The city at a time of crisis: Transformations of public spaces in Athens, Greece

Greece is one of the countries most affected by the current financial crisis. Since 2010, when the Greek government and IMF/EU/ECB agreed on the largest loan ever received by a single country, Greece has seen sweeping transformations in the character of its polity and state functions. The Greek version of the crisis has produced a rupture in the modus operandi of the state in question and in its relationship with its citizenry. The main axis of this rupture is the systemic challenge and reconfiguration of the category 'public' - which of course includes public spaces. This research focuses on the newly emerging public socialities in reference to public urban spaces. The idea of emphasizing spontaneous and unspontaneous socio-spatial practices, public urban materialities and spatialities in the capital city of Greece appears as an ideal way in which to study the wide variety of the social consequences of the financial crisis.

希腊是受本轮金融危机冲击最为严重的国家之一。自2010年希腊政府与国际货币基金组织（IMF）、欧盟（EU）、欧洲中央银行（ECB）达成史上单个国家获得的最大规模贷款协议以来，希腊的政治体制与国家职能的特质均发生了彻底变革。本次希腊版危机致使该国的国家运作模式及其与公民群体的关系均出现了断裂，这一断裂的核心主轴，是对"公共"范畴——当然也包括公共空间在内——的系统性挑战与重构。本研究聚焦于与城市公共空间相关的新兴公共社会性形态。以希腊首都为研究场域，着重探讨自发与非自发的社会空间实践、城市公共物质性与空间性的研究思路，恰为探究金融危机各类社会后果的理想路径。