTAMIANOS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | FORTH Institute of Mediterranean Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6960-9813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Clean Monday in Athens, 1800–1940
This article discusses the transformations of the Clean Monday festival and its multiple meanings in Athens over a century and a half in the context of the growth of the city, the advance of modernity, the deepening of commodity relations, and secularization. The first day of the Lenten fast for Orthodox Christians formed part of carnival in terms of revelries, obscenity, and "magical thinking." Moreover, Clean Monday in Athens was a major open-a…
Moral Economy
This article attempts to define the concept of moral economy through a series of distinctions: between moral economy and the wider field in which morality and economy meet; between moral economy in a narrow sense and in a broad sense; and between historical moral economy and more modern forms. I define moral economy in the narrow sense as perceptions about fairness, the limits of exploitation, and the reciprocities that should govern social relat…
Carnival and urban space in Athens, 1834–1940
This article explores the spatial dimensions of Athens' carnival and their change in the course of a century. It is based on two polarities: first, that of the old city and the new city, which was related to the contrast between traditional and modern culture in the celebration of carnival. Both the old city and traditional culture were increasingly undervalued and denounced until the inter-war years, when nostalgia for old places and practices d…
Do shopkeepers have their own moral economy? Profiteering, unfair competition and the black market in Greece, 1916–1945
Moral economy has been conceived by E.P. Thompson as being inextricably linked to popular reactions to the emergence of the free market and the government policies promoting it. How useful can the concept be in the study of social groups that form an organic part of the capitalist market and benefit from its expansion – while simultaneously being part of the popular classes? In focusing on the small shopkeeper, can we identify elements of moral e…
Labour History in the Semi-periphery
This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating the transformations of labour and labour relations that these areas underwent in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The subjects studied include industrial labour relations in Southern Europe; labour on the sea and in the shipyards of the Mediterranean; small enterprises and small land ownership in relation to labour; formal and informal…
Small Business in Distress
The character of postwar small business associations in Greece was indelibly stamped by the authoritarian democracy that was constructed between 1945 and 1967. The integration of Greece in the process of European economic unification in the early 1960s was the fuse that sparked the accumulated frustrations into strong collective action, leading some tradesmen and artisans to question the political status quo and identify with centrist and left wi…
Populism in Greece? Right, Left, and Laclau’s “Jacobinism” in the Years of the Goudi Coup, 1908–1910
Research Article| July 01 2020 Populism in Greece? Right, Left, and Laclau’s “Jacobinism” in the Years of the Goudi Coup, 1908–1910 Nikos Potamianos Nikos Potamianos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2020) 14 (2): 127–156. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.14.2.0127 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nikos Potamianos; Popu…
Internationalism and Anti-War Mobilization in Greece, 1912–1924
One of the ways in which the Bolshevik paradigm influenced socialist politics in Greece was through the dissemination of anti-nationalist and anti-war theses. An important part of the struggle inside the Socialist Workers’ Party (SEKE) concerning its ‘bolshevization’ revolved around the various dimensions of the national question. This paper gives an account of the development of internationalism in Greece during the ‘war decade’, and illustrates…
Regulation and the retailing community
This paper discusses the process of establishing the Sunday holiday in Greek retailing, with particular emphasis on the strategies developed by political actors and, especially, by the social subjects involved in the conflicts over this issue. More specifically, the paper addresses three key issues: firstly, the failure of the retailing community to regulate itself as competition in the capitalist market proved to be a condition which the initiat…
Moral Economy? Popular Demands and State Intervention in the Struggle over Anti-Profiteering Laws in Greece 1914-1925
This article examines the popular mobilization against high prices in Greece during World War I and Greco-Turkish war, and the legislation against profiteering which was adopted in the context of the rising state intervention in the economy. It focuses on the workers’ action, which has been argued that was informed by perceptions of moral economy. I argue that we should keep a narrow definition of moral economy, in which necessary is the presence…
Do shopkeepers have their own moral economy? Profiteering, unfair competition and the black market in Greece, 1916–1945
