European Funds and the Hermeneutics of the Capitalist Crisis
Insights from within the Greek State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2290653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dimitrios Gkintidis (0000-0002-1219-3810, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-159 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-6976 • E-ISSN: 1555-2934 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/plar.12245 |
| OpenAlex | W2806040606 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
In this article, I seek to explore the political and epistemological implications of European Union developmental funds in settings of policymaking in Greece. Building on fieldwork with specialized technocrats in Athens and with political personnel in Evros, I initially posit that the discourse on European funds has functioned as a recurrent argument for the justification of a coherent liberal idealist paradigm starting in the 1980s. Notwithstanding the ideological usage of European funds, I suggest that its increasing relevance in the practices and worldview of these social agents also pertains to a broader relocation of political and analytical focus onto the ethical conduct and qualitative features of dominated classes. Most evidently, the recent manifestation of the capitalist crisis in Greece reactualized the precept of moral and cultural introspection as well as its interrelation with the discourse of past benefaction. Ιn this sense, the recent crisis also made evident the pertinence of Michel Foucault's "hermeneutics of the self" to understand the delineation of class hegemony in capitalism. I argue that the discourse of European funds has been conducive to the consolidation of the "hermeneutics of the self" as an overarching political imperative in Greek society over the last decades
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |