Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925803
Mogens Pelt
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936–1941</em> by Katerina Lagos <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Mogens Pelt (bio) </li> </ul> Katerina Lagos, <em>The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936–1941</em>. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xi + 273. Hardcover $129.99, eBook $99.00. <p>Although this book's title might suggest a focus solely on Greek Jewry under the Metaxas regime, its scope is much broader. It traces the history of Greek Jews from the Greek Revolution to the death of Ioannis Metaxas in January 1941, while at the same time presenting a comprehensive historical analysis of the relationship between Greek Jewry and the Greek state and society during the Metaxas regime. It may seem counterintuitive to end the book with the death of Metaxas since, only a few years later, most members of the Jewish communities in Greece were killed during the Axis occupation: 85% of Greece's local Jewish population were exterminated during the Holocaust, one of the highest percentages in Europe. The role of the Greek population ranged from assisting the Nazis in the deportation to hiding Jews and protecting them from persecution.</p> <p>Lagos's main argument for zeroing in on the Metaxas period is twofold. First, the historiography concerning Greek Jews has focused mainly on the Holocaust, and we need to go beyond that period to establish an analytical context and explain the prior development of relations between Christian and Jewish Greeks. Second, Lagos argues that that the treatment of Jews by Greek Christians during the deportations should not be seen as a culmination of their treatment under Metaxas. On the contrary: the Metaxas dictatorship was the last period of peaceful Christian-Jewish relations before the Holocaust, something for which Metaxas himself was credited: in November 1937, he was inducted into the Golden Book by the Zionists of Greece, and the rabbi of Thessaloniki congratulated Metaxas on reestablishing an atmosphere of peace and calm for the Jewish community since taking power the year before. At first glance, when seen in a European context where most authoritarian regimes enacted <strong>[End Page 127]</strong> anti-Jewish legislation, this may appear as a conundrum; even more so because the Metaxas dictatorship resembled the regimes in Germany and Italy in its way of presenting itself to the public. Yet the regime's stance toward Jews was in fact much more favorable than that of previous governments, including those of Eleftherios Venizelos, the leader of the Liberal Party who had previously governed Greece in long stints since 1910. This raises two questions: How should we understand the Metaxas regime, and why did it follow such a different policy compared to contemporary Europe and to previous Greek governments?</p> <p>Lagos's thesis is that prejudice toward
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925796
Alexandros Balasis
Abstract:
