Διαχείριση της Κρίσης, Κατοικία και Υγεία: Γενίκευση και Μέτρηση της Στεγαστικής Επισφάλειας και της Επισφάλειας Υγείας στην Ελλάδα

Abstract

In this article are being analyzed two social-political determinants of inequalities in health; the macro-economic management of the crisis and the social policy in Greece in the period 2008-2017, highlighting here housing and health policies. Articulating a theoretical argument on the meeting point of the Marxist critique of Political Economy (Gough 2008) and the Foucauldian “analytics of power” (Φουκώ 1978 and Foucault 2007) (for the epistemological frame of this synthesis: Marsden 1999, Jessop 2008, Jessop and Sum 2013, Bidet 2016), using data from studies of the same period, and building especially on ETHOS (European Typology of Homelessness and Ηousing Εxclusion) (Edgar 2005) for assessing housing insecurity, it will be shown that: (a) crisis management via macroeconomic and social policy generalizes, instead of preventing or reduce, housing and health insecurity; (b) the social policy, in its aspects examined here, does not make part of a different political “paradigm”, comparing to that of the macroeconomic management – in reality, it consists a mechanism of its political legitimization; c) both the statistical monitoring of the crisis management and the lack of reliable statistic data (statistical “silence”), do not reflect a neutral use or lack of evidence – in contrary, they both make part of the political “paradigm” of the crisis management, as they individualize and obscure aspects of housing and health insecurity, limiting thus the problem in the edges of its “continuum” and, correspondently, limiting its comprehension in the limits of politically/ideologically “tolerable”.