Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures

Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Under the general editorship: Mylonas Y., E. Psyllakou

This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power for the Greek context. In doing so, it embraces intersectional approaches that study class structures in their co-constructions/co-articulations with other forms of social organization and identification, such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, geography and labor. Instead of providing clear-cut definitions, the chapters reveal the complexities and relationalities of class cultures and classed selves in their making. The second volume examines questions related to neoliberal cultures in the Greek context. It presents critical studies on mainstream cultural production and practices, and also includes studies on current counter-cultural forms and discourses.

Chapters

Introduction: Conjunctures of class, culture, and the media in contemporary Greek studies

Mylonas Y., Psyllakou E., , in: Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Ch. 1.

While in the introduction of the first volume we referred to main approaches and theories of class, and revised significant literature discussing class and the media, in this introduction to the second volume we examine relevant works on contemporary Greece, revising studies concerned with class questions in the country. Furthermore, we also present aspects on ...

Added: March 14, 2024

Class, negativity, and becoming; the poetic counter-archives of Samson Rakas and Antonis Antonakos

Mylonas Y., , in: Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Ch. 8.

In this chapter, I examine class-related aspects in the work of two contemporary “minor” Greek authors/artists, Samson Rakas and Antonis Antonakos. The study offers theoretical reflections on the work of both authors and its situated context, today’s Greece, a country of the European periphery caught in a perpetual and polyvalent state of economic, political, and ...

Added: March 14, 2024

The Construction of Entrepreneurial Masculinity: Competition, Tech-savviness and Choice in Online Intimacy Coaching

Kompatsiaris P., , in: Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Ch. 6 P. 121–140.

This chapter explores the constructions of masculinity in the field of intimacy coaching for heterosexual men, exploring three so-called “digital academies” in the Greek online space. Intimacy coaching trains disenfranchised men on matters pertaining to relationships with women, such as how to flirt and initiate contact, be charming, attractive and confident, evade friendzoning, and maintain ...

Added: February 26, 2025

Keywords: Greece, Cultural Studies, media