https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:00:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/this-radicalisation-which-is-not-one-contentious-politics-against-the-backdrop-of-the-greek-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/this-radicalisation-which-is-not-one-contentious-politics-against-the-backdrop-of-the-greek-crisis/ Continued]]> Since the eruption of the Greek economic crisis in 2010 and the introduction of austerity policies, Greece’s public space has become a theatre of intense political conflict in the form of social unrest, mass mobilisations, symbolic and physical clashes and political instability. This paper suggests that these developments can be understood in a productive way by drawing on a psychoanalytic understanding of loss and trauma. This framework can help us understand the transformation of a popular subject previously loyal to the political establishment into a disenchanted one, and also address the question of emotional intensities at play in this detachment. But in addition, psychoanalysis highlights the possibility of different responses to loss and the different ethical implications that these can have, which stands in contrast to accounts that see radicalisation as inherently dangerous. Far-right and left-wing responses are examined and characterised through this lens. The paper concludes that there are nuances in the left-wing responses that can meet the ethical criteria set by a psychoanalytic understanding of loss.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/europes-communication-deficit-and-the-uk-press-framing-the-greek-financial-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:22 +0000 http://arc.local/items/europes-communication-deficit-and-the-uk-press-framing-the-greek-financial-crisis/ Continued]]> As Europe’s leaders battle to solve the Eurozone debt crisis, Europe’s ‘communication deficit’ becomes ever more pertinent. So does the role of national media, which, in the case of Britain, are often accused of fuelling Euroscepticism among the public. This study aims to contribute to this debate and explore the UK media’s performance in the early stages of the Greek financial crisis. We address how the British press makes sense of Europe through an issue that pertains in a small economy but entails risks for the whole of Europe; and we ask to what extent this coverage conforms to the allegation that European politics is portrayed through domesticised media frames and polemical language. Although our findings validate existing concerns pertaining to journalists’ professional practices that shape the reporting of Europe, they also show evidence of an effort made by British newspapers—albeit mostly broadsheets—to overcome stereotypical interpretations.

]]> 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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