Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: Καλωσορισεσ
	Chapter One Prolegomenon
		The Organic and Attritional Alterity of Cooperatives and Microenterprises
		Enterprising Resistance
		Islandness
		Sappho’s Lesvos
		Methodology: Rhythmanalysis
		A Rhythmanalyst in Lesvos
			Visits with Women’s Cooperatives
			Collecting Stories in Skala Eresos
		A Road Map for Sappho’s Legacy
	Chapter Two The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
		Alternative Economics
			Social Economy
			Solidarity Economy
			Localism
			Community and Diverse Economies
		Convivial Economics: Organic and Attritional Economic Alterity
			The Everydayness of the Economy
			The Importance of Being an Island
		Summary
	Chapter Three Of Greek Islands and Microentrepreneurs: Neoliberal Battles and the Marginalization of a Nation
		Neoliberal Rhythms
		Greece’s Peripherality
		The Hellenism of Cooperatives and Microenterprises
		A Recap
Part II: The Rhythm Section
	Chapter Four For the Love of Strangers and Enterprise
		Esoteric Island Hospitality
			The Case of Kerasma
		Vicissitudes of Foreignness
			Guests with an Imperial Gaze
		Conviviality or Informality?
	Chapter Five The Seasonal Agora: A Gender-Placing Rhythm and a Sexualized Sense of Space
		Field Stories (Gendered)
		Never Marry a Greek
		Women in Ancient Space
		Coffeehouse Masculinity
			Kamaki: Local Men and Foreign Women
		Island Queer
			Queer, Subaltern, and Economic
		Synopsis: Gendered Alternatives and Sexualized Economies
	Chapter Six Island Food Systems: Lessons for the Continent
		Cultivating Food Studies
		Transnational Food and Traveling Locavores
		Eating Locally on Lesvos
		Caring for Topos
			Preserving Islandness through Gender and Food
		Diet: The Island Food Phenomenon
Part III: Hospitable Shores
	Chapter Seven Skala Eresos: From Ancient City-State to Bohemian Seaside Tourist Village
		Antecedents to Skala
		Tourist Rhythms
		Attritional Alternatives: Small Is Beautiful
			Skala Eresos’s Unconventional Development
		Alternative Economics and Convivial Place-Making
		Alterity and the State
		Smallness and Solidarity
	Chapter Eight Lesbian Place-Making and the Imperial Gaze
		Lesbians Land in Skala
		The Last Day of Camp
		Lesbian Businesses on the Agora
		Collaborations in Alterity
		Skala Eresos’s Heterotopia
	Chapter Nine The Women’s Cooperatives of Lesvos
		Cooperative Days
			“Rain, Coffee, and a Fireplace”
			“The House Isn’t Enough, It Chokes Us”
		Success and Survival in the Cooperative Model
		Cooperatives in Crisis
		Finale: Women’s Cooperatives as a Liberatory Project
Coda
	Greece after the Crisis?
Works Cited
Index