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Examines the crisis surrounding national identity in Greece. After noting the centrality of racial purity & religious homogeneity in Greek identity, an overview of immigration to Greece is provided; the country, like other EU members, is grappling with the relationship of state & society to long-term foreign residents. Challenges to Greek identity are made manifest in a discussion of two incidents involving decisions by (1) an independent administrative agency that requiring the inclusion of religious affiliation on adult identity cards violates a law on the protection of personal data, & (2) secondary school teachers who selected a non-Greek citizen student to carry the flag in the national holiday parade on the basis of his high grades. Why these incidents generated so much controversy is considered. J. Zendejas

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations used in the text and bibliography -- 1 Phrasing the problem -- Introduction -- The Dorians in a 'sociology of knowledge' -- 2 The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view -- The rise and fall of instrumentalism -- Denning the ethnic group -- The genesis and maintenance of ethnic groups -- Summary -- 3 The discursive dimension of ethnic identity -- Ethnic groups in ancient Greece -- Myths of ethnic origins -- The Athenians: Ionians or autochthons? -- Dorians and Herakleidai -- Conclusion -- 4 Ethnography and genealogy: an Argolic case-study -- The ethnic populations of the Argolid -- The genealogies of the Argolid -- Decoding the genealogical grammar -- Staking the Heraklid claim -- Ethnicity and cult: Hera, Herakles and the Herakleidai -- Conclusion -- 5 Ethnicity and archaeology -- Excavating the ethnic group -- Archaeology and the 'Dorian invasion' -- Ethnic groups and archaeological cultures -- The archaeology of social praxis -- Conclusion -- 6 Ethnicity and linguistics -- Scripts and alphabets -- Greek dialect history: a synopsis -- Problematising linguistic diversity -- The Greek attitude to dialect -- The role of language in ethnicity -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Chronological table -- Chronological table of authors cited in the text -- Bibliography -- Index

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the course of action that employees in acquired firms choose to follow. Loyalty, compliance, voice and neglect (LCVN) are four employee behaviors in acquired companies.Design/methodology/approachTwo questionnaires were designed: one was administered to employees of the acquired company and the other to a member of the post‐acquisition managerial team. One hundred and thirty‐five administrative employees in 27 acquired companies in Greece participated in the research.FindingsThe results of the study support that employees decide their course of action based on the cost of their action, the effectiveness of the behaviour and the attractiveness of the company.Research limitations/implicationsThis study concentrated at the individual level to examine the factors affecting employee behaviours. Future research is needed to examine behavioural changes over time and the factors that make employees move from one behavioural category to the other.Practical implicationsThe findings in the paper have implications for organization members facing the challenge of managing human issues in the sensitive phases of an acquisition. Evidence of specific behavioural responses and the factors affecting them is presented.Originality/valueThe present study provides a model for understanding the complex and multiple behavioral choices employees have after an acquisition.

The social turn in second language acquisition (SLA) has led scholars to involve a more social semiotic approach in their research (Johnson, 2004; Ortega, 2013). In heritage language contexts, this means greater attention to learners as individuals who construct, enact, and resist multiple identities in the classroom (Gee, 2000; McKay & Wong, 1996; Norton & Toohey, 2011; Pierce, 1995). For Arabic heritage language learners (HLLs) the question of identity is fraught with complexities across linguistic (Ryding, 1991; Abu-Rabia, 2000), cultural (Temples, 2013), political (Brown, 2009), social (Sehlaoui, 2008) and religious domains. This paper examines the role of religious identity for second-grade Arabic language learners at a K-12 Islamic school. This sociocultural linguistic study highlights the ways in which learners' religious identities intersect, support, and overlap with their social and academic identities in a language course exclusively for Muslim HLLs. Findings point to the ways that identity is negotiated through talk, highlighting how Muslim learners draw on their religious identities in Arabic class to support and strengthen their academic and social identities. Religion can serve as a resource for HLLs even in the absence of ethnic and/or ancestral links to the language given adequate ideological and implementational space (Hornberger, 2005).

The aim of this paper is to describe, analyse and explain the historical emergence of nationalism in Greece. Initially, and in accordance with the modernist approach, we will be arguing that the emergence of the nationalist phenomenon in Greece is inseparably linked with the objective conditions of modernity. The emergence of an educated Greek-speaking middle class, the development of trade and industry, and the diffusion of the liberal, secular and scientific spirit of the Enlightenment in the Greek peninsula, were instrumental factors for the construction of the idea of the nation. In that sense, the Greek nation- like every nation- is an historical and social construction, which emerges as a result of the fundamental split between the pre-modern and the modern.