Half a century after the fall of the dictatorships in Greece, Portugal, and Spain, the meanings and legacies of Southern Europe’s democratic transitions remain contested. This volume revisits those transitions not as linear passages from authoritarianism to democratic “normality”, but as uneven and conflictual processes shaped by social mobilisation, institutional continuities, political compromise, and competing […]
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We are living in an “unequal dystopia in the making”. For decades, the mainstream answers to the climate crisis – namely sustainable development and green capitalism – have not only failed but have led to the deepening of the crisis. They are not solutions, but sophisticated strategies for commodifying nature, shifting costs to the poor […]
The outcome of the Golden Dawn trial in October 2020 marked the completion of its delegitimization process, which had already begun at the societal level some years earlier. Almost the entire political spectrum welcomed the conviction, and its practices were now officially characterized as criminal. But what are the ideological patterns upon which Golden Dawn […]
This edited volume hosts a collection of essays first presented at the Politics of Liberation seminar, held in Athens since 2022 under the auspices of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–Office in Greece. The seminar, now in its third year, has featured academics, politicians, journalists, political analysts and activists. The essays are indicative of the work being […]
Political discourse in Europe on migration revolves around exclusionary policies, the targeting of “others”, of refugees and migrants and of anyone that is different, creating a disproportionate impact on these populations. The failures in implementing EU law and policy in the area of irregular migration, and making it effective and respectful of human rights, reveal […]
In recent years, economic, social and political developments in Europe have challenged European welfare governance. Many countries, including Greece, launched austerity programmes that have negatively affected welfare systems and impoverished disadvantaged populations. At the same time, the global situation (political, social, military conflicts, human rights abuses, violence, weather, etc.) has resulted in the increased movement […]
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How can Black Marxism as an expression of the Black Radical Tradition help us critically study today’s Balkans? In his book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson underscores the importance of feudalism and racialized social conventions for the beginnings of capitalism even while reformulating the significance of the Balkan–Eastern Mediterranean space as the periphery’s first geography of […]
The Haitian-American feminist anthropologist, artist and academic Gina Athena Ulysse engages in rasanblaj: a unique feminist and decolonial practice rooted in black aesthetics and the Haitian spiritual and historical experience. This volume attempts to broaden access to contemporary black radical thought and art, especially, to Caribbean genealogies. At the core of the volume is the […]
This short text uses examples from US liberal imperialism to illuminate the postcolonial critique of liberalism and its standpoint. First, it thinks of the postcolonial critique as one that sees the liberal script as a constitutive boundary-drawing project. Liberalism universalizes not in opposition to but through its particularizing moves. Second, it claims that the postcolonial […]
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