The aim of the paper is to reflect on how borders proliferate in everyday life, not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper attempts to capture the multiple relations that connect the camp to […]
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4th Seminar: Vassilis Lambropoulos
The world has been undergoing unprecedented transformations over the past two decades. Historical time has accelerated and thickened at the same time as a result of political, social, and economic challenges which led to new configurations of power on the global and local levels. The question “what is to be done?” seems more pressing than […]
2nd seminar: Seraphim Seferiades – Loukia Kotronaki
You can watch the seminar live here. Seraphim Seferiades “Why calling the Far Right (and the Left) ‘populist’ is a bad idea, and why it is done” ‘Concepts’, wrote Cambridge physicist George Thomson (1856-1940), ‘are ideas which receive names. They determine the questions one asks, and the answers one gets’. Scholars create words (conceptualize) to […]
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Politics of Liberation
1st Seminar: Dylan Riley “What Next? The End of Democratic Capitalism and the Tasks of the Left” You can watch the seminar live here. Politics of Liberation is a bi-monthly seminar series which will be convened by Rosa Vasilaki and Giorgos Souvlis and will take place in the premises of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Kallidromiou […]
Reclaiming the City
Looking with increasing urge to find new ways to reinvest money, the wealthy elites, helped by the hand of the state, are using privatization of communal and public land, especially in the cities, to increase profits and shape the urban space according to their own interests. At the same time, voices against the commercialization of […]
Local governments in Germany and Greece in times of crisis
As part of the exchange of local policies from Athens, Dresden and Leipzig organized by RLS (Office in Greece – Brussels Office), 16 local politicians from Greece visited in August 2013 Dresden and Leipzig to share with them and their colleagues views and experiences and to get up a taste of the challenges facing the […]
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Local government: opportunities and Left action limits by example Athens, Dresden and Leipzig
The economic crisis has led the population of Greece to an emergency, thus continually exacerbated the problems in the areas of food, housing, medical care, work, education, culture. The state does not adequately address these problems and is willing to contribute to their solution. This situation of the people has other consequences: (political) distress, increasing […]
