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The Politics Of Apolitical Culture. The Cia And The Congress Of Cultural Freedom, Despina Lalaki
The Politics Of Apolitical Culture. The Cia And The Congress Of Cultural Freedom, Despina Lalaki
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Recent Futures: Classical Antiquity As Biopolitical Tool, Despina Lalaki
Recent Futures: Classical Antiquity As Biopolitical Tool, Despina Lalaki
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Gifts Among Strangers: The Social Organization Of Freecycle Giving, Sofya Aptekar
Gifts Among Strangers: The Social Organization Of Freecycle Giving, Sofya Aptekar
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The Freecycle Network, with its millions of members gifting objects to strangers, is a stalwart fixture of the increasingly popular sharing economy. Unlike the wildly profitable Airbnb and Uber, the Freecycle Network prohibits profit-making, or even barter, providing an altruism-based alternative to capitalist markets while keeping tons of garbage out of landfills. Why do millions of people give through Freecycle instead of selling, donating, or throwing away items? Utilizing participant observation of two overlapping Freecycle groups and a survey of their members, I investigate motivations for giving and the social norms that guide it. I find that while members of …
On The Social Construction Of Hellenism Cold War Narratives Of Modernity, Development And Democracy For Greece, Despina Lalaki
On The Social Construction Of Hellenism Cold War Narratives Of Modernity, Development And Democracy For Greece, Despina Lalaki
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Hellenism is one of those overarching, ever-changing narratives always subject to historical circumstances, intellectual fashions and political needs. Conversely, it is fraught with meaning and conditioning powers, enabling and constraining imagination and practical life. In this essay I tease out the hold that the idea of Hellas has had on post-war Greece and I explore the ways in which the American anti-communist rhetoric and discussions about political and economic stabilization appropriated and rearticulated Hellenism. Central to this history of transformations are the archaeologists; the archaeologists as intellectuals, as producers of culture who, while stepping in and out of their disciplinary …