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Temporal Vertigo and Time Vortices on Greece’s Central Plain (2016)
Journal Article
Knight, D. (2016). Temporal Vertigo and Time Vortices on Greece’s Central Plain. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 33(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.3167/ca.2016.340105

The consequences of prolonged fiscal austerity have left people in Trikala, central Greece, with feelings of intense temporal vertigo: confusion and anxiety about where and when they belong in overarching timelines of pasts and futures. Some people r... Read More about Temporal Vertigo and Time Vortices on Greece’s Central Plain.

Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Knight, D., & Stewart, C. (2016). Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe. History and Anthropology, 27(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2015.1114480

This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural thought, provoking people to rethink their relationship to t... Read More about Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe.

Sun, wind, and the rebirth of extractive economies: renewable energy investment and metanarratives of crisis in Greece (2015)
Journal Article
Argenti, N., & Knight, D. (2015). Sun, wind, and the rebirth of extractive economies: renewable energy investment and metanarratives of crisis in Greece. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21(4), 781-802. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12287

In the midst of economic crisis, the Greek state has taken the unprecedented step of opening many of the nation's closed business sectors to international investors. Opportunities for multinational investment have been most prolific in the arena of r... Read More about Sun, wind, and the rebirth of extractive economies: renewable energy investment and metanarratives of crisis in Greece.

History, Time and Economic Crisis in Central Greece. (2015)
Book
Knight, D. (2015). History, Time and Economic Crisis in Central Greece. Palgrave Macmillan

History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece examines a period when nearly three decades of Greek economic prosperity were suddenly replaced by austerity, crisis, and destitution. Through detailed ethnographic and historical data collected ov... Read More about History, Time and Economic Crisis in Central Greece..

Opportunism and diversification: entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies in uncertain times (2013)
Journal Article
Knight, D. (2015). Opportunism and diversification: entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies in uncertain times. Ethnos, 80(1), 117-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2013.822012

As economic crisis deepens across Europe people are forced to find innovative strategies to accommodate circumstances of chronic uncertainty. Even with a second multi-billion euro bailout package secured for Greece, the prospects of a sustainable rec... Read More about Opportunism and diversification: entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies in uncertain times.

Pandora's Box: photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greece (2013)
Journal Article
Knight, D., & Bell, S. (2013). Pandora's Box: photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greece. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 5(3), Article 033110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807477

The Greek photovoltaic program was launched in 2006 and rebranded in 2011 as a way to repay debt and decrease national deficit. The scheme promotes new livelihood opportunities on all levels, from micro-scale home installations to macro-scale solar p... Read More about Pandora's Box: photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greece.

Famine, suicide and photovoltaics: narratives from the Greek crisis (2013)
Journal Article
Knight, D. (online). Famine, suicide and photovoltaics: narratives from the Greek crisis

The Greek crisis has become the most eminent example of neoliberal economic meltdown over the past five years. In towns across Greece people try to come to terms with drastic changes in their everyday lives and grapple with the the complex mixture of... Read More about Famine, suicide and photovoltaics: narratives from the Greek crisis.