Reassembling the Rural

Socio-Economic Dynamics, Inequalities and Resilience in Crisis-Stricken Rural Greece

Bibliographic Data

ID4446355
AuthorsApostolos G Papadopoulos (0000-0003-2821-3529, Department of Geography Harokopio University 70, El. Venizelou Street 17671 Kallithea Athens Greece, corresponding author), Loukia‐maria Fratsea (0000-0003-3064-4221, Department of Geography Harokopio University 70, El. Venizelou Street 17671 Kallithea Athens Greece, corresponding author), Panos Karanikolas (0000-0001-8272-3584, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Agricultural University of Athens 75, Iera Odos Street 118 55 Athens Greece, corresponding author), Pavlos Karanikolas, Stavros Zografaki, Stavros Zografakis (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Agricultural University of Athens 75, Iera Odos Street 118 55 Athens Greece, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume59
Issue3
Pages474-493
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12252
OpenAlexW2943296555
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited43

Rural areas are places where various social groups live either permanently or seasonally. The mobilities and immobilities of these groups are related to their differential resources. The vast impact of the financial crisis on Greece relates to the major decline of its GDP and enormous increase in unemployment. The article aims to shed light on the complexities of social marginalisation and social exclusion in rural Greece, but also, and more importantly, to theorise the coping mechanisms and strategies by those affected and build upon the experiences of rural areas during the prolonged economic crisis. Population dynamics and the various social and spatial mobilities in rural areas provide the baseline for tracing rural complexities and theorising the emergent coping strategies. The concepts of rural cosmopolitanism and resilience are used to unpack the complexities of marginalisation and social exclusion in rural Greece. A brief reference to the statistical data resolves the apparent controversies related to the changing regional and local geography of poverty and social exclusion in Greece during the crisis. The more focused empirical findings, illustrated in the form of two island areas, illustrate the various coping mechanisms and strategies that are emerging in rural Greece

Coping (psychology) · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Population · Poverty · Psychological resilience · Rural area · Social exclusion · Sociology · Unemployment · Demography · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Regional resilience and development · Rural development and sustainability

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