World's fairs organized at the turn of the twentieth century offered glimpses into humanity's aspirations for the future. Since they were primarily a place to promote progress and industrialization, one would expect Greek participation in these exhibitions to follow a similar approach. But the country's presence in the international exhibitions in Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), Brussels (1910), and San Francisco (1915) proves that the groups of prominent academics, technocrats, and business leaders who undertook the organization of Greek participation viewed world's fairs less as platforms to demonstrate industrial advancements and more as sites to promote and reinforce their nationalistic ideals. By exhibiting ancient Greek and Byzantine artifacts, Greece's pavilions sought to connect the modern state with its glorious past and reaffirm its European identity. The organizers' alternative viewpoint on what can represent modernity challenges our understanding of the Greek interpretation of modernization. Contrary to the prevailing notions in Greek historiography that linked modernity exclusively with industrialization, the exhibits displayed by the country abroad prompt a reconsideration of our interpretation of Greek progress, highlighting the influence of the irredentist concept of the Great Idea.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925799
Simos Zenios
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Cypriot collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance poems</em> ed. by Paschalis M. Kitromilides, and: <em>Studies on the Cypriot Collection of Renaissance poems</em> ed. by Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Simos Zenios (bio) </li> </ul> Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Πασχάλης Μ. Κιτρομηλίδης), editor, <em>Η κυπριακή συλλογή πετραρχικών και άλλων αναγεννησιακών ποιημάτων</em> [ <em>The Cypriot collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance poems</em>]. Introduction by Elsie Tornaritou-Mathiopoulou (Έλση Τορναρίτου-Μαθιοπούλου). Accompanying texts by Giovanna Carbonaro and Irene Papadaki (Ειρήνη Παπαδάκη). Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2018. Pp. 335. Paper €25.00. Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa (Μαρίνα Ροδοσθένους-Μπαλάφα), editor, <em>Μελέτες για την κυπριακή</em> Συλλογή <em>αναγεννησιακών ποιημάτων</em> [ <em><span>Studies on the Cypriot</span> Collection <span>of Renaissance poems</span></em>]. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2022. Pp. 153. Paper €20.00. <p>The two publications under review are the latest to appear in the National Hellenic Research Foundation's Sources of Cypriot Learning and History series, which, under the general editorship of Paschalis M. Kitromilides, has made difficult-to-find and valuable texts from early modern Cyprus accessible to scholars and students. Both these publications depart, in different ways, from the established character of the series. The earlier volume, <em>The Cypriot Collection of Petrarchist and Other Renaissance Poems</em> (henceforth, <em>The Cypriot Collection</em>), edited by Kitromilides, publishes the well-known anonymous collection of 156 poems in codex <em>Marc. gr</em>. IX 32, created between circa 1550 and 1570/71, together with a number of introductory studies, both new and previously published. The collection is well known even to