The impact of the economic crisis on the quality of life for residents of Attiki area. The experience from the City of Marousi


Veröffentlicht: Apr 13, 2016
Manos Spyridakis
Andreas Feronas
Abstract
This paper attempts to shed light on the impact of the economic recession upon several dimensions of quality of life, based on data collected from an ongoing smallscale qualitative empirical research in the Municipality of Maroussi, Attica. It attempts to incorporate both, elements relating to certain objective conditions of living and, mostly, subjective opinions, perceptions and representations about the economic crisis in Greece. The picture gained so far reveals that the economic crisis and the policies of memoranda have caused deep wounds, not only in terms of disposable income and material resources of individuals and households but also to the overall quality of life, with serious implications for social cohesion as such.
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Manos Spyridakis, University of the Peloponnese
He is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social and Educational Policy at the University of the Peloponnese. He studied History and Archaeology in the University of Crete; he got his Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Durham, and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Sussex European Institute in the University
of Sussex, as a bursar of the State Scholarship Foundation. Also, he has been appointed a postdoctoral fellowship on Social Anthropology from the same Foundation. He has taught in a number of Greek and European Universities and he is member of the editorial board of the journals, Ethnology and Utopia (both in Greek) member of the scientific secretariat of the journal, Social Cohesion and Development, co-editor (with C. Dermentzopoulos) of the ETEROTITES series, of Metaihmio publishers and deputy chair of the Commission of Urban Anthropology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. His research interests focus on employment relations and social policy, on the concept of space, on qualitative social research, on economic anthropology and on anthropology of health. His most recent publication is, The Liminal Worker. An ethnography of work, unemployment and precariousness in contemporary
Greece, Farnham: Ashagate (2013). Address: Department of Social and Educational Policy,
University of Peloponnese, Damaskinou and Kolokotroni str. 20100, Korinth, Greece. E-mail:
maspyridakis@gmail.com
Andreas Feronas, University of the Peloponnese
He is Assistant Professor at the University of Peloponnese, Department of Social and Educational Policy. He has been a Member of the Employment Committee (EMCO) of European Union (2004-2008). His main research has been on poverty and social exclusion and on EU social inclusion strategy and the Europeanization of social policy. His latest publications
include “The Social Dimension of Europe 2020. Rhetoric vs Reality” (Social Policy, Vol. 1, 2013),
“EU Policy against Poverty and Social Exclusion: A Critical Assessment” (International Journal of
Anthropology (Vol. 27, 3, 2012) and the book The Europeanization of Social Policy: Theoretical
Perspectives, Methodological Problems and the Greek Experience (editor Dionicos, 2013). Address: Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese, Damaskinou and Kolokotroni str. 20100, Korinth, Greece.Email:anfer@uop.gr.
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