@inbook {20336,
	title = {Bodies in the city: Athenian street art and the biopolitics of the {\textquoteright}Greek crisis{\textquoteright}},
	booktitle = {Urban Art and the City Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime.},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {149-165},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {Oxford and New York},
	abstract = {From the onset of the so-called {\textquotedblleft}Greek crisis{\textquotedblright} (a sovereign-debt default in late 2009 and the subsequent, and ongoing, attempts on behalf of successive Greek governments at securing adequate bailout aid from the EU and the IMF), a new breed of biopolitics seems to have been in place. Classical antiquity has always played a crucial part in the forging of modern Greek social and cultural identities; in the framework of the {\textquotedblleft}Greek crisis{\textquotedblright}, however, classical heritage and its visual output has been used both as an emancipatory tool against the country{\textquoteright}s debtors as well as a disciplinary device on behalf of its critics. In this paper, a number of earlier and more recent Athenian graffiti will be discussed, directly or indirectly incorporating themes from Greek art in order to express their makers{\textquoteright} sentiments {\textendash} as well as the frustrations of their public at large. Contrasting unauthorized examples of Athenian street art with some centrally-sponsored recent examples also employing classicizing imageries, the paper will explore the ways in which classical heritage finds itself entangled with the neoliberal biopolitics at work in Greece since 2009.},
	editor = {A. Loukaki}
}
