Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle (SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action)

Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, __Sappho's Legacy__ identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic culture play in teaching about capitalism's failures and alternatives. Marina Karides delivers a historical and ethnographic account of food cooperatives and microenterprises on the Greek island of Lesvos following the 2008 financial crisis to reveal the success stories of grassroots, traditional, and community-centered economics organized by people marginalized on the basis of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Karides offers hope to others who are working against the tide of neoliberalism and heteropatriarchy to develop alternative or convivial economic practices that serve communities by providing a trail of rhythms from ancient times to the present that showcase Greece's historical resistance. Contents List of Illustrations Preface Part I: Καλωσορισεσ Chapter One Prolegomenon The Organic and Attritional Alterity of Cooperatives and Microenterprises Enterprising Resistance Islandness Sappho’s Lesvos Methodology: Rhythmanalysis A Rhythmanalyst in Lesvos Visits with Women’s Cooperatives Collecting Stories in Skala Eresos A Road Map for Sappho’s Legacy Chapter Two The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Alternative Economics Social Economy Solidarity Economy Localism Community and Diverse Economies Convivial Economics: Organic and Attritional Economic Alterity The Everydayness of the Economy The Importance of Being an Island Summary Chapter Three Of Greek Islands and Microentrepreneurs: Neoliberal Battles and the Marginalization of a Nation Neoliberal Rhythms Greece’s Peripherality The Hellenism of Cooperatives and Microenterprises A Recap Part II: The Rhythm Section Chapter Four For the Love of Strangers and Enterprise Esoteric Island Hospitality The Case of Kerasma Vicissitudes of Foreignness Guests with an Imperial Gaze Conviviality or Informality? Chapter Five The Seasonal Agora: A Gender-Placing Rhythm and a Sexualized Sense of Space Field Stories (Gendered) Never Marry a Greek Women in Ancient Space Coffeehouse Masculinity Kamaki: Local Men and Foreign Women Island Queer Queer, Subaltern, and Economic Synopsis: Gendered Alternatives and Sexualized Economies Chapter Six Island Food Systems: Lessons for the Continent Cultivating Food Studies Transnational Food and Traveling Locavores Eating Locally on Lesvos Caring for Topos Preserving Islandness through Gender and Food Diet: The Island Food Phenomenon Part III: Hospitable Shores Chapter Seven Skala Eresos: From Ancient City-State to Bohemian Seaside Tourist Village Antecedents to Skala Tourist Rhythms Attritional Alternatives: Small Is Beautiful Skala Eresos’s Unconventional Development Alternative Economics and Convivial Place-Making Alterity and the State Smallness and Solidarity Chapter Eight Lesbian Place-Making and the Imperial Gaze Lesbians Land in Skala The Last Day of Camp Lesbian Businesses on the Agora Collaborations in Alterity Skala Eresos’s Heterotopia Chapter Nine The Women’s Cooperatives of Lesvos Cooperative Days “Rain, Coffee, and a Fireplace” “The House Isn’t Enough, It Chokes Us” Success and Survival in the Cooperative Model Cooperatives in Crisis Finale: Women’s Cooperatives as a Liberatory Project Coda Greece after the Crisis? Works Cited Index Winner of the 2023 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Greece in the Women Category Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, Sappho's Legacy identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic culture play in teaching about capitalism's failures and alternatives. Marina Karides delivers a historical and ethnographic account of food cooperatives and microenterprises on the Greek island of Lesvos following the 2008 financial crisis to reveal the success stories of grassroots, traditional, and community-centered economics organized by people marginalized on the basis of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Karides offers hope to others who are working against the tide of neoliberalism and heteropatriarchy to develop alternative or convivial economic practices that serve communities by providing a trail of rhythms from ancient times to the present that showcase Greece's historical resistance. Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, Sappho?s Legacy identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic culture play in teaching about capitalism?s failures and alternatives. Marina Karides offers a historical and ethnographic account of food cooperatives and microenterprises on the Greek island of Lesvos following the 2008 financial crisis to reveal the success stories of grassroots, traditional, and community centered economics organized by people marginalized on the basis of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Karides offers hope to others who are working against the tide of neoliberalism and heteropatriarchy to develop alternative or convivial economic practices that serve communities by providing a trail of rhythms from ancient times to the present that showcase Greece?s historical resistance "Examines women's food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies"-- Provided by publisher