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Alternative organizing in times of crisis: resistance assemblages and socio-spatial solidarity

Alternative organizing in times of crisis: resistance assemblages and socio-spatial solidarity
Alternative organizing in times of crisis: resistance assemblages and socio-spatial solidarity
This paper draws on research conducted in Greece, where, during the last seven years, an acute socio-economic crisis has led to the emergence of a number of alternative organizational forms. By foregrounding the term drasis, the unexpected unfolding of an event in a specific space and time, we discuss how these alternative forms assemble differential capacities in order to resist the neoliberal ordering of socio-spatial and economic relations. In particular, we focus on two self-organized spaces, namely, a social centre and a squatted public garden and discuss two concrete instances of drasis. We propose that drasis instigates the establishment and evolution of transformative, prefigurative organizing through three interrelated processes, namely, the formation of resistance assemblages, social learning and socio-spatial solidarity. The paper offers three propositions, suggesting that drasis provides the socio-material conditions through which new resistance formations challenge the established productive forces of society and co-produce alternative forms of civic life.© 2017 published by SAGE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in European Urban and Regional Studies, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0969776416683001. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.
Alternative Organizing, Assemblages, Resistance
0969-7764
155-170
Daskalaki, Maria
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Daskalaki, Maria
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Daskalaki, Maria (2017) Alternative organizing in times of crisis: resistance assemblages and socio-spatial solidarity. European Urban and Regional Studies, 25 (2), 155-170. (doi:10.1177/0969776416683001).

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This paper draws on research conducted in Greece, where, during the last seven years, an acute socio-economic crisis has led to the emergence of a number of alternative organizational forms. By foregrounding the term drasis, the unexpected unfolding of an event in a specific space and time, we discuss how these alternative forms assemble differential capacities in order to resist the neoliberal ordering of socio-spatial and economic relations. In particular, we focus on two self-organized spaces, namely, a social centre and a squatted public garden and discuss two concrete instances of drasis. We propose that drasis instigates the establishment and evolution of transformative, prefigurative organizing through three interrelated processes, namely, the formation of resistance assemblages, social learning and socio-spatial solidarity. The paper offers three propositions, suggesting that drasis provides the socio-material conditions through which new resistance formations challenge the established productive forces of society and co-produce alternative forms of civic life.© 2017 published by SAGE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in European Urban and Regional Studies, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0969776416683001. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2016
Published date: 23 January 2017
Keywords: Alternative Organizing, Assemblages, Resistance

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Local EPrints ID: 443271
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443271
ISSN: 0969-7764
PURE UUID: 3585a3b7-4c47-40b2-9da7-854227873e83
ORCID for Maria Daskalaki: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-1955

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