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Socialities of solidarity

Revisiting the gift taboo in times of crises

Bibliographic Data

ID2256604
AuthorsK Rozakou (0000-0003-4742-1710, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume24
Issue2
Pages185-199
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-0282 • E-ISSN: 1469-8676
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1469-8676.12305
OpenAlexW2412294847
LanguageEN
Citations received113
References cited33

This article addresses solidarity and the opening of social spaces in the relations between refugees and residents of Greece who try to help them. 'Socialities of solidarity' materialise alternative worldviews; they are loci for the production of lateral relationships; places inhabited by the prospects that derive from the political production of sociality. The article discusses the 'gift taboo', dominant in the pre-crisis era, that reflects the risks of giving to the formation of horizontal relationships. In the contemporary 'European refugee crisis, and other crises, the gift taboo has collapsed, posing challenges to the egalitarian visions of sociality

Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociality · Sociology · Solidarity · Taboo · Vision · Anthropology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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