Political and Cultural Aspects of Greek Exoticism

1. Introduction: Framing Greek exoticism. History and the current crisis (Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Panayis Panagiotopoulos).- PART I. Exoticism lasts a long time. Philhellenism and other historical constructions of Greece.- 2. Historical Patterns of Greek Exoticism (19th-20th century) (Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos).- 3. The European origins of the Great Idea (Vicky Karafoulidou).- 4. Perceptions of Antiquity and Modernity. Greece in the eyes of her allies, 1946-2018 (Dimitrios Antoniou, Zinovia Lialiouti).- PART II. Radical anticapitalism and social deconstruction during the Greek crisis.- 5. Demodernise Greece. Sociological critique on the construction of an alternative country (Panayis Panagiotopoulos).- 6. Cradle of Solidarity and Philoxenia. Exotic distortions of the Greek migration crisis (Yiorgos Rakkas).- 7. Zorba the Greek. From the "Syrtaki" dance to the Eurogroup (Kostas Karavidas, Yiannis Papatheodorou).- 8. "Spoiled Brats" or "Anti-capitalist Pioneers". Turkish views of theGreek crisis (Ioannis N. Grigoriadis).- PART III. Ruins and artistic exoticism. Greece as a cultural Arcadia of the West.- 9. Crisis, Exoticism and the Rediscovery of Greece (Dimitris Tziovas).- 10. The Cornucopia of Greekness. Copies and performances of a body that never was (Despina Sevasti).- 11. Self-exoticism, The Iconography of crisis and the Greek Weird Wave (Afroditi Nikolaidou).- 12. Athens, an alternative city. Graffiti and radical tourism (Vassilis Vamvakas).

Panayis Panagiotopoulos is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.