https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Wed, 06 May 2020 11:28:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/feeling-the-pulse-of-the-greek-debt-crisis-affect-on-the-web-of-blame/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:52 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/feeling-the-pulse-of-the-greek-debt-crisis-affect-on-the-web-of-blame/ Continued]]> This article examines the affective content of Greek media representations of the debt crisis, from 2009 to 2012. We analyze the content of opinion pieces from journalists, experts and public intellectuals published in Greek newspapers, and identify their affective tone towards political actors and institutions. We focus on anger, fear and hope, and identify blame attribution frames, which underpin the public’s trust and confidence in domestic and European Union institutions. This article contributes to the systematic understanding of the impact of the debt crisis as a traumatic event on public opinion, and considers its implications for attitudes towards European integration.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/on-the-politics-of-queer-resistance-and-survival-athena-athanasiou-in-conversation-with-vassiliki-kolocotroni-and-dimitris-papanikolaou/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:44 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/on-the-politics-of-queer-resistance-and-survival-athena-athanasiou-in-conversation-with-vassiliki-kolocotroni-and-dimitris-papanikolaou/ https://toarcheio.org/items/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%bc%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:43 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%bc%ce%b7%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%b7%ce%bd/ https://toarcheio.org/items/race-and-class-in-german-media-representations-of-the-greek-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:42 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/race-and-class-in-german-media-representations-of-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> Research has shown that the mainstream media coverage of the EU’s economic crisis has been not only offensive and prejudiced for the people of the countries most affected by it, but most crucially, utterly relying on elite understandings of the crisis, as articulated by the political and economic establishment of the EU. Indeed, the hegemonic public framing of the Eurozone crisis followed an ‘Orientalist’ approach, through spectacular narratives stressing cultural and moral failures of ‘national characters’ and exceptional national institutions that are (supposedly) fundamentally different from the ‘European’ cannon. This way, regimes of exception were able to be publicly constructed as plausible explanations for the crisis (as a ‘self-inflicted’ problem by those not following the European norm), and equivalent exceptional policies (such as austerity regimes) to be implemented in the supposedly problematic countries. Drawing on the findings of previous research, this contribution presents the class and racist dimensions of the German mainstream media’s ‘Greek-crisis’ representations, by focusing on the ‘crisis epicenter’, Greece, a country relentlessly targeted and, slandered and shamed by the German media and the German elites in particular. The chapter concludes that both in their light and in their serious versions, the German media publicly construct the so-called Greek crisis in line with the bourgeois and post-democratic principles directing the EU.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/media-and-the-economic-crisis-of-the-eu-the-culturalization-of-a-systemic-crisis-and-bild-zeitungs-framing-of-greece/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:41 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/media-and-the-economic-crisis-of-the-eu-the-culturalization-of-a-systemic-crisis-and-bild-zeitungs-framing-of-greece/ Continued]]> This article critically studies the hegemonic discursive construction of the EU’s current (2012) economic crisis, as it is articulated by political and economic elites and by mass media. The study focuses on the political economy of the particular crisis and through the critical concept of reification, the study emphasizes the hegemonic naturalization of the economic crisis by the “free market” economistic ideology. The article problematizes the positioning of Greece as the “crisis epicentre” in Europe, understanding Greece as a scapegoat and as a laboratory where political strategies of capitalist restructuring of the EU are performed. Through the frame analysis of Bild-zeitung’s headlines on the coverage of crisis-struck Greece, the article discusses a) the “culturalization” of the crisis and the diversion from a structural public debate on the global economic crisis b) the disciplinary function of crisis’ publicity, related to social control and the production of new, neoliberal social subjectivities c) the alienating effect of the culturalist crisis discourses to transnational publics, resulting to the misrecognition of the ideological and structural reasons of the given crisis, the misrecognition of the effects of the crisis and crisis-politics in people’s lives, the misrecognition of popular socio-political struggles in countries worse struck by crisis politics, and the eclipse of transnational solidarity and identification to the common issues that European people in particular are facing.