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Following a spatially ascending order, this final chapter attempts to illustrate the results of this research on three different levels. Firstly, local social struggles are confirmed as having successfully formulated an anti-neoliberal discourse both in Exarchia and the city of Athens, acting within a process of reciprocal nourishment. Secondly, the dialectic between austerity and democracy is disclosed as having symbolically generated two opposing discursive formations centred around the piazza, one of dominion and one of resilience, in a sort of clash between eros (desire) and thanatos (death). Lastly, the role of Athens as a laboratory for debt politics is addressed on a macro-scale, thus configuring a spatialisation of the conflict and bringing Mediterranean cities into the spotlight of the new global (dis)order.
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Cappuccini, M. (2018). Conclusions. In: Austerity & Democracy in Athens. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64128-7_11
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