The Commonalities of Global Crises

The Commonalities of Global Crises

Christian Karner Bernhard Weicht Editors The Commonalities of Global Crises Markets, Communities and Nostalgia

Editors Christian Karner University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom Bernhard Weicht Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria ISBN 978-1-137-50271-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5 ISBN 978-1-137-50273-5 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2016937329 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Th e author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Th e use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Th e publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Th is Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature Th e registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London

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Contents Markets, Communities and Nostalgia 1 Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht France in Times of the Responsibility and Solidarity Pact : Neoliberal Normalization or a Laboratory of New Resistance? 35 Frédéric Moulène Neoliberal Moral Economy: Migrant Workers Value Struggles Across Temporal and Spatial Dimensions 61 Barbara Samaluk Treble Troubles? Marketization, Social Protection and Emancipation Considered Through the Lens of Slavery 87 Julia O Connell Davidson State, Market, or Back to the Family? Nostalgic Struggles for Proper Elder Care 115 Bernhard Weicht Moral Economy Versus Political Economy: Provincializing Polanyi 143 John Holmwood vii

viii Contents Collective Identity Under Reconstruction: The Case of West Piraeus (Greece) 167 Giorgos Bithymitris Austria Between Social Protection and Emancipation : Negotiating Global Flows, Marketization and Nostalgia 195 Christian Karner Disembedding the Embedded/Disembedded Opposition 223 José Julián López The Politics of Nostalgia in Urban Redevelopment Projects: The Case of Antwerp-Dam 249 Tim Devos, Bruno Meeus, and Seppe De Blust Longing for Communal Purity: Countryside, (Far-Right) Nationalism and the (Im)possibility of Progressive Politics of Nostalgia 271 Bernhard Forchtner Varieties of Nostalgia in Argentinean and Chilean Generations 295 Raimundo Frei The Egyptian Economic Crisis: Insecurity, Affect, Nostalgia 323 Amal Treacher Kabesh Erratum to: The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia E1 Epilogue 345 Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht Index 355

Notes on Contributors Giorgos Bithymitris holds a PhD from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. His research focuses on union movement theory, social movements, collective identities, ideology and framing processes in crisis contexts. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Panteion University, exploring collective identities among the working class of West Piraeus in the context of crisis and deindustrialization. He also works as an employment counsellor at the Network for Employment & Social Care (DAKM). Giorgos is a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the EU FP7 Project Cultural Pathways to Economic Self- Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship. Seppe De Blust is a sociologist and urban planner doing a PhD in Planning & Development, KU Leuven on the strategic positioning of spatial professionals in neighbourhood redevelopment processes. Seppe is also cofounder of Ndvr, an office for socio-spatial research, design consultancy and process guidance. Julia O Connell Davidson is Chair of Social Research in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She has researched and written on employment relations, prostitution, trafficking, childhood, and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project on modern slavery. She is author of Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Tim De vo s is an architect doing a PhD in social geography at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, on the involvement of local stakeholders in participatory planning processes. Tim is also cofounder of Ndvr. ix

x Notes on Contributors Bernhard Forchtner is a lecturer at the Department of Media & Communication, University of Leicester. Previously he was Marie Curie Fellow working on far-right ecological risk communication. He has published in the field of memory studies, in the interface of sociological theory and critical discourse analysis, and on prejudice and discrimination. Recent publications include The Nature of Nationalism. Populist Radical Right Parties on Countryside and Climate in Nature & Culture and Embattled Vienna 1683/2010: Right-Wing Populism, Collective Memory and the Fictionalisation of Politics in Visual Communication. Raimundo Frei holds a PhD in sociology from the Humboldt-University of Berlin. His dissertation offers a narrative approach to generational memories. He is currently a researcher at Chile UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), focusing on cultural mechanisms in the reproduction of social inequalities. He also leads a comparative project sponsored by the University of Chile to research narratives and memories of inequalities in Argentina and Chile. John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. During the academic year 2014 15, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research interests include social inequality, the public university and democratic knowledge. He is the editor of A Manifesto for the Public University (2011) and one of the founding editors of the free online magazine of social research, commentary and policy analysis, Discover Society. Amal Treacher Kabesh is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. She is currently completing a book entitled Egyptian Revolutions: Confl ict, Repetition, Identification (Rowman & Littlefield) that draws upon postcolonial and psychosocial theory to analyse the troubling socio-political processes that take place in Egypt. Her extensive publications focus on subjectivity, gender and ethnicity, the relationship between the Middle East and the West, and relationships between self and other. Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and he has been a Research Associate in the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research and publications relate to the negotiations of local, ethnic and national identities in the context of contemporary globalization. Christian s books include Writing History, Constructing Religion (co-edited with James Crossley, 2005), Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), Negotiating National Identities: Between Globalization, the Past and the Other (2011), and The Use and Abuse of Memory (co-edited with Bram Mertens, 2013).

Notes on Contributors xi José Julián López is Associate Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. His current work is concerned with developing sociological approaches to the study of human rights, and the human right to food. His previous research explored modes of ethical regulation of new technologies and the social-discursivity of metaphors. Bruno Meeus is a geographer, Innoviris postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels of the KU Leuven, and project manager at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at VUB. His research interests revolve around migration, urban inequality and action-oriented ethnography. Frédéric Moulène is Associate Researcher at the University of Strasbourg and Teaching Fellow at the University of Besançon. His PhD offered a sociological contribution to the study of performative political discourse. He is a specialist in the sociology of language and a member of the research committee Language and Society within the International Sociological Association. His other research relates to urban sociology, the anthropology of space, and economic sociology. Barbara Samaluk is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Work and Employment Research Unit at the University of Greenwich Business School. Her research interests include transnational labour migration, cultural political economy, commodification and marketization in postcolonial and post-socialist contexts, diversity and anti-discrimination. Her publications feature in edited volumes and journals, including Work, employment and society. Her current research explores the effects of marketization. Barbara s research is underpinned by years of human rights and anti-discrimination advocacy work in various postsocialist countries. Bernhard Weicht is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham where he researched the construction of care for elderly people. He continued his work at Utrecht University with a project on the intersections of care and migration regimes. Bernhard has published on the construction of care, ageing, dependency, migrant care workers and the intersection of migration and care. Most recently, his monograph The Meaning of Care was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2015). He is chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network Ageing in Europe.

List of Tables Table 10.1 The articulation of substantive arguments with nostalgic sentiments in the advice of the Damcomité to counter the gentrification threat 264 Table 11.1 Nostalgia and its modes 287 xiii