尼古拉斯·阿根蒂（Nicolas Argenti）借鉴了2010年希腊主权债务危机期间对奇奥斯（Chios）进行的研究，追踪了象征着这座爱琴海岛屿发生变化的个人生活。然而，当危机的目击者讲述他们的生活时，他们当前的焦虑和沮丧表现在塑造了奇奥斯戏剧性历史的过去危机上，包括第二次世界大战中的德国占领和随之而来的饥荒，1922-1923年希腊和土耳其之间的人口交换，1822年的大屠杀在希腊独立战争开始时摧毁了该岛。这些叙述中出现的复杂的时间性，隐藏在纪念仪式、欣喜若狂的景象、一年一度的火箭弹战争和其他有助于记忆产生形式的具体实践的文化背景中，这些形式质疑创伤话语的假设，以模糊历史、记忆、宗教和神话之间界限的方式，展示了奇奥斯岛上的居民在时间上积极打造自己的位置。
Remembering Absence: The Sense of Life in Island Greece
Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey of 1922–23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries between historiography, memory, religion, and myth.
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