Moral economy has been conceived by E.P. Thompson as being inextricably linked to popular reactions to the emergence of the free market and the government policies promoting it. How useful can the concept be in the study of social groups that form an organic part of the capitalist market and benefit from its expansion – while simultaneously being part of the popular classes? In focusing on the small shopkeeper, can we identify elements of moral e…
Moral Economy? Popular Demands and State Intervention in the Struggle over Anti-Profiteering Laws in Greece 1914-1925
This article examines the popular mobilization against high prices in Greece during World War I and Greco-Turkish war, and the legislation against profiteering which was adopted in the context of the rising state intervention in the economy. It focuses on the workers’ action, which has been argued that was informed by perceptions of moral economy. I argue that we should keep a narrow definition of moral economy, in which necessary is the presence…
Regulation and the retailing community
This paper discusses the process of establishing the Sunday holiday in Greek retailing, with particular emphasis on the strategies developed by political actors and, especially, by the social subjects involved in the conflicts over this issue. More specifically, the paper addresses three key issues: firstly, the failure of the retailing community to regulate itself as competition in the capitalist market proved to be a condition which the initiat…
Internationalism and Anti-War Mobilization in Greece, 1912–1924
One of the ways in which the Bolshevik paradigm influenced socialist politics in Greece was through the dissemination of anti-nationalist and anti-war theses. An important part of the struggle inside the Socialist Workers’ Party (SEKE) concerning its ‘bolshevization’ revolved around the various dimensions of the national question. This paper gives an account of the development of internationalism in Greece during the ‘war decade’, and illustrates…
Labour History in the Semi-periphery
This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating the transformations of labour and labour relations that these areas underwent in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The subjects studied include industrial labour relations in Southern Europe; labour on the sea and in the shipyards of the Mediterranean; small enterprises and small land ownership in relation to labour; formal and informal…
Small Business in Distress
The character of postwar small business associations in Greece was indelibly stamped by the authoritarian democracy that was constructed between 1945 and 1967. The integration of Greece in the process of European economic unification in the early 1960s was the fuse that sparked the accumulated frustrations into strong collective action, leading some tradesmen and artisans to question the political status quo and identify with centrist and left wi…
Populism in Greece? Right, Left, and Laclau’s “Jacobinism” in the Years of the Goudi Coup, 1908–1910
Research Article| July 01 2020 Populism in Greece? Right, Left, and Laclau’s “Jacobinism” in the Years of the Goudi Coup, 1908–1910 Nikos Potamianos Nikos Potamianos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2020) 14 (2): 127–156. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.14.2.0127 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nikos Potamianos; Popu…
Do shopkeepers have their own moral economy? Profiteering, unfair competition and the black market in Greece, 1916–1945
Moral economy has been conceived by E.P. Thompson as being inextricably linked to popular reactions to the emergence of the free market and the government policies promoting it. How useful can the concept be in the study of social groups that form an organic part of the capitalist market and benefit from its expansion – while simultaneously being part of the popular classes? In focusing on the small shopkeeper, can we identify elements of moral e…
Carnival and urban space in Athens, 1834–1940
This article explores the spatial dimensions of Athens' carnival and their change in the course of a century. It is based on two polarities: first, that of the old city and the new city, which was related to the contrast between traditional and modern culture in the celebration of carnival. Both the old city and traditional culture were increasingly undervalued and denounced until the inter-war years, when nostalgia for old places and practices d…
Clean Monday in Athens, 1800–1940
This article discusses the transformations of the Clean Monday festival and its multiple meanings in Athens over a century and a half in the context of the growth of the city, the advance of modernity, the deepening of commodity relations, and secularization. The first day of the Lenten fast for Orthodox Christians formed part of carnival in terms of revelries, obscenity, and "magical thinking." Moreover, Clean Monday in Athens was a major open-a…
Moral Economy
This article attempts to define the concept of moral economy through a series of distinctions: between moral economy and the wider field in which morality and economy meet; between moral economy in a narrow sense and in a broad sense; and between historical moral economy and more modern forms. I define moral economy in the narrow sense as perceptions about fairness, the limits of exploitation, and the reciprocities that should govern social relat…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economy (3 works)