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Other Publications of interest by members of the Centre
2009
Herzfeld, M. (2009) Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.
Books with relevance to Greece by members of the Centre
Cheliotis, L. K. (ed.) (2012) The Arts of Imprisonment: Control, Resistance and Empowerment. Aldershot: Ashgate.
The arts –spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres– constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness. Perhaps this is especially so in the case of imprisonment: its nature, its functions, and the ways in which these register in public perceptions and desires, have historically and to some extent inherently been intertwined with the arts. But the products of this intertwinement have by no means been constant or uniform. Indeed, just as exploring imprisonment and its public meanings through the lens of the arts may reveal hitherto obscured instances of social control within or outside prisons, so too it may uncover a rich and possibly inspirational archive of resistance to them. This edited collection sheds light both on state use of the arts for the purposes of controlling prisoners and the broader public, and the use made of the arts by prisoners and portions of the broader public as tools of resistance to penal states. The book also includes a number of chapters that address arts-in-prisons programmes, making distinctive contributions to the literature on their philosophy, formation, operation, effectiveness, and research evaluation, as well as taking care to explore the politics surrounding and underpinning these multiple themes.
Contributors (in alphabetical order): Michelle Brown, W. B. Carnochan, Eamonn Carrabine, Leonidas Cheliotis, Mary Cohen, Sarah Colvin, Alexandra Cox, andré douglas pond cummings, Léon Digard, Thomas Fahy, Stathis Gauntlett, Loraine Gelsthorpe, David Gussak, Yvonne Jewkes, Robert Johnson, Alison Liebling, Mike Nellis, Vincenzo Ruggiero, Aylwyn Walsh, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams.
Including a contribution with direct reference to Greece:
The arts –spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres– constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness. Perhaps this is especially so in the case of imprisonment: its nature, its functions, and the ways in which these register in public perceptions and desires, have historically and to some extent inherently been intertwined with the arts. But the products of this intertwinement have by no means been constant or uniform. Indeed, just as exploring imprisonment and its public meanings through the lens of the arts may reveal hitherto obscured instances of social control within or outside prisons, so too it may uncover a rich and possibly inspirational archive of resistance to them. This edited collection sheds light both on state use of the arts for the purposes of controlling prisoners and the broader public, and the use made of the arts by prisoners and portions of the broader public as tools of resistance to penal states. The book also includes a number of chapters that address arts-in-prisons programmes, making distinctive contributions to the literature on their philosophy, formation, operation, effectiveness, and research evaluation, as well as taking care to explore the politics surrounding and underpinning these multiple themes.
Contributors (in alphabetical order): Michelle Brown, W. B. Carnochan, Eamonn Carrabine, Leonidas Cheliotis, Mary Cohen, Sarah Colvin, Alexandra Cox, andré douglas pond cummings, Léon Digard, Thomas Fahy, Stathis Gauntlett, Loraine Gelsthorpe, David Gussak, Yvonne Jewkes, Robert Johnson, Alison Liebling, Mike Nellis, Vincenzo Ruggiero, Aylwyn Walsh, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams.
Including a contribution with direct reference to Greece:
- Gauntlett, S. '"The Haircut's On the House": Rebetika Songs and Greek Prisons'
2011
Cheliotis, L. K. and Xenakis, S. (eds) (2011) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives (Oxford: Peter Lang AG).
This book constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative single work on crime and punishment in contemporary Greece. Bringing together empirical and theoretical work, it sheds light on a wide array of themes, from trends in the quantity and nature of crime, to attitudes towards crime and criminal justice, to criminal justice policies and practices. Primary chapters are followed by discussant pieces from specialists of jurisdictions elsewhere in Europe and North America, a format designed to highlight the mutual relevance of criminological research on Greece and that addressing other contexts internationally.
Tzanelli, R. (2011) Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters': Rethinking Civility. London: Routledge.
Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the blockbuster Mamma Mia! (2008), the book explores how national identity - once shaped by political, cultural and religious practices - can now be reduced to little more than an ideal, created and sold globally by Western industries such as tourism and film. Tzanelli argues how the film encouraged the development of regional competitions that further enhanced the emotive potential of a Greek nationalist discourse that projects the blame for regional favouritism onto Western agents and the nation-state itself. It also takes into consideration the historical background of this controversy, which finds roots in the religious heritage of the South-eastern Mediterranean region – in particular, the notions of Byzantine Christianity which the Greeks used to set against the Islamic traditions of their Ottoman colonisers to affirm their European civility.