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/intertextuality-and-in-political-jokes/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:40 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/intertextuality-and-in-political-jokes/ Continued]]> The aim of the present study is to explore the interplay between intertextuality and humor in contemporary political jokes. The intertextual allusions included in such texts involve (con)texts projected as ‘shared’ knowledge by joke tellers. However, they may render joke comprehension a demanding task, thus excluding potential joke recipients from the ingroup joke tellers attempt to construct. At the same time, the intertextual presuppositions of political jokes may foster the ideological alignment between joke tellers and joke recipients, as they are based on specific evaluations of sociopolitical affairs, which need to be accepted by recipients wishing to establish coherence. The data examined here comes from a large corpus of the Greek jokes on the current financial crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/refugee-tv-and-refugees-got-talent-projects-affective-and-decolonial-geographies-of-invisible-common-spaces/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:27 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/refugee-tv-and-refugees-got-talent-projects-affective-and-decolonial-geographies-of-invisible-common-spaces/ https://toarcheio.org/items/left-wing-populism-in-the-european-periphery-the-case-of-syriza/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:14 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/left-wing-populism-in-the-european-periphery-the-case-of-syriza/ Continued]]> Due to its electoral performance in the 2012 general elections, SYRIZA, a previously unknown Greek political formation of the radical left, gained unprecedented visibility within the European public sphere. How is this strong showing and the political message articulated by SYRIZA to be interpreted? Utilizing a discursive methodology, this paper puts to the test the two assumptions predominating in most available analyses, namely that SYRIZA articulates a populist rhetoric, that it constitutes a predominantly populist force; and, given the near-exclusive association of populism with extreme right-wing movements, that SYRIZA constitutes a populist danger for Europe. Our analysis concludes that SYRIZA’s discourse is indeed a distinct articulation of left-wing populism. However, this by no means vindicates the second part of the prevailing wisdom: SYRIZA’s portrayal as a dangerous force threatening fundamental European values. If, however, this is the case, then mainstream research orientations in the study of European populism may have to be reviewed.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/populism-anti-populism-and-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:10 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/populism-anti-populism-and-crisis/ Continued]]> This article focuses on two issues involved in the formation and political trajectory of populist representations within political antagonism. First, it explores the role of crisis in the articulation of populist discourse. This problematic is far from new within theories of populism but has recently taken a new turn. We thus purport to reconsider the way populism and crisis are related, mapping the different modalities this relation can take and advancing further their theorization from the point of view of a discursive theory of the political, drawing primarily on the Essex School perspective initially developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Second, this will involve focusing on the antagonistic language games developed around populist representations, something that has not attracted equal attention. Highlighting the need to study anti-populism together with populism, focusing on their mutual constitution, we will test the ensuing theoretical framework in an analysis of SYRIZA, a recent and, as a result, under-researched example of egalitarian, inclusionary populism emerging within the European crisis landscape.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-populism-anti-populism-frontier-and-its-mediation-in-crisis-ridden-greece-from-discursive-divide-to-emerging-cleavage/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:09 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-populism-anti-populism-frontier-and-its-mediation-in-crisis-ridden-greece-from-discursive-divide-to-emerging-cleavage/ Continued]]> Along with other South-European countries, since 2008, Greece has experienced deep economic and social dislocation, leading to a crisis of representation and triggering populist mobilisations and anti-populist reactions. This article focuses on the antagonistic language games developed around populist representations, something that has not attracted much attention in the relevant literature. Highlighting the need to study anti-populism together with populism, focusing on their mutual constitution from a discursive perspective, it articulates a brief yet comprehensive genealogy of populist and anti-populist actors (parties and media) in Greece, exploring their discursive strategies. Moving on, it identifies the main characteristics this antagonistic divide took on within the newly contested, crisis-ridden sociopolitical field, highlighting the implications for a contemporary understanding of cleavages, with potentially broader implications

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