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Greece from Junta to Crisis

Modernization, Transition and Diversity

Dimitris Tziovas (Birmingham University, UK)

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
26 January 2023
Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book Prize

Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award

The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country

since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of

post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends

in the years between the fall of the junta and the economic crisis, highlighting the growing diversity and cultural ambivalence of Greek society.

With its focus on

issues such as identity, antiquity, religion, language, literature, media, cinema, youth, gender and sexuality, this study is one of the first to examine cultural trends in Greece over the last fifty years. Aiming for a more nuanced understanding of recent history, the study offers a fresh perspective on current problems.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9780755642540
ISBN 10:   0755642546
Pages:   320
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dimtris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of The Other Self:Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction (2003), editor of Re-Imagining the Past: Greek Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture (2014) and Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity (2017).

Reviews for Greece from Junta to Crisis: Modernization, Transition and Diversity

This is cultural history at its best - interdisciplinary, wide-ranging and packed with well-chosen detail. Tziovas explores the shifts and turns of how Greeks have been (mis)understood, by themselves and others, since the 1970s, with an admirably open mind and a determination to move on from past stereotypes. --Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, King's College London, UK The first ever study of cultural transformation in Greece after the 1970's, Greece from Junta to Crisis offers us a country in transition. Based on exhaustive research and inspired by a synthetic vision, it provides unique perspectives on a dizzying variety of topics such as national identity, gay subjectivity, popular movements, cinema, fiction, classical antiquity, the Internet, and conceptions of the west. It will become the standard work on the topic. --Professor Gregory Jusdanis, The Ohio State University, USA


  • Short-listed for Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2022 (United States)
  • Short-listed for Runciman Award 2022 (United States)

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