All Outputs (7)

‘In the margins of Europe’ : Cypriot nationalism, liminality and the moral economy of the financial crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2017). ‘In the margins of Europe’ : Cypriot nationalism, liminality and the moral economy of the financial crisis. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 23(1), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1273691

This article argues that Greek Cypriot nationalism has been in large part motivated by the misconceived idea of Cyprus becoming a modern, European society. Although Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, the perception of it by the European north... Read More about ‘In the margins of Europe’ : Cypriot nationalism, liminality and the moral economy of the financial crisis.

Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning (2016)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2017). Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning. History of the Human Sciences, 30(1), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116684310

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Twentieth-century anthropology has been operating with the assumption of one nature and many cultures, one reality experienced and lived in many different ways. Its primary job, therefore, has been to render the othernes... Read More about Ontology, ‘hauntology’ and the ‘turn’ that keeps anthropology turning.

Individualization and the aporias of modernity (2014)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2014). Individualization and the aporias of modernity. International Political Anthropology, 7(2), 3-18

Ulrich Beck’s musings on individualization have been described as a theory that provides a convincing explanation of what is happening in society, but has it seemed convincing because of its superior explanatory power or because it says what those wh... Read More about Individualization and the aporias of modernity.

The philosopher's gift (2007)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2007). The philosopher's gift. Critique of anthropology, 27(3), 301-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X07080358

This article considers Derrida's critique of Mauss's The Gift and the philosopher's argument that the gift is impossible. In the spirit of the gift, the article engages Derrida in a potlatch-like manner and subjects his critique to the same sort of c... Read More about The philosopher's gift.

How Greeks think: about Turks, for example (2006)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2006). How Greeks think: about Turks, for example. South European Society and Politics, 11(1), 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608740500470307

`Reflexive modernization' and other mythical realities (2003)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2003). `Reflexive modernization' and other mythical realities. Anthropological Theory, 3(1), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499603003001750

Tradition, modernity and European hegemony in the Mediterranean (2002)
Journal Article
Argyrou, V. (2002). Tradition, modernity and European hegemony in the Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterranean studies, 12(1), 23-42

This paper argues that tradition and modernity, invented in European societies with an eye both on the European past and the non-European present, are ontological categories which structure the way we think about the world. This means that the world... Read More about Tradition, modernity and European hegemony in the Mediterranean.