Sussex anthropologist’s project is helping to fight racism in Athens

Sussex anthropologist's project is helping to fight racism in Athens. A rise in racist attacks in Athens since the start of the Greek economic crisis has prompted a University of Sussex anthropologist and his colleagues to use crowdsourcing to help antiracist activity. Dr Dimitris Dalakoglou of Sussex Anthropology and the multimedia designer and researcher Jaya Klara Brekke have launched an online digital map showing areas of the city where racist attacks have happened. The information is updated by individual users, migrant communities and antiracist and antifascist organisations. The map is part of a wider research project, 'The City at a Time of Crisis', which focuses on transformations of public spaces in Athens during Greece's economic troubles. Dr Dalakoglou says: "One of the most shocking phenomena of the Greek crisis is the rise of neo-Nazism. Four years ago, racist attacks would be much rarer.