Securing mobility in the nation: Public order and state reconstruction in postwar Greece
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Securing mobility in the nation: Public order and state reconstruction in postwar Greece
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16 November 2021
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The occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence (1821) has offered a number of historians the opportunity to reflect upon the (re)construction of the nation as well as its various sociohistorical circumstances. A significant period that divides the 20th century into different segments and signalled the nation-building process was that of the end of the German occupation, the Greek Civil War and the years afterwards. Part of an ongoing funded project on the reconstruction of the police forces in Greece after the Second World War, this paper will be concerned with the postwar modes of reconstruction of the Greek state, via analysis of segments of public discourse at the time (daily press, state documents). Our main focus is on an especially distinct aspect of this process, namely the reconstruction of security and discipline mechanisms, the very institutions that were set to control mobility of persons and objects in a country severely affected by the sociopolitical conditions of war; a historical conjuncture where the conflicting perceptions on the future directions the state should take had become a real contested terrain.
(Edited and translated abstract from organiser’s website)
(Edited and translated abstract from organiser’s website)
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