https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 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/trivialization-of-world-war-two-and-shoah-in-greece-uses-misuses-and-analogies-in-light-of-the-current-debt-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:17 +0000 http://arc.local/items/trivialization-of-world-war-two-and-shoah-in-greece-uses-misuses-and-analogies-in-light-of-the-current-debt-crisis/ Continued]]> The economic crises since 2008 have, in Greece, given rise to a variety of blame-narratives which have instrumentalized both anti-Semitic and anti-Nazi stereotypes to justify popular resistance to the imposition of crippling austerity measures on the Greek people. This article explores the often confusing and contradictory narratives of parties and civil society groups across the political spectrum, which conflate images of German occupation, supposedly Jewish dominance of finance capital and Zionist brutality against Palestinians as the basis of Greek victimhood. The article underscores the power of myths and distortions in the process of identity-formation in a period of desperate crisis which ultimately renders democratic discourse and European solidarity even more fragile.

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