Responding to the crisis: food co-operatives and the solidarity economy in Greece
Responding to the crisis: food co-operatives and the solidarity economy in Greece
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应对危机：希腊的食品合作社和团结经济
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2013
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Theodoros Rakopoulos
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Theodoros Rakopoulos
这篇文章讨论了希腊民众对强制紧缩和衰退的社会反应。它聚焦于雅典郊区的反中间人运动。它还探讨了当前希腊危机的更广泛图景，解释了这一基层应对措施的参与者如何将他们的活动扩展到食品分配之外，开始想象与希腊目前占主导地位的经济行为和互动模式不同的模式。我探讨了他们的努力，将他们在雅典建立的食品市场转变为一个正式的合作社，通过团结纽带将他们所在社区的消费者与选定的农民直接联系起来，并与其他人合作，创建一个覆盖全国的类似合作社网络。我认为，他们的努力与毛斯和波兰尼等重要社会理论家倡导的合作主义和实用社会主义非常相似，并建议雅典的年轻活动人士更多地了解他们的思想可能很重要。
This article discusses a case of popular social response to imposed austerity and recession in Greece. It focuses on the anti-middleman movement in an Athens suburb. It also addresses the broader picture of the current Greek crisis, explaining how participants in this grassroots response extend their activity beyond food distribution, beginning to imagine modes of economic conduct and interaction different from those currently dominant in Greece. I explore their efforts to turn the food market they have established in Athens into a formal co-operative which links consumers in their neighbourhood directly to selected farmers through bonds of solidarity, and to work with others to create a network of similar co-operatives which will span the whole country. I argue that their endeavours strongly resemble the co-operativism and practical socialism advocated by important social theorists such as Mauss and Polanyi, and suggest that it may be important for the young activists in Athens to learn more about their ideas.