2010
Cheliotis, L. K. (ed.) (2010) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cheliotis, L. K. (ed.) (2010) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Whilst the condition of a damaged ethical life has received due scholarly attention to date, only rarely is resistance to it conceived as an actual possibility with the potential of real effects on a macro-social scale. This is not just a curious lacuna in the literature. To ignore or miss concrete possibilities or even instances of resistance is to reinforce the apparent naturalness and inevitability of structures of injustice. The aim of this edited collection is to help address this epistemological neglect, exploring the multiplicity of motives, presuppositions, sites, ways, and consequences of acts of resistance. As shown in the ensuing contributions, resistance can be recalcitrant or transformative in its aims, discursive or physical in its means, and local or generalized in its loci. If there is a single argument that can be distilled, it is that the emergence of progressive resistance entails the incessant rational critique of so-styled 'common sense' and prevalent ethical claims–a process which could be called 'the banality of good'.
Contributors (in alphabetical order): Andrea Brighenti, Leonidas Cheliotis, Lilie Chouliaraki, Spiros Gangas, Richard Kearney, Alison Liebling, John O'Neill, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Justice Tankebe, Ezra Tessler, Sappho Xenakis.
Including contributions with direct reference to Greece:
Contributors (in alphabetical order): Andrea Brighenti, Leonidas Cheliotis, Lilie Chouliaraki, Spiros Gangas, Richard Kearney, Alison Liebling, John O'Neill, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Justice Tankebe, Ezra Tessler, Sappho Xenakis.
Including contributions with direct reference to Greece:
- Chouliaraki, L. 'Acting on Vulnerable Others: Ethical Agency in Media Discourse'
- Xenakis, S. 'Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of "Balkanist" Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence against "The West"'
2009
Tzanelli, R. (2009) The 'Greece' of Britain and the 'Britain' of Greece: Performance, Stereotypes, Expectations and Intermediaries in 'Neohellenic' and Victorian Narratives (1864-1881). Saarbrücken:VDM (Verlag Dr Müller).
Tzanelli, R. (2009) The 'Greece' of Britain and the 'Britain' of Greece: Performance, Stereotypes, Expectations and Intermediaries in 'Neohellenic' and Victorian Narratives (1864-1881). Saarbrücken:VDM (Verlag Dr Müller).
The role Western philhellenism played in the production of modern Greek identity has been the object of extensive research. Scholars focused on the importance Hellenic culture acquired in European discourses of modernity and the maintenance of national and imperial self-images in the West. The present book re-conceptualises the historical emergence of such discursive frameworks as ‘gatekeepers’ of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic projects. The specific context it explores is that of Anglo-Greek cultural exchange in the third quarter of the nineteenth century (1864-1881). It is argued that Greece’s ambiguous attitude toward British demands for Greek modernisation, and British frustration originating in modern Greek irredentism and internal disorder, define the frame of resistance. Constant miscommunication between Greeks and Britons made co-operation impossible and assisted in the production of Greek counter-hegemony. The specific path of Greek modernisation, state, and nation-formation was developed in several key political/discursive conflicts around: (i) Crime and disorder, (ii) the rationalisation of historical past, and (iii) the nationalist project of the ‘Great Idea’.
Journal Αrticles with relevance to Greece by members of the Centre
Cheliotis, L. K. (2022) 'Depression and Repression: Global Capitalism, Economic Crisis and Penal Politics in Interwar Greece', European Journal of Criminology 19(3): 419-441.
Xenakis, S. (2021) 'Trouble with the outlaws: Bandits, the state, and political legitimacy in Greece over the longue durée', Journal of Historical Sociology 34(3): 504-516.
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2021) 'What's Left? Political Orientation, Economic Conditions, and Incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led Government', European Journal of Criminology 18(1): 74-100.
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2018) 'Carceral Moderation and the Janus Face of International Pressure: A Long View of Greece's Engagement with the European Convention of Human Rights', Crime, Law and Social Change 70(1): 37-56.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2017) 'Punitive Inclusion: The Political Economy of Irregular Migration in the Margins of Europe', European Journal of Criminology 14(1): 78-99. [Press release]
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2016) 'Punishment and Political Systems: State Punitiveness in Post-Dictatorial Greece', Punishment & Society 18(3): 268-300. [Press release]
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2016) '"Glocal" Disorder: Causes, Conduct and Consequences of the 2008 Greek Unrest', European Journal of Criminology 13(5): 639-656.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2014) 'Order through Honour: Masculinity and the Use of Temporary Release in a Greek Prison', South Atlantic Quarterly 113(3): 529-545.
