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Inter- and Intranational Mediated Shaming to Justify Austerity Measures: The Case of the ‘Greek Crisis’
Ch. 10. P. 183–200.
This chapter focuses on media practices of shaming, as performed during the early years of the so-called Greek crisis (2009–2015) by the news media of Germany, Denmark and Greece. The chapter shows that the hegemonic publicity around the ‘Greek crisis’ cumulated into a public shaming practice of the Greek people, ridiculed by media spectacles of crisis. Although ‘all Greeks’ were blamed for the crisis, the media focused on examples of lay wrongdoings, such as practices of petty corruption instead of examining the systemic character of corruption in capitalism. Shaming here is therefore connected to the politics of the crisis and austerity and is meant to discipline the object of austerity reforms.
Mylonas Y., Journal of Class & Culture 2024 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 145–162
The empirical focus of this study is Season 1 of the popular HBO series The White Lotus (2020) and Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness (2022), both of which achieved worldwide popularity and critical acclaim. The study draws on narrative analysis, to examine class relations and class subjectivities in these productions. Anchored in today’s highly precarious and competitive neo-liberal ...
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. Class and poverty are not understood as certain things and actions, ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 7 P. 213–227.
The reintroduction of a critical vocabulary that was made redundant by postmodernism and the subsequent hegemony of neoliberalism as a post-historical project can demonstrate the systemic and structural aspects of the crisis and among them, the values and the social relations naturalising capital-ism. This way, critical theory can estrange and defamiliarise (Shklovsky, 2015: 163) what ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 4 P. 113–152.
In this chapter, I draw on the critical theories of race and racism, discussed in Chapter 1, that problematise the uses of the concept of culture today in the West. Culture is often deployed to explain issues like poverty and civic dis-empowerment as well as economic crisis, state bankruptcy and corruption, in a rather depoliticised ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 3 P. 87–112.
This chapter presents an account of the political role of the media. The discus-sion of media and politics begins with the notion of the public sphere and its critical conceptualisation as a field colonised by the strategic economic in-terests and ideological premises of capital and the upper classes (Dean, 2002, 2009, 2017; Negt & Kluge, ...
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Mylonas Y., Noutsou M., Nordicom Review 2021 Vol. 42 No. 3 P. 56–70
This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content analysis is deployed ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. P. 95–111.
This chapter focuses on discursive constructions of creativity in the Greek public sphere in connection to the Greek government debt crisis. Instrumentalized by policy makers and pundits pursuing neoliberal reforms in Greece, creativity is understood to serve a mode of biopolitical governmentality. This is connected to the production of a national consensus over the necessity ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in Times of Crisis.: Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2020. Ch. 14 P. 209–225.
The specific study focuses on the moralist and culturalist meaning investments of the Greek crisis publicity, as it appeared in the Greek mainstream liberal news media. Following relevant critical literature (Bozatzis, 2016; Carastathis, 2014; Ervedosa, 2017), I wish to stress the neoorientalist character of the hegemonic Greek crisis’ explanations, and to focus on the reproduction ...
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Mylonas Y., Filmicon 2019 Vol. 6 P. 219–248
Produced and screened in 2017, Pantelis Voulgaris’s To teleftaio simeioma/The Last Note reconstructs the story of the massacre of two hundred imprisoned Communists, in retaliation for the execution of four Nazis by the Greek Resistance, in 1944. The analysis proposes a political reading of the film, as it deals with the collective trauma of the ...
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Μυλωνάς Γ., Σύγχρονα Θέματα 2020 Vol. 42 No. 147-148 P. 66–77
This article focuses on the study of the Greek crisis in the German and Danish press. Relevant studies have shown that the media heavily relied on the official version of the crisis, as formulated by European political leaders, as well as prominent technocrats and economists. The analysis shows that the discourse of the crisis in ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: Communication and Discourse Theory Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group.: Bristol: Intellect Books, 2019. P. 35–56.
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Mylonas Y., , in: The Media and Austerity.: [б.и.], 2019. P. 140–154.
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 ...
