Voices of the Other Greek America – Reflections and a tragic example on the effects of othering

The interest in the Voices of the Other Greek America animates a political project. It directs attention to relations of power when individuals or groups not conforming to dominant norms are rendered as the other.

The othering involves processes of exercising power to control social boundaries and their effects–ostracizing, silencing, punishing; but also of animating resistance to the regulation and subjugation of non-normative subjectivities.

What are the effects of this othering on those who live it? What forms of resistance are deployed and to what end? Ultimately, why is it important to reflect on the Voices of the Others––in our case the voices of the Other Greek America?

One could envision a book on the subject, which i will try to set in motion.

The following piece in Ergon from the distant 2018 illuminates the damaging––in fact lethal––operation of exercising the power of the dominant on non-normative Others. The context is how various forms of violence are exercised in specific sites across the transnational/intercultural field Greece-Greek America with tragic results…

As I note in the writing, the issue of othering raises the question, what kind of diasporic society do we envision and how we work toward its making?

yiorgos anagnostou