https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:01:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 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.

]]>