Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis

Public Discourses and Attitudes in Greece during the Crisis
Author: Dimitris Katsikas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351743805

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This book presents the findings of new empirical research regarding shifts in public discourses and attitudes in Greek society as a result of the crisis. These findings have shown different shades of Euroscepticism and anti-German sentiments, but they have also revealed a normative conflict within Greek society itself. The book shows how economic crises and strict policy conditionality, causing or deepening economic recession in the countries receiving it, has the potential to set in motion a fragmentation process, which transcends standard material stratification and relates to broader political and even cultural rifts among the population. With this, the book serves as a case study of the impact of wider pressures and shifts weighing upon the European Union (EU) and the way European societies perceive the integration process. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, Greek and Southern European studies and more broadly to cultural and comparative politics and political economy and European politics.

Greece in Crisis

Greece in Crisis
Author: Ourania Hatzidaki
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265682

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Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in which the crisis has been communicated to the public by domestic policymakers or debated by elite, non-elite and resistant participants. Crisis discourses are also examined in the light of the rise of neo-nationalism and the extreme Right in both Greece and Cyprus. All contributions seek to meaningfully combine critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives for a better understanding of the Greek crisis as a socio-economic episode and as a discourse construct. Discourse-driven quantification and corpus-driven quantification complement each other in the critical examination of textual data as diverse as official government communications, party leader speeches, newspaper articles, public assembly resolutions, song lyrics, social media commentary and terrorist proclamations.

Authoritarianism on the Front Page

Authoritarianism on the Front Page
Author: Dimitris Serafis
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027253277

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This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple ‘crises’ in Greece. At the same time, it aspires to outline novel research avenues for scholars working in the fields of critical discourse and argumentation studies, multimodality and communication studies, that go beyond the study of the meaning potential of multimodal artifacts and focus on the study of the argumentative inferences that are triggered by multimodal discourses in polarized contexts. It frames the theoretical discussion based on concepts such as Nikos Poulantzas’ ‘authoritarian statism’ as well as Antonio Gramsci’s ‘hegemony’ and ‘intellectuals’. Methodologically, it draws on the agenda of multimodal critical discourse analysis, integrating principles and tools from social semiotics and (multimodal) argumentation studies with a particular focus on inference in argumentation.

Living Under Austerity

Living Under Austerity
Author: Evdoxios Doxiadis
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785339338

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Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the “crisis” era as the context for changing attitudes and developments within Greek society.

South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis

South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
Author: Jean-Michel Lafleur
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 331939763X

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This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis. Its objective is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new Southern European emigration and examines these migrants’ socio-economic integration in Northern European destination countries. This is achieved through an analysis of the most recent data on flows and profiles of this new labour force using sending-country and receiving-country databases. Second, it looks at the politics and policies of immigration, both from the perspective of the sending- and receiving-countries. Analysing the policies and debates about these new flows in the home and host countries’ this book shows how contentious the issue of intra-EU mobility has recently become in the context of the crisis when the right for EU citizens to move within the EU had previously not been questioned for decades. Overall, the strength of this edited volume is that it compiles in a systematic way quantitative and qualitative analysis of these renewed Southern European migration flows and draws the lessons from this changing climate on EU migration.

The "Greek Crisis" in Europe

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Author: Yiannis Mylonas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Financial crises
ISBN: 9789004409170

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The "Greek Crisis" in Europe: Race, Class and Politics, analyses the publicity of the so-called "Greek crisis" by deploying critical theory and cultural studies perspectives. The study discloses racial and class media biases, and their associations with austerity.

The Politics of Extreme Austerity

The Politics of Extreme Austerity
Author: G. Karyotis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781137369222

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This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe.

New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought

New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought
Author: Trine Stauning Willert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317087798

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New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought brings to the light and discusses a strand in contemporary Greek public debate that is often overlooked, namely progressive religious actors of a western orientation. International - and Greek - media tend to focus on the extreme views and to categorise positions in the public debate along well known dichotomies such as traditionalists vs. modernsers. Demonstrating that in late modernity, parallel to rising nationalisms, there is a shift towards religious communities becoming the central axis for cultural organization and progressive thinking, the book presents Greece as a case study based on empirical field data from contemporary theology and religious education, and makes a unique contribution to ongoing debates about the public role of religion in contemporary Europe.

The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens

The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens
Author: Christian Lahusen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000288315

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This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between social and political divisions, it shows that an integrated Europe promotes consensus but also propagates growing dissent among its citizens, with both objective inequalities and the subjective perception of these inequalities fuelling political dissent. Based on original data sets developed from two EU-funded projects across eight and nine European countries, the volume demonstrates the important role played by the social structure of European social space in conditioning political attitudes and preferences. It shows, in particular, that Europeans are highly sensitive to unequal living conditions between European countries, thus affecting their political support of national politics and the European Union. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in Europe and the European Union, European integration and political sociology.