non-specialist scholars and the broader public. It is the crowning achievement of early modern Cypriot literature and it represents the most direct and innovative engagement with Petrarchism that is attested in early modern Greek literature. The collection has been published before: first, accompanied by a French translation, in Siapkara-Pitsillidès 1952 (second edition in 1975; also, Siapkaras-Pitsillidès 1976, with translation into modern Greek and intended for a non-specialist audience) and, more recently, in <strong>[End Page 108]</strong> Carbonaro 2012, an edition that relies upon and proposes corrections to the text established by Siapkaras-Pitsillidès and which is accompanied by a translation into Italian. The poems of the collection have also been the object of numerous studies by successive generations of scholars. The second volume under review, <em>Studies on the Cypriot</em> Collection <em>of Renaissance Poems</em> (henceforth, <em>Studies on
以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：评论者 Paschalis M. Kitromilides 编著的《塞浦路斯彼特拉克诗集和其他文艺复兴时期诗集》，以及 Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa 编著的《塞浦路斯文艺复兴时期诗集研究》：研究塞浦路斯文艺复兴时期诗集》，Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa Simos Zenios 编辑（简历） Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Πασχάλης Μ.Κιτρομηλίδης), editor, Η κυπριακή συλλογή πετραρχικών και άλλων αναγενησιακών ποιημάτων [The Cypriot collection of Petrarchist and other Renaissance poems].Elsie Tornaritou-Mathiopoulou (Έλση Τορναρίτου-Μαθιοπούλου) 的介绍。Giovanna Carbonaro 和 Irene Papadaki (Ειρήνη Παπαδάκη) 配文。雅典：希腊国家研究基金会，2018 年。Pp.335.纸张 25.00 欧元。Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa (Μαρίνα Ροδοσθένους-Μπαλάφα), editor, Μελέτες για την κυπριακή Συλλογή αναγεννησιακών ποιημάτων [ 《文艺复兴时期塞浦路斯诗集研究》]。雅典：国家希腊研究基金会，2022 年。Pp.153.153. Paper €20.00.在帕斯卡利斯-M-基特罗米利德斯（Paschalis M. Kitromilides）的总编辑下，这套丛书已使学者和学生能够读到现代早期塞浦路斯难以找到的珍贵文献。这两本出版物以不同的方式偏离了该丛书的既定特色。由基特罗米利德斯编辑的前一卷《塞浦路斯彼特拉克诗歌及其他文艺复兴诗歌集》（以下简称《塞浦路斯诗歌集》）出版了著名的匿名诗歌集，共 156 首，收录于约 1550 年至 1570/71 年间创作的抄本 Marc.该诗集甚至为非专业学者和广大公众所熟知。它是早期现代塞浦路斯文学的最高成就，代表了早期现代希腊文学对彼特拉克主义最直接、最创新的参与。该诗集曾出版过：1952 年出版的 Siapkara-Pitsillidès 版（1975 年第二版；1976 年出版的 Siapkaras-Pitsillidès 版，附有现代希腊文译本，面向非专业读者），以及最近出版的 [End Page 108] Carbonaro 2012 版，该版本依赖于 Siapkaras-Pitsillidès 确立的文本并提出了修改意见，附有意大利文译本。该诗集也是历代学者大量研究的对象。此次评介的第二卷《文艺复兴时期塞浦路斯诗歌集研究》（以下简称《诗集研究》）是前一卷的姐妹篇，由 Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa 编辑，为这一学术体系增添了新的内容；这也是《塞浦路斯学术与历史源流》丛书中第一本完全由学术研究组成的书籍。对这两卷书的评价应考虑到它们的优点和贡献，并与这一领域的（完善的）现状相联系。基特罗米利德斯在《塞浦路斯诗集》（59-176）中刊载的诗歌文本主要以西阿普卡拉-皮茨利德斯版本为基础。主要的不同点在于拼写系统的现代化，更重要的是采用了 Carbonaro 2012 中提出的大部分更正。当然，令人遗憾的是，丛书编辑最初计划收录埃尔西-托纳里托-马蒂奥普卢的文集版本，但最终未能实现。如果能出版一个新版本，并附带批判性说明，将能满足该领域的一大需求。尽管如此，考虑到西阿普卡拉斯-皮茨利德斯的版本早已绝版，而卡波纳罗的版本在书商处又不太容易买到，我们正在审议的这一卷是一个值得欢迎和有用的补充。卡波纳罗还为该书贡献了三个部分："Κριτικό Σημείωμα"（批注，177-196 页）、对该作品集的概述以及对西亚普卡拉-皮齐利德斯文本的建议更正清单；"Οι ιταλικές πηγές"（《意大利诗歌来源》，197-244 年），提供了被确定为塞浦路斯诗歌来源或范本的意大利诗歌文本；以及 "Γλωσσάριο"（《术语表》，245-287 年）。其中前两个部分再现了卡波纳罗自己版本中相应部分的主要内容。第三部分是专为本卷制作的。资料来源和词汇部分，尤其是它们与诗歌之间方便的交叉引用，对研究这部诗集特别有用。托尔纳里图马蒂奥普洛的 "Προτάσεις και παράμετροι για μια νέα έκδοση του κυπριακού αναγενησιακούcanzoniere της Μαρκιανής"（《关于新版塞浦路斯文艺复兴时期马西亚纳诗歌的建议和参数》）、该书于 1993 年首次出版，Kitromilides 的简短序言之后是导言 (15-58)。编者认为该书......
