Abstract
Recent scholarship on Southern Europe focuses on economic crisis and contestations of hegemonic economic and political arrangements. Solidarity features prominently in these accounts as a notion of opposition to austerity and recession. This article uses solidarity as an entry point, and then shifts attention to the everyday politics of its enactment in the TEM complementary currency network. The article presents three sets of challenges faced by network members: moral discourses around debt, disregard of communal labour and hierarchies created through economic inequalities among network members. The discussion of these challenges places resistance and solidarity in larger discussions about capitalist economies and hegemonic thought and practice that go beyond the discussion of solidarity in Greece and Southern Europe.
Keywords
austerity, LETS, solidarity, Greece, resistance
How to Cite
Streinzer, A., (2018) “DOING ECONOMIC RELATIONS OTHERWISE”, Ethnologia Europaea 48(1), 69-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.1951