https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:52 +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/has-germany-fallen-out-of-love-with-europe-the-eurozone-crisis-and-the-normalization-of-germanys-european-identity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:33 +0000 http://arc.local/items/has-germany-fallen-out-of-love-with-europe-the-eurozone-crisis-and-the-normalization-of-germanys-european-identity/ Continued]]> The European Union has been in its biggest ever crisis since the onset of the Greek sovereign debt crisis in 2010. Beyond the political and economic dimensions, the crisis has also sparked discussions about Germany’s European identity. Some scholars have argued that Germany’s behavior in the crisis signals a continuation of the process of “normalization” of its European identity towards a stronger articulation of national identity and interests, that it has “fallen out of love” with Europe. This article will seek to reassess these claims, drawing on detailed analysis of political and media discourse in Germany—from political speeches through to both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers. It will argue that the crisis is understood broadly as a European crisis in Germany, where the original values of European integration are at stake. Furthermore, the crisis is debated through the lens of European solidarity, albeit with a particular German flavor of solidarity that draws on the economic tradition of ordoliberalism. Rather than strengthening expressions of national identity, this has resulted in the emergence of a new northern European identity in contrast to Greece or “southern Europe.”

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/turn-the-other-greek-how-the-eurozone-crisis-changes-the-image-of-greeks-and-what-visual-representations-of-greeks-tell-us-about-european-identity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/turn-the-other-greek-how-the-eurozone-crisis-changes-the-image-of-greeks-and-what-visual-representations-of-greeks-tell-us-about-european-identity/ Continued]]> This article analyses the discursive practices of political cartoons and their contribution tothe construction of Greek and European identities in light of the European sovereign debtcrisis. The goal of this article is to assess the emergence of Greeks as a significant Otherto Europe and its implications for European identity. To this end, the article develops atheoretico-methodological framework that brings together theories of identity as a pro-cess and a project, and a discourse analysis/iconology methodology tailored to politicalcartoon research. The article first tests for the existence of a Europe-wide discourse of thecrisis and the Greeks, using qualitative methodology. Once the existence of such a dis-course is established, the article goes on to examine the contents of this discourse, con-cluding that a Greek Other has indeed emerged through a process of differentiation, andcontinues to search for common interpretive frames and shared meanings that wouldpoint towards a common European identity. The political cartoon data sample comesfrom these countries: Austria, France, Slovakia and the United Kingdom.

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