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The collapse of the Icelandic banking system, the bankruptcy of Latvia, the state debt (and deficit) crises of Ireland, Greece, and Portugal, and the near collapse of the Spanish banking sector are just some of the European predicaments that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. This event precipitated a global crisis that has demonstrated David Harvey’s claim that capitalist crises are never solved; they are moved around ‘from one part of the world to another and from one kind of problem to another’ (Enigma: 262). In this way, Harvey continues, the post-2008 crisis moved from banks to state debt (262), which in turn caused a wave of austerity plans in exchange for rescue packages, particularly in the weaker economies of the European periphery (Lapavitsas et al.: 5). The policies of austerity, presented as the only alternative to the economic crisis, then led several economies into further and deeper recession (Varoufakis: 208).
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
(Benjamin, Arcades: 667)
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Hager, P. (2013). Dramaturgies of Crisis and Performances of Citizenship: Syntagma Square, Athens. In: Hopkins, D.J., Solga, K. (eds) Performance and the Global City. Performance Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367853_13
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