Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration CrisisThe Post-colonial Bind of Greece

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis: The Post-colonial Bind of Greece [This chapter deals with the post-colonial nature of the Greek’s financial and political crisis of 2015. The decade-long financial crisis snowballed into a debt and currency crisis marking European politics and economy of last few years. The chapter shows how the Greek, and in a sense, the European scenario is typical across much of the world, and how Europe’s periphery is now playing out a script of debt, bondage, and neoliberal reforms, already performed many times in the post-colony. In this context, it discusses certain aspects of politics in the time of a crisis, which too resemble post-colonial experiences, including experiences of populism. Yet what is significant, the chapter argues, is that the Greek leaders remained oblivious of the post-colonial destiny of the Greek nation. Even European Left politics was imprisoned in the politics of the welfare state of the post Second World era that fed into a European economic project and failed to recognise the emerging post-colonial realities made global by neoliberalism.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration CrisisThe Post-colonial Bind of Greece

Download PDF
25 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-post-colonial-enquiry-into-europe-s-debt-and-migration-crisis-the-3kz5RdLbrV
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
ISBN
978-981-10-2211-1
Pages
1 –26
DOI
10.1007/978-981-10-2212-8_1
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter deals with the post-colonial nature of the Greek’s financial and political crisis of 2015. The decade-long financial crisis snowballed into a debt and currency crisis marking European politics and economy of last few years. The chapter shows how the Greek, and in a sense, the European scenario is typical across much of the world, and how Europe’s periphery is now playing out a script of debt, bondage, and neoliberal reforms, already performed many times in the post-colony. In this context, it discusses certain aspects of politics in the time of a crisis, which too resemble post-colonial experiences, including experiences of populism. Yet what is significant, the chapter argues, is that the Greek leaders remained oblivious of the post-colonial destiny of the Greek nation. Even European Left politics was imprisoned in the politics of the welfare state of the post Second World era that fed into a European economic project and failed to recognise the emerging post-colonial realities made global by neoliberalism.]

Published: Oct 11, 2016

Keywords: Debt crisis; Euro zone; Neoliberal; Troika; IMF; Syriza; Populism; Post-colonial bind; European central bank; Varoufakis; European stability pact; Monetarism; Greek referendum

There are no references for this article.