Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Acknowledgements 11
List of Greek words and acronyms used in the text 13
Preface 15
1. Methodology issues and theoretical starting points 21
Introduction 33
2.1.1 "Underdevelopment" in Greece 39
2.1.2 Middle class as parasitic and extra-institutional mobility 41
2.1.3 On petty bourgeoisism: from criticism to connotations 41
2.2.1 Without a bourgeoisie 48
2.2.2 Ideotype of Greek petty bourgeoisism 55
2.3 Fieldwork in Kato Toumba 59
2.4 Modernization, urbanization and ideological "civilizing": an anthropological reading 63
2.5 Space and objects in the discourses and practices of the noikokyraioi from Thessaloniki 66
Introduction 71
3.1 The paradigm of Thessaloniki 76
3.2.1 Poverty, deprivation and strategies to recover a lost world 78
3.2.2 Short personal and family stories about homes and belongings. Stories of extreme poverty and refugeeism 82
3.2.3 Efforts of integration and adaptation in the first post-war years 98
3.2.4 Antiparochi as miraculous adaptation 104
Introduction 112
3.3.1 Speaking with a main informant on the fringes of the city center 116
3.3.2 "Good homes" and architectural heritage of the city: conflicting public discourses 120
3.3.3 Living in the center: life history 123
Introduction 135
Introduction 140
4.1.1 Strategies and practices of integration into a "noikokyremeno" lifestyle. The case of Maria from Toumba 143
4.1.2 Gender-based performances of the modern. The case of Vasiliki from the second generation of women from Toumba 158
4.1.3 Homes of "prokopi" and "dignity". Social relations intermediated by material things 166
4.1.4 The concept of "noble" and "aristocratic" as a normative decoration standard in the homes of noikokyraioi 172
4.2 The counterexample: "peasants" and "migrants from Germany" in Toumba of "eastern suburbs" 182
Introduction 201
5.1.1 "In the 1960s, I already had a dishwasher and a mixer, my sweetheart". Objectifications of the "modern" in the example of Antigoni 213
Introduction 226
5.2.1 Settlement of refugees or corruption? The production of benefactor citizen through representations of practices of trespassing of public property 235
5.2.2 "Settlement" of the "benefactor" citizen and public interest 245
5.2.3 The social reproduction of noikokyraios through practices of trespassing of public property in the post-war context of reconstruction 251
Conclusions 269
Introduction 277
Archives 298
Greek TV series 298
Journalistic articles 298
Filmography 299
Electronic resources 299
Albums 300
List of Figures 301