What is it about?
This article explores how and why motorcycling popularized in 1980s Athens changing from a stigmatized lifestyle to a mainstream means of transport.
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Why is it important?
Although this topic has been explored by many journalists, this is the first academic article on the subject and combines sources like interviews, press articles, letters published in magazines etc. It also approaches motorcycles as a commodity that appealed to women and not as a purely male issue.
Perspectives
Being an enthusiastic rider since the late 1990s, I loved studying how previous generations of bikers fought for the destigmatization of motorcycling. I am now looking for a chance to translate this piece into Greek, so that bikers in Athens have easier access to it.
Panagiotis Zestanakis
University of Crete
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This page is a summary of: Motorcycling in 1980s Athens: Popularization, Representational Politics, and Social Identities, Transfers, January 2016, Berghahn Journals,
DOI: 10.3167/trans.2016.060302.
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