Xenakis, S. (2013) ‘Normative hybridity in contemporary Greece: Beyond “modernisers” and “underdogs” in socio-political discourse and practice’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 31(2): 171-192.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2013) 'Behind the Veil of Philoxenia: The Politics of Immigration Detention in Greece', European Journal of Criminology 10(6): 725-745.
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) 'Crime and Economic Downturn: The Complexity of Crime and Crime Politics in Greece since 2009', British Journal of Criminology 53(5): 719-745.
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) 'Spaces of Contestation: Challenges, Actors and Expertise in the Management of Urban Security in Greece', European Journal of Criminology 10(3): 297-313.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2012) 'Suffering at the Hands of the State: Conditions of Imprisonment and Prisoner Health in Contemporary Greece', European Journal of Criminology 9(1): 3-22.
Xenakis, S. (2012) ‘A new dawn? Change and continuity in political violence in Greece’, Terrorism and Political Violence 24(3): 437-464.
Xenakis, S. (2011) ‘Το Οργανωμένο Έγκλημα στην Ελλάδα: Η Οριοθέτηση και Αξιολόγηση της Απειλής’ [‘Organised Crime in Greece: Defining and Assessing the Threat’], Εφαρμογές Δημοσίου Δικαίου 24(2): 137-145.
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2010) 'What’s Neoliberalism Got to Do With It? Towards a Political Economy of Punishment in Greece', Criminology & Criminal Justice 10(4): 353-373.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2006) 'Demystifying Risk Management: A Process Evaluation of the Prisoners' Home Leave Scheme in Greece', Criminology & Criminal Justice 6(2): 163-195.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2005) 'The Prison Furlough Programme in Greece: Findings from a Research Project in the Male Prison of Korydallos', Punishment & Society 7(2): 201-215.
Xenakis, S. (2004) ‘International norm diffusion and organised crime policy: The case of Greece’, Global Crime 6(3-4): 345-373.
Xenakis, S. (2021) 'Trouble with the outlaws: Bandits, the state, and political legitimacy in Greece over the longue durée', Journal of Historical Sociology 34(3): 504-516.
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2021) 'What's Left? Political Orientation, Economic Conditions, and Incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led Government', European Journal of Criminology 18(1): 74-100.
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2018) 'Carceral Moderation and the Janus Face of International Pressure: A Long View of Greece's Engagement with the European Convention of Human Rights', Crime, Law and Social Change 70(1): 37-56.
- Abridged version: 'International Pressure and Carceral Moderation: Greece and the European Convention of Human Rights', in G. Cliquennois (ed.) (2018) The Monitoring of Penal Policies in Europe, pp. 89-103. London: Routledge.
- Translated into Spanish as: 'Moderación carcelaria y la cara de Jano de la presión internacional. Una larga reseña sobre el involucramiento de Grecia en la convención europea de Derechos Humanos', Unidad Sociológica (Buenos Aires) Año 4, N. 13-14 (2019): 6-22.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2017) 'Punitive Inclusion: The Political Economy of Irregular Migration in the Margins of Europe', European Journal of Criminology 14(1): 78-99. [Press release]
- Abridged and revised version: ‘Inclusion's Dark Side: The Political Economy of Irregular Migration in Greece', in D. Melossi, M. Sozzo and J. Á. García Brandariz (eds) (2018) The Political Economy of Punishment Today: Visions, Debates and Challenges, pp. 205-217. London: Routledge.
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2016) 'Punishment and Political Systems: State Punitiveness in Post-Dictatorial Greece', Punishment & Society 18(3): 268-300. [Press release]
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2016) '"Glocal" Disorder: Causes, Conduct and Consequences of the 2008 Greek Unrest', European Journal of Criminology 13(5): 639-656.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2014) 'Order through Honour: Masculinity and the Use of Temporary Release in a Greek Prison', South Atlantic Quarterly 113(3): 529-545.
- Abridged version: 'Managing "Administrative Inconvenience": The Political Economy of Temporary Release', Prison Service Journal 217(January 2015): 16-20.
