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influencing daily life to one that is now endangering everyday life. This is an example of
one of the ways unconventional citizens are having an influence on mainstream Greek
politics.

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In this chapter I have examined modem Greek socio-political subjectivity, and
mapped an important split between the youth and the rest of Greek society. I have also
shown how the different socio-political experience of the youth population, which
ultimately fosters the development of a popular anti-establishment sentiment, also opens
them to the influence of the anarchist movement. Through the strategic incorporation of
key transnational discourses into the publics the youth consume every day, the anarchist
movement, in turn, inspires the youth population to support their causes (be it casually, or
during public action). The youth are thus, variously, bringing the migrant-friendly, anti-
state, anti-capitalist, militant environmentalist, and generally libertarian discourses the
anarchists produce and channel to mainstream attention (through occupations, protests, in
general attitudes, etc.). The end of this chapter offered a glimpse as to how
unconventional citizens can influence the politics of Greece and offered an interpretation
of recent shifts in the Greek political landscape. The following chapter will focus on the
final group of unconventional citizens this work explores, the Roma. In so doing it will
add yet another layer of complexity to an understanding of the influences shaping
political identity in Greece today.

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