2016/01/01 by Matthew Moran, David Waddington · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Unrest #Dictatorship #Austerity #Rage (emotion) #Politics #State (computer science) #Political science #Quarter (Canadian coin) #Geography #Economic history #Political economy #History #Ancient history #Sociology #Law #Democracy #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57131-1_5
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
It was an incident occurring on the cold winter night of Saturday, 6 December 2008 which acted as the trigger for the three weeks of rioting that comprised ‘the most severe acts of civil unrest’ witnessed in Greece since the overthrow of the country’s political dictatorship in 1974. The relevant sequence of events took place within the Exarcheia quarter of central Athens, a locality which harbours coexisting populations of students (mostly enrolled at the local Athens Polytechnic) and countercultural activists, renowned for their anti-establishment sensibilities. According to Astrinaki, Exarcheia is a correspondingly tightly policed location, ‘considered the central territory of the “anti-authoritarians” [the koukouloforoi ], groups of anarchists who cover their heads and faces with hoods as they carry out small-scale hit-and-run attacks against police and other state and capitalist symbols’. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.