Crete as warriorhood: Visual explorations of social imaginaries in ‘crisis’ (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

Abstract

This paper explores contemporary Greek political praxis and social imagination through the study of Crete's position in engagements with the “crisis”. The essay employs the visual as an object and a method of analysis and examines a series of social spheres ranging from public protesting to televisual representation. The paper explores the cultural productivity of notions of native resistance in the current context as well as Cretan responses to the use of traditionalist idioms within the “crisis”.