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Mylonas Y., Leiden: Brill, 2019.
he “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics, critically analyses the publicity of the Greek debt crisis, by studying Greek, Danish and German mainstream media during the crisis’ early years (2009-2015). Mass media everywhere reproduced a sensualistic “Greek crisis” spectacle, while iterating neoliberal and occidentalist ideological myths. Overall, the Greek people were deemed guilty ...
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Mylonas Y., Journal of Political Ideologies 2018 Vol. 23 No. 2 P. 223–240
This article analyses Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly journal, and its
discursive constructions of the oppositional voices against the socalled
structural reforms imposed on Greece in the context of the
Eurozone crisis. The analysis is focused on relevant articles published
by Der Spiegel between late 2009 and early 2015, during important,
crisis-related socio-political events. Drawing on discourse theory and
critical discourse analysis, ...
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Mylonas Y., Noutsou M., Race and Class 2018 Vol. 59 No. 3 P. 51–66
This article presents a critical analysis of the Danish press coverage of the referendum called by the Left-led coalition government of Greece in July 2015, concerning the future of austerity policies. It focuses on the conservative daily press of Denmark, one of the ‘core’ EU countries, writing on developments in the periphery. Three main themes ...
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Bobrovnikov V., Insight Turkey 2018 Vol. 20 No. 4 P. 249–270
To date the research of Orientalism in Russia did not present the whole mosaic palette of its competing schools and disciplines. The influential missionary Orthodox Orientology remains understudied. Even less known is contribution in the making of intolerant discourse on Islam by state atheist associations (League of Militant Godless (1925–1947) succeeded by the Knowledge Society), ...
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Bobrovnikov V., Мири С. Д., Алаев Л. Б. et al., М.: ООО "Садра", 2016.
Is Orientalism on outcome of the academic scholarship studying the Orient, its peoples, their history and culture? Or, as the American literary critic of the Palestinian origin Edward Said argues, it rather justifies colonialism in the past and the modern expansionist policy of the Western powers? This collection of articles written by Russian and foreign orientalists aims to ...
Added: March 10, 2018
Bobrovnikov V., Islamology 2017 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 53–73
Visual propaganda played an enormous role in the history of the twentieth century. Unlike the propaganda of nineteenth century, it was aimed not only at educated classes in the imperial centers, but also at subaltern masses living in the colonies of great powers, including the vast territories in the east and south of the former ...
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Nazmutdinov B., SocioTime (Социальное время) 2016 № 2 С. 118–126
In the recent years, it is often heard of the turn of Russia to the East, its attention given to Asia, processes of constructing of a sustainable Eurasian space. However, the Eurasianist vector of Russia has started to be conceptualized much earlier. «Exodus to the East» proclaimed by the Eurasianists in the early 1920s, caused ...
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Nazmutdinov B., SocioTime (Социальное время) 2015 № 4 С. 129–140
In the recent years, it is often heard of the turn of Russia to the East, its attention given to Asia, processes of constructing of a sustainable Eurasian space. However, the Eurasianist vector of Russia has started to be conceptualized much earlier. «Exodus to the East» proclaimed by the Eurasianists in the early 1920s, caused ...
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Beshenov S., Rozmainsky I. V., Russian Journal of Economics 2015 Vol. 1 No. 4 P. 419–438
This article attempts to analyze the current debt crisis in Greece based on the financial instability hypothesis developed by H. Minsky. This article shows that the hypothesis provides an understanding of how an economy endogenously becomes “financially fragile” and thus prone to crises. The authors analyze how public and private sector behavior in the Greek economy ...
Added: March 28, 2016
Mylonas Y., Journal of Language and Politics 2012 Vol. 11 No. 3 P. 405–426
This article critically studies documentaries focusing on the “Islamic terrorist threat”, produced in the US and in Western Europe. the particular films relate to the discourses of the growing far-right political movements in liberal democracies. The article analyzes the communicational tactics deployed by the film-makers for counter-terrorist mobilization of “Westerners”. The films’ producers objectify the terrorist threat ...
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