Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork, this book offers rare insight into activist ethnography and the role of emotions and violence in social movement reproduction, with implications extending far beyond the study locale.

Nicholas Apoifis is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Introduction
1. Hellenic turmoil
2. Social movement theory and collective identity
3. Militant ethnography and taking notes in a furnace
4. The early years of Greek anarchism: 'it just doesn't mean anything to me'
5. A contemporary history: 'Fuck May 68, Fight Now!'
6. The anarchist and anti-authoritarian space: tensions and tendencies
7. Street-protests and emotions: a temporary unity
Conclusion: imagining and fighting for alternative realities
Index