Greek Postwar Plastics Consumption as a Female Cultural Phenomenon
This research is historical in nature and concerns the capitalist expansion of the West in post-war Greece using as ‘Trojan Horse’ the plastic products that flooded the domestic market and were associated with new technologies, typologies and a brand-new way of living. The mass import of syntheti...
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| description | This research is historical in nature and concerns the capitalist expansion of
the West in post-war Greece using as ‘Trojan Horse’ the plastic products that
flooded the domestic market and were associated with new technologies,
typologies and a brand-new way of living. The mass import of synthetics,
synonymous with postwar American and European abundance and prosperity, is connected with the almost total overthrow of the strictly traditional social institutions, habits and customs of the Greeks, as well as with the emergence of a new model of cultural consumption based on female purchasing power which was at the same time associated with the female emancipation and independence, especially in the 1960s. The series of subversive developments that sealed, mostly anonymously, the formation of taste, class culture, but also triggered the birth of the domestic plastics industry, unfolds methodically and it is also connected to the political aspect of the ‘western cultural invasion’. Through this research we will be able to identify the introduction of plastic products into the Greek market, society and culture with the aim of prevailing in an aesthetic, practical and symbolic way. This research will also shed light on a totally neglected field of modern Greek cultural and material history connected with the synthetic materials transforming power as regards the female emancipation through consumption. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-109330fa816f48ab80aa492fe070ae502025-08-20T02:15:11ZdeuEditura ARCPlural: History, Culture, Society2345-12622345-184X2024-06-0112110812710.37710/plural.v12i1_5Greek Postwar Plastics Consumption as a Female Cultural Phenomenon Johannis Tsoumas0Georgia Cheirchanteri1University of West Attica, Egaleo Park Campus, GreeceUniversity of West Attica, Ancient Olive Grove Campus, GreeceThis research is historical in nature and concerns the capitalist expansion of the West in post-war Greece using as ‘Trojan Horse’ the plastic products that flooded the domestic market and were associated with new technologies, typologies and a brand-new way of living. The mass import of synthetics, synonymous with postwar American and European abundance and prosperity, is connected with the almost total overthrow of the strictly traditional social institutions, habits and customs of the Greeks, as well as with the emergence of a new model of cultural consumption based on female purchasing power which was at the same time associated with the female emancipation and independence, especially in the 1960s. The series of subversive developments that sealed, mostly anonymously, the formation of taste, class culture, but also triggered the birth of the domestic plastics industry, unfolds methodically and it is also connected to the political aspect of the ‘western cultural invasion’. Through this research we will be able to identify the introduction of plastic products into the Greek market, society and culture with the aim of prevailing in an aesthetic, practical and symbolic way. This research will also shed light on a totally neglected field of modern Greek cultural and material history connected with the synthetic materials transforming power as regards the female emancipation through consumption. https://plural.upsc.md/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/05_Articol-TSOUMAS_CHEIRCHANTERI_108-127-pag.pdfplasticsgreecewomenconsumptionpostwar period |
| spellingShingle | Johannis Tsoumas Georgia Cheirchanteri Greek Postwar Plastics Consumption as a Female Cultural Phenomenon Plural: History, Culture, Society plastics greece women consumption postwar period |
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| topic | plastics greece women consumption postwar period |
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