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Spaces of transmission: Storytelling and remembrance of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Miranda Iossifidis

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Abstract

This article explores creative remembrance practices within the 39 and 40th commemoration of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising. It draws on interviews, cultural artefacts, and fieldnotes to focus on tactile forms of storytelling with an attentiveness to their potential to generate different affective encounters in a context of prolonged crisis, and rising neo-fascist, structural and police violence. The article discusses the ways in which the annual coming together on the site of the uprising creates a meaningful, intergenerational space of encounter, a time for reflection and sharing discontinuous histories of resistance, oppression, and solidarity. I propose that the specificities of the annual coming together can be considered a “space of transmission,” a concept that brings recent scholarship in urban geography on storytelling and spaces of encounter into dialogue with Walter Benjamin's work on tradition. This article contributes to urban studies through highlighting the importance of sustaining “spaces of transmission” in the context of wider situated practices of everyday urban politics.

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Author(s): Iossifiids MJM

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: City, Culture and Society

Year: 2020

Volume: 22

Online publication date: 21/10/2020

Acceptance date: 07/09/2020

ISSN (print): 1877-9166

ISSN (electronic): 1877-9174

Publisher: Elsevier

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100355

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100355

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