The economic crisis seen from the everyday: Europe's nouveau poor and the global affective implications of a ?local? debt crisis

摘要: The proliferating numbers of a new population urban poor in the Western world—who I call here nouveau poor—is phenomenon equally (if not more) significant as emergence Indignados and Occupy movements, calls for urgent attention from part critical studies. This forces us to re-evaluate analytical categories within which we study poverty (gender, age, ethnicity, marginality, etc.) prompts focus on commonality, rather than difference, when it comes collectively reclaiming ‘right city’. Focusing political, social affective consequences presence streets Athens, argue that shock waves Greece's send down Europe's spine are partly due fact Athens' ranks beggars migrants, junkies, alcoholics or homeless; they do fall any familiar ‘other’ ‘subaltern’. As belonged, until very recently, mainstre...