Kostis KornetisUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid | UAM · Historia Contemporanea
Kostis Kornetis
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The July 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey caught the Greek Colonels (1967–74) off guard, as they proved entirely incapable of responding to the casus belli, partly provoked by their own actions. Greece remained technically in the state of military mobilisation for about four months and with the democratic transition well underway. This article cat...
This article engages the argument that the 2008-2009 Great Recession forced a revisiting of
the period of transitions in Spain, Greece, and Portugal as “political masterpieces,” especially
among a younger generation of activists. It argues that this radical reevaluation turned the
conflicting generational recollections of the past into pivotal comp...
This article engages the argument that the 2008–2009 Great Recession forced a revisiting of the period of transitions in Spain, Greece, and Portugal as “political masterpieces,” especially among a younger generation of activists. It argues that this radical reevaluation turned the conflicting generational recollections of the past into pivotal comp...
This chapter sums up the aims and findings of the book. As some authors have underlined, the struggle for the memory is a fight for the future, with long-lasting consequences for the political, cultural and economic fields. With its special focus on the evolution of the memory of transitions, the legacy of European values, and the impact of visions...
This chapter looks back at the history of transitology and the conceptualisation of Spain, Greece and Portugal as part of the canon of the “third wave of democratisation”. It measures the distance between the time in which the three countries were dubbed “New European South” and were considered pioneers in terms of democratisation, and the time of...
The transitions to democracy in Spain and Greece in the mid-1970s have been hailed for quite some time as the ultimate success stories. Ever since the onset of the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, however, the two countries were strongly challenged by new social movements that sprang out of the crisis and by intellectuals close to them, pullin...
Analyses the factors behind the end of authoritarianism in Spain, Greece and Portugal. It brings together none original case studies from the field of History, political science and sociology. it considered the role of the EEC and its association with democratic values and its impact on the modernization
Este artículo versa sobre la relación dialéctica existente entre
cultura y política en Grecia bajo la dictadura de los Coroneles (1967-1974).
Estudia cómo las nuevas tendencias en el mundo de la producción escrita,
pero también en el cine, el teatro y la música, dieron forma a nuevas identidades
culturales, radicalizando a partes de la población y,...
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - The Holocaust in Greece - edited by Giorgos Antoniou
Kyttaro was an alternative club in the center of Athens during the Colonels, dictatorship. This article demonstrates how the affective economy and political energy of the live musical performances that took place there turned it into a vehicle of cultural and political contestation for the progressive youth of the time. It also challenges dominant...
Nikolaos Papadogiannis. Militant around the Clock? Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974–1981. New York: Berghahn, 2015. x + 329 pp.
This article focuses on how youth has been regarded as a powerful determinant of Greek political culture ever since the 1970s. It looks, in particular, at how the role of youth has been either hailed or demonized, either seen as a guiding force (for example the 1973 student movement) or as purely destructive force in Greek society (for example the...
“Cinema as a lived experience”. Political Cinema and the Generations of the Long Sixties in Greece and Spain
In the “long 1960s”, the young generation of left-wing “cinephile” militants in Greece and Spain received political cinema in a specific way. Rethinking both the impact of films on political radicalization and the role of social movements in...
This volume brings together scholars from the fields of history, political science, political economy, historical sociology and cultural studies, to comment on the theoretical and empirical unsettling of democratic transitions at the time of the economic crisis. The volume links together transitions in time and space, reappraising the democratic pr...
This article addresses the ways in which the Third World emerged as a new referent in Greece and Spain in the ‘long 1960s'. It shows how ‘Thirdworldism’ emerged out of growing dissatisfaction with the Old Left’s defeatism and the ways in which, by way of the Cuban and Vietnamese example, radicals started to conceive their countries as US colonies....
A number of Greek feature films in the 1990s and early 2000s – from End of an Era to Uranya – created a standard depiction of the Colonels’ dictatorship as an era filled with bittersweet adolescent memories. The Comedy of the Junta: The Light Side of a Dark Era , a recent documentary produced in April 2010 by Elias Kanellis, presented it as a laugh...
This article sets out to look at the ways in which gender relations and sexuality became politicised over time and especially during the ‘long 1960s’ in Spain during what is often called ‘late Francoism’. It analyses the gradual change to more liberal mores that coincided with the so-called apertura, or opening-up of the regime, that began in the e...
The current economic recession in Spain prompted a need to reassess post-authoritarian phenomena, as in moments of deep social, political and economic crisis the recent past tends to become an issue of contention. A key question of the indignados' self-representation and understanding of self revolves around their relation to the past and, in parti...
This article focuses on three separate "moments of change" - 1968, 1989 and 2011 – in order to trace the changes in the way in which social movements were theoretically framed on a research level ever since the 1960s. Rather than focusing on the real or imaginary connections that activists often create with the contestatory past – or the rejection...
The New Left and the social movements that were born out of it changed for good the way in which movements were conceptualized in Europe. The New Left began in the US as the intellectual offspring of critical sociology, French existentialism, Beat literature, and participatory democracy principles deriving from the civil rights movement. The New Le...
Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these "children of the dictatorship" managed to re-approp...
The sociopolitical condition of Greece in the 1970s and 1980s has been the renewed focus of attention, not least because of the recent economic crisis and the fact that many analysts tend to attribute all ills to the so-called period of the Metapolitefsi. Few scholars, however, have concentrated on the relationship between music and identity in pos...
“ Grèce Générale” ? Exploring the Boundaries between Past and Present, the Local and the Transnational in the December 2008 Events in Greece
The ‘ December events’ of 2008 – three weeks of civil disobedience and violent demonstrations across Greece after the killing of a student by the police – claimed to avoid identification with social protest i...
This article attempts to trace the contested relationship between the December 2008 riots in Greece and the revolutionary past, aiming to promote a discussion on the dynamic relationship between past and present. The article argues that even though the activists' repertoire was pretty much removed from the past, their discourse often echoed or reve...
By the time some junior officers under the leadership of Colonel Papadopoulos staged their April 1967 coup to prevent an alleged Communist takeover in Greece, Spain had already weathered an anti-Communist crusade following the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). In fact, it was experiencing a second, more complex phase, as the Communist threa...
Lo spazio adriatico ha caratteristiche ambivalenti, sintetizzabili nella combinazione costante di unità e diversità sia in senso ambientale che socio-culturale. La coesistenza di un insieme di somiglianze e differenze in diversi campi fornisce comunque una connotazione specifica a quest'area. Nella loro evidente diversità, i testi che compongono "I...
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Projects (2)
To explore the mnemohistory between the present day economic crisis and the time of the transition. To understand what is distinctive and what is not about the Southern European and the Latin American memories of transition. To unearth the memories of two generations - one that lived through the events, and one that remembers it by means of postemory.
Estudio de las diversas formas de relación e influencia en los procesos históricos que llevaron a Portugal y España desde sus respectivas dictaduras hasta la incorporación en la CEE. El proyecto se vertebra en torno a cuatro grandes ejes, con sus correspondientes ramificaciones y derivaciones:
1.- INNOVACIÓN SOCIO-CULTURAL Y ACCIÓN COLECTIVA
2.- IMÁGENES PROYECTADAS DE LA TRANSICIÓN
3.- ACTITUDES Y ESTRATEGIAS DE VIEJOS Y NUEVOS ACTORES
4.- ESTUDIOS SOBRE (A) DESCOLONIZADOS Y (B) EXILIADOS ESPAÑOLES, PORTUGUESES Y GRIEGOS EN LOS AÑOS 60-70