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925806
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributor <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>Alexandros Balasis</strong> is a PhD candidate in History at York University, Toronto. He is interested in modern Greek history, having studied issues of modernity and nationalism. His current research centers around transoceanic migration, focusing on migrants' agency and their interactions with migration policies.</p> <p><strong>Dušan I. Bjelić</strong> is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine. His research interests include Balkan studies with an emphasis on the Balkans' relation to Europe in light of the Balkans' history of racial capitalism. He is the co-editor, with Obrad Savić, of <em>Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation</em> (MIT Press, 2003); the author of <em>Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry</em> (Routledge, 2011) and <em>Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis</em> (Palgrave, 2017); and the editor of <em>Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe</em> (Routledge, 2019).</p> <p><strong>Karen Emmerich</strong> is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she currently directs the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. She is also a translator of Greek poetry, prose, and drama. She is the author of <em>Literary Translation and the Making of Originals</em> (2017) and has translated books by Miltos Sachtouris, Eleni Vakalo, Yannis Ritsos, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Christos Ikonomou, Amanda Michalopoulou, and others.</p> <p><strong>Sofia Fragoulopoulou</strong> holds two postgraduate degrees, one in the domain of cultural management (Department of Communication, Media, and Culture, Panteion University) and one in the domain of cultural anthropology (Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University). She also holds a PhD in the History of Museums and Collections from the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is working as an archaeologist in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Her research interests include the interconnections between material culture and cultural memory and the history of women in the field of archaeology.</p> <p><strong>Thomas W. Gallant</strong> is Distinguished Professor and holder of the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History at the University of California San Diego. He has published extensively on modern Greek social and economic history and historical archaeology.</p> <p><strong>Theodoros Kouros</strong> is Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology. His primary research interests include state and statecraft, bureaucracy, and resistance tactics and strategies.</p> <p><strong>Tomasz Lidzbarski</strong> is a PhD cand
以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要： 撰稿人亚历山大-巴拉西斯（Alexandros Balasis）是多伦多约克大学历史学博士生。他对希腊现代史很感兴趣，曾研究过现代性和民族主义问题。他目前的研究以跨洋移民为中心，重点关注移民的能动性及其与移民政策的互动。Dušan I. Bjelić 是南缅因州大学社会学教授。他的研究兴趣包括巴尔干研究，重点是根据巴尔干种族资本主义的历史研究巴尔干与欧洲的关系。他与 Obrad Savić 共同编辑了《巴尔干作为隐喻：全球化与分裂之间》（麻省理工学院出版社，2003 年）；著有《巴尔干正常化》（Normalizing the Balkans）：精神分析和精神病学的地缘政治学》（Routledge，2011 年）和《中毒、现代性和殖民主义》（Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism：弗洛伊德的工业无意识，本雅明的大麻模拟》（Palgrave，2017 年）；以及《新自由主义灾难时期的巴尔干跨国主义》（Routledge，2019 年）的编辑。卡伦-艾默里奇是普林斯顿大学比较文学副教授，目前负责翻译和跨文化交流项目。她还是希腊诗歌、散文和戏剧的翻译家。她是《文学翻译与原创的形成》（Literary Translation and the Making of Originals，2017 年）一书的作者，并翻译过米尔托斯-萨赫图里斯（Miltos Sachtouris）、埃莱尼-瓦卡洛（Eleni Vakalo）、扬尼斯-里索斯（Yannis Ritsos）、埃尔西-索蒂罗普洛斯（Ersi Sotiropoulos）、克里斯托斯-伊科诺穆（Christos Ikonomou）、阿曼达-米哈洛普罗（Amanda Michalopoulou）等人的著作。索菲亚-弗拉古洛普罗拥有两个研究生学位，一个是文化管理学位（潘提翁大学传播、媒体和文化系），另一个是文化人类学学位（潘提翁大学社会人类学系）。她还拥有雅典国立卡波迪斯特里安大学历史与考古系博物馆与收藏史博士学位。她目前在希腊文化部担任考古学家。她的研究兴趣包括物质文化与文化记忆之间的相互联系以及考古学领域的女性历史。Thomas W. Gallant 是加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校希腊现代史特聘教授和尼古拉斯家族捐赠讲座教授。他在希腊现代社会经济史和历史考古学方面发表了大量著作。Theodoros Kouros 是塞浦路斯科技大学通信和互联网研究系讲师。他的主要研究兴趣包括国家和国家机器、官僚主义以及抵抗策略和战略。