Xenakis, S. (2013) ‘Normative hybridity in contemporary Greece: Beyond “modernisers” and “underdogs” in socio-political discourse and practice’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 31(2): 171-192.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2013) 'Behind the Veil of Philoxenia: The Politics of Immigration Detention in Greece', European Journal of Criminology 10(6): 725-745.
- Translated into Spanish as: 'Detrás del velo de la philoxenia: las políticas de detención de inmigrantes en Grecia', Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminologia (Buenos Aires) No. 1 (2014): 230-248.
- Extended and updated version: 'Seeing like a Small State: Globalisation and the Politics of Immigration Detention in the Margins of Europe', in V. Mitsilegas, P. Alldridge and L. K. Cheliotis (eds) (2015) Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives, pp. 113-134. Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury.
- Excerpt published as: 'Immigration Detention and State Denial in Crisis-hit Greece', The Greek Star (Weekly Greek-American newspaper), 24 September 2013. Also published on openDemocracy (29 August 2013).
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) 'Crime and Economic Downturn: The Complexity of Crime and Crime Politics in Greece since 2009', British Journal of Criminology 53(5): 719-745.
- Selected for inclusion in the inaugural open access Virtual Issue of the British Journal of Criminology (2014) on 'Global Criminology? Prospects and Challenges'.
- Translated into Spanish as: 'E l delito frente a la recesión económica: La complejidad del delito y las políticas criminales en Grecia desde el año 2009', Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminologia (Buenos Aires) No. 3 (2014): 77-98.
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) 'Spaces of Contestation: Challenges, Actors and Expertise in the Management of Urban Security in Greece', European Journal of Criminology 10(3): 297-313.
- Translated into Spanish as: 'Espacios de contestación: desafios, actores y expertise en la administración de la seguridad urbana en Grecia', Unidad Sociológica (Buenos Aires) Año 3, N. 9 (2017): 20-32.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2012) 'Suffering at the Hands of the State: Conditions of Imprisonment and Prisoner Health in Contemporary Greece', European Journal of Criminology 9(1): 3-22.
Xenakis, S. (2012) ‘A new dawn? Change and continuity in political violence in Greece’, Terrorism and Political Violence 24(3): 437-464.
Xenakis, S. (2011) ‘Το Οργανωμένο Έγκλημα στην Ελλάδα: Η Οριοθέτηση και Αξιολόγηση της Απειλής’ [‘Organised Crime in Greece: Defining and Assessing the Threat’], Εφαρμογές Δημοσίου Δικαίου 24(2): 137-145.
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2010) 'What’s Neoliberalism Got to Do With It? Towards a Political Economy of Punishment in Greece', Criminology & Criminal Justice 10(4): 353-373.
- Translated into Spanish as: '¿Qué tiene que ver el neoliberalismo con esto? Hacia una economía política del castigo en Grecia', in I. González Sánchez (ed.) (2012) Cárcel y gueto: Aproximaciones al trabajo de Loïc Wacquant [Prison and Ghetto: Approaches to the Work of Loïc Wacquant], pp. 365-400. Madrid: Dykinson.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2006) 'Demystifying Risk Management: A Process Evaluation of the Prisoners' Home Leave Scheme in Greece', Criminology & Criminal Justice 6(2): 163-195.
Cheliotis, L. K. (2005) 'The Prison Furlough Programme in Greece: Findings from a Research Project in the Male Prison of Korydallos', Punishment & Society 7(2): 201-215.
Xenakis, S. (2004) ‘International norm diffusion and organised crime policy: The case of Greece’, Global Crime 6(3-4): 345-373.
Book Chapters with relevance to Greece by members of the Centre
2010
- Tzanelli, R. (2010) 'Islamophobia and Hellenophilia: Greek Myths of Post-Colonial Europe', in A. Vakil and S. Sayyid (eds) Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives, pp. 213-230. London: Hurst & Co.
- Herzfeld, M. (2010) 'Situating Theory: Dynamics of Condescension and Reciprocity in the Material Shadow of the Past', in A. Stroulia and S. Buck (eds) Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology, and Community in Greece, pp. 457-471. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
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- Cheliotis, L. K. (2010) 'Greece', in N. Padfield, D. van Zyl Smit and F. Dünkel (eds) Release from Prison: European Policy and Practice, pp. 213-236. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.
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