Seventy years after the end of the Second World War we still do not fully appreciate the
intensity of the lived experience of people and communities involved in resistance …

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of
the world through real and imagined experiences of place. The book seeks to connect the …

Since the 1990s, Western agencies have put considerable effort into peace building after the
collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and generally in societies afflicted by civil war …

ABSTRACT In 1912, Ikaria, a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea, seceded from the
Ottoman Empire in a short-lived Revolution, becoming the independent 'Free State of …

From a reflexive point of view, the author questions the problem of silence in ethnographic
research. Different types of silences in her field of expertise are discussed: from folklore …

This paper discusses the emergence of 'divided memories' in the aftermath of war time
massacres in Greece and Italy. Based on ethnographic research in the Greek community of …

Rural sociologists, social geographers, anthropologists and other scholars concerned with
rural Greece typically confirm accounts of xenophobia and 'backwardness' that have …

This article addresses the issue of how long‐term memory of extreme conditions is socially
transformed. It focuses on elements of the social structure and pre‐war habitus that might …

Greece is currently experiencing an unprecedented influx of immigrants who are facilitating
a repopulation and reterritorialization of rural areas in particular. The significance of this …