托马斯-利兹巴尔斯基（Tomasz Lidzbarski）是格但斯克大学（University of Gdansk）文化与宗教研究专业的博士生，同时也是该校文化研究所（Institute of Cultural Research）的教学和研究助理。他目前的学术兴趣包括波兰人向希腊的现代移民，尤其关注波兰人融入整个爱奥尼亚群岛的情况。Lydia Papadimitriou 是利物浦约翰摩尔斯大学电影研究专业的讲师（副教授）。她的研究重点是希腊和巴尔干电影，尤其关注银幕和媒体产业。她是《希腊电影音乐剧》（2006 年）的作者，也是《希腊电影：文本、形式与身份》（2011 年）和《当代巴尔干电影：跨国交流与全球循环》（2020 年）的共同编辑。2015 年至 2022 年间，她担任《希腊媒体与文化期刊》的主编。她发表过多篇文章和章节，内容涉及电影融资、联合制作、（数字）发行和电影节等主题。莫根斯-佩尔特（Mogens Pelt），博士和哲学博士，哥本哈根大学萨克森研究所国际历史副教授，曾任雅典丹麦研究所所长。他目前正在领导 "希腊革命与欧洲共和主义，1815-1830 年 "研究项目（丹麦独立研究基金），并与 Catharina Raudvere 教授共同担任哥本哈根大学现代性多条道路研究中心（嘉士伯基金会）"东南欧转型与奥斯曼遗产 "研究小组的主任。2008-2009 年，他是普林斯顿大学希腊研究项目的 Stanley J. Seeger 研究员。2007-2008 年，他被派往丹麦议会为调查丹麦安全情报局而成立的委员会工作。Jay K. Rosengard 是哈佛大学肯尼迪学院（HKS）公共政策兼职讲师，在设计、实施和评估公共财政和财政战略、税收和预算改革、市政财政和管理、政府间财政关系、银行和金融机构发展、金融包容性等发展政策方面拥有五十年的国际经验。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925800
Karen Emmerich
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Condemned</em> by Konstantinos Theotokis, and: <em>Niki</em> by Christos Chomenidis, and: <em>Time Stitches</em> by Eleni Kefala <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Karen Emmerich (bio) </li> </ul> Konstantinos Theotokis, <em>Condemned</em>. Translated by Susan and Miltiades Matthias. Foreword by Vangelis Calotychos. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing, 2021. Pp. 157. Paper $21.95. Christos Chomenidis, <em>Niki</em>. Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito. New York: Other Press, 2023. Pp. 482. Paper $18.99. Eleni Kefala, <em>Χρονορραφία/</em> <em>Time Stitches</em>. Translated by Peter Constantine. Dallas, TX: Phoneme Media and Deep Vellum, 2022. Pp. 199. Paper $15.95. <p>Many of us in the field of Modern Greek Studies who teach at colleges and universities in North America have long lamented the fact that Greek language programs (where they exist at all) are often small, understaffed, and underfunded, such that only the lucky few are able to take courses beyond the second year, while more robust programs in other, more commonly taught non-English languages can offer topics courses in which students read, speak, and write primarily or exclusively in those languages. For fields like ours, translations play outsized roles; virtually no class in Modern Greek Studies could exist without them, but we remain hampered in our teaching and research alike by the paucity of readily available texts in translation, particularly of Greek-language scholarship in all the disciplines that comprise our interdisciplinary field. Still, while there are countless texts that many of us would love to see translated, and existing translations that we would love to see reprinted, the wealth of recently published English-language translations of Greek-language literary texts is a fact to be celebrated.</p> <p>The present review will offer brief thoughts on a few such translations, while also highlighting the work of particular translators and publishing houses that have been steadily expanding the available offerings for educators, students, and general readers. It also has the aim of encouraging all of us in the field to make a habit of familiarizing ourselves with recent publications and incorporating newly available texts into our courses: course adoptions can have a significant effect on book sales and thus on a publisher's willingness to take risks on other Greek-language works in future. For better or for worse, many publishers <em>do</em> still think of book sales in these terms—and the more we do as an academic community to support individual works translated from Greek, the greater the effect we will likely have on the entire field of Greek-language literature in translation.</p> <p>My review takes up for discussion three quite heterogeneous books: Susan and Miltiadis Matthias's translation of Konstantinos Theotokis's 19
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925795
Sofia Fragoulopoulou
Abstract:
In the summer of 1921, the Greek armies had succeeded in occupying part of Greece's claimed territories in Asia Minor. Although the outcome of the Greco-Turkish war had yet to be decided, the Greek minister of military affairs proposed that a public war memorial park be constructed in Athens, a park-monument where the Asia Minor locations under Greek control would be presented metonymically. The project, visualized on a detailed map, foresaw the transport of ancient Greek antiquities from Asia Minor and their selective positioning in the park so as to create a spatio-temporal miscellany. In the proposed memorial park, space, time, and Greek antiquity were to produce a new locus, a memoryscape, that went beyond existing frontiers and outside experienced time. The plan to create a cultural mnemonic marker monumentalizing the Asia Minor Campaign sought not only to shape the national identity but also to proclaim and promote Greece's demand for annexation of the Asia Minor territories.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925805
Theodoros Kouros
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus</em> by Theodoros Rakopoulos <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Theodoros Kouros (bio) </li> </ul> Theodoros Rakopoulos, <em>Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus</em>. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 262. 21 illustrations, 2 tables. Hardcover £85.00. <p>In this groundbreaking and well written monograph, Rakopoulos undertakes a pioneering exploration into the intricate realm of the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program of the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). This seminal work stands out as the first monograph to scrutinize comprehensively a phenomenon not confined to the borders of the RoC or the European Union, that of the so-called "golden passports"—schemes that grant citizenship rights to people who invest a certain amount of money in the country that grants the citizenship. Driven by meticulous ethnographic research and an anthropologist's discerning eye for detail and meaning, Rakopoulos's narrative not only dissects the operational mechanics of the RoC's CBI program but also untangles the complex web of social, cultural, and economic implications entwined with the commodification of citizenship.</p> <p>This first ethnographic exploration of investment migration illuminates the global mobility of elites while challenging established notions of citizenship. Rakopoulos contends that the dynamics of citizenship are profoundly entrenched in local contexts. Through insightful ethnographic fieldwork with both the "makers" (local brokers) and the "takers" (international investor-clients), the author delves into the multifaceted nature of citizenship transactions. A key revelation in the monograph has to do with the impact of crisis discourse, rather than the materiality of crisis, on the formulation of cash-for-passports schemes (223), and the monograph thus challenges conventional perspectives on material crises. Furthermore, Rakopoulos asserts that the sale of citizenship involves a complex interplay of political and economic valuations, with repercussions for global inequality, the real estate industry, and local societies.</p> <p>The case study of the RoC sheds light on the tangible effects of citizenship commodification, including the proliferation of iconic "passport towers," especially in Limassol. The ensuing impacts on local rents, environmental degradation, and corruption demonstrate the intricate layers of the phenomenon. The monograph advocates for a comparative examination of citizenship-by-investment schemes on a global scale, in order to comprehend citizenship's evolution amid the forces of globalization and neoliberalism. In a thought-provoking conclusion, Rakopoulos questions whether contemporary analyses of citizenship overlook its historical link with property, positing that <strong>
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925797
Tomasz Lidzbarski
Abstract:
Polish migrants on Zakynthos, who form a largely understudied group within the broader category of non-Greek Europeans residing long-term in Greece, craft intricate views of what they consider the "Greek lifestyle." Ethnographic fieldwork not only reveals how the Polish community on Zakynthos defines this specific way of life but also highlights how these particular perceptions significantly influence decisions to migrate and settle on the island.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925801
Michalis Sotiropoulos
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821</em> ed. by April Kalogeropoulos Householder <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Michalis Sotiropoulos (bio) </li> </ul> April Kalogeropoulos Householder, editor, <em>Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821</em>. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. xix + 381. 46 illustrations, 1 map. Cloth $120.00. <p>As expected, the bicentenary of the start of the Greek Revolution of 1821 was an incentive for scholars to revisit the topic. The book under review is one of the many new studies that were published as a result—for example, the recent volumes edited by Kitromilides (2021), by Kitromilides and Tsoukalas (2021), and by Cartledge and Varnava (2022). What makes the volume under review stand out are, first, the interdisciplinary perspective it adopts in approaching its subject matter, and, second, the subject matter itself—the book's concentration on none other than Laskarina Bouboulina, one of the "heroines" of the Revolution. Among many recent books (including monographs) touching on key protagonists of the Revolution, this is, to my knowledge, the only one that focuses on a woman and that therefore gives due weight to gender as a category of analysis—this in itself is a very important addition to the literature on 1821. The volume is also interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together historians, <strong>[End Page 121]</strong> art historians, scholars of film and literary studies, and ethnomusicologists, as well as archivists and other professionals. Indeed, the volume focuses less on Bouboulina herself than on the heroine's afterlives; on the ways in which she has been commemorated or forgotten; on how she has been depicted in art, film, songs, and poems both in Greece and elsewhere; and on how these depictions have been used and received by philhellenic movements around the world.</p> <p>These themes are brought together by the editor, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, in the introduction to the volume and in a following chapter on the available primary and secondary sources on Bouboulina. These two introductory essays contain important theoretical and historiographical insights, especially on the main tropes that have characterized Bouboulina's depictions, on the significance of adopting an interdisciplinary perspective in order to make sense of these depictions, and on the reasons why Bouboulina has been marginalized in the historiography of the Greek Revolution. But these two essays also contain, here and there, claims that some may disagree with, one key example being some formulaic arguments about the backwardness of Greek society under the Ottomans and the role of women in this society—a line of argument that goes back to the 1960s–1970s and to studies of
以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：评论者： Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution：Michalis Sotiropoulos (bio) April Kalogeropoulos Householder 编辑，《布布利娜与希腊革命：1821 年女英雄的跨学科视角》：关于 1821 年女英雄的跨学科视角》。Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023。第 xix + 381 页。46 幅插图，1 幅地图。Cloth $120.00.不出所料，1821 年希腊革命爆发二百周年纪念促使学者们重新审视这一主题。本书是由此而出版的众多新研究成果之一--例如，基特罗米利迪斯（Kitromilides）（2021 年）、基特罗米利迪斯和祖卡拉斯（Kitromilides and Tsoukalas）（2021 年）以及卡特利奇和瓦尔纳瓦（Cartledge and Varnava）（2022 年）最近编辑的新书。本评论集之所以与众不同，首先是因为它在探讨主题时采用了跨学科的视角，其次是主题本身--书中的主角正是大革命的 "女英雄 "之一拉斯卡里娜-布布里纳（Laskarina Bouboulina）。据我所知，在近期许多涉及大革命主要人物的书籍（包括专著）中，这是唯一一本以女性为研究对象的书籍，因此该书将性别作为一个分析类别给予了应有的重视--这本身就是对有关 1821 年的文献的一个非常重要的补充。该书还具有跨学科性质，汇集了历史学家、[第121页完]艺术史学家、电影和文学研究学者、民族音乐学家以及档案管理员和其他专业人士。事实上，这本书的重点不是布布里娜本人，而是女主人公的后世；她是如何被纪念或遗忘的；希腊和其他地方的艺术、电影、歌曲和诗歌是如何描绘她的；以及世界各地的希腊运动是如何利用和接受这些描绘的。编辑艾普丽尔-卡洛杰罗普洛斯-豪斯霍斯德（April Kalogeropoulos Householder）在该书的导言和随后关于布布里娜的第一手和第二手资料的章节中将这些主题汇集在一起。这两篇介绍性文章包含了重要的理论和史学见解，尤其是关于布布利纳的主要描写特征、采用跨学科视角来理解这些描写的意义以及布布利纳在希腊革命史学中被边缘化的原因。不过，这两篇文章中也不乏一些可能会引起某些人异议的观点，其中一个重要的例子就是关于奥斯曼帝国统治下希腊社会的落后性以及妇女在这个社会中的角色的一些公式化论点--这种论点可以追溯到 20 世纪 60-70 年代，以及以当时盛行的现代化范式为依据的希腊社会研究。但是，正如许多其他研究（包括最新研究和较早的研究）所表明的那样，革命前后的希腊社会要比这些观点让我们相信的复杂得多，也不那么单一。Asdrachas（2003 年），尤其是 Doxiadis（2012 年）等著作不仅证明了希腊世界是相当分散的，而且这种地方多样性也反映在妇女的地位上。我也不确定以女性为重点的资料（如索提里亚-阿里贝尔蒂的著作）是否都应被视为女性主义作品。本卷的第一部分包括两篇关于菲勒斯主义的文章。第一篇是莫琳-康纳斯-桑特利（Maureen Connors Santelli）撰写的一篇引人入胜的文章，文章通过研究报纸、书籍、小册子以及国会和外交报告，探讨了希腊女英雄布布利娜在美国受到的争议。下一篇文章由亚历山大-格拉马蒂科斯（Alexander Grammatikos）撰写，更具史学性质，它试图解释大革命中女性人物缺席的原因。格拉马蒂科斯将责任归咎于浪漫主义菲勒斯主义及其对革命的 "异性恋观念"，并借鉴了文化研究的最新趋势，即菲勒斯主义、东方主义和殖民主义之间的关联。不过，他对拜伦的关注多于对布布利纳的关注，人们只能期待他对后者有更全面的论述。[第 2 部分的三篇文章讨论了布布里纳的特殊代表性。莎伦-格斯特尔（Sharon Gerstel）的一篇精彩文章讨论了布布里纳的各种形象--年轻而女性化、好战的领袖、卡佩塔尼萨（Kapetanissa）、...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-30DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2024.a925798
Thomas W. Gallant
<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Rethinking Greek Genius:<span>Reflections on <em>Demon Entrepreneurs</em><sup>1</sup></span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Thomas W. Gallant (bio) </li> </ul> <p>This fascinating collection of essays examines "Greek genius" from various angles and interpretive stances. The concept is rooted in two stereotypes: the resourceful and clever Odysseus from Homer's epics and the deceitful Sinon from Virgil's works. Collectively, the essays argue that the Greek genius is closely tied to economic success, with shipping and commerce playing a crucial role in spreading Enlightenment ideas and fostering political emancipation in Greek lands. The argument suggests a reciprocal relationship between economic success and education, with each reinforcing the other. The volume also emphasizes the persistence of the Greek genius stereotype as a myth of redemption despite Greece's limited resources and uncertain prospects. Nations have traditionally crafted self-images of their character that define them and distinguish them from others. British reserve and stalwartness, for example, are captured in the phrase "stiff upper lip." Americans have crafted a self-conception around concepts such as "rugged individualism" and "the self-made man." For Greeks, the equivalent is the idea of the Greek genius, and this richly textured collection explores the content and impact of the concept on the political, social, and economic levels. It contributes to the broader discussion surrounding the history of Greek identity, particularly its complex interplay with cultural stereotypes, economic factors, and education.</p> <p>In addition to discussing the structure and content of the volume, Gounaris, in his introduction, grapples with the thorny issue of what constitutes the "Greek genius" and how the phrase's meaning has changed over the ages. Translating Ἑλληνικὸν δαιμόνιον from ancient Greek to modern English is a challenging task because it was polyvalent and context-dependent. Gounaris argues that, in ancient Greek, both <em>daimon</em> and <em>daimonion</em> signify "god" or "deity." In modern Greek, they are likewise synonymous and encompass religious and <strong>[End Page 95]</strong> divine connotations as well as exceptional ingenuity in the broader sense of logical and emotional intelligence. Despite the nineteenth-century business opportunities available to diaspora Greeks, the <em>acquired</em> feature of ingenuity in the Greek temperament has been largely overlooked. The Greek character, with its various talents such as shrewdness and cunning, has been well studied, but there has been a tendency to neglect the (re)fashioning of the Greek genius as a constructed trait rather than an inherent one.</p> <p>Part 1 of the book, "Beware of the Greeks: From Antiquity to Rediscovery," contains chapters by Evangelos Sakkas, Constantine Theodoridis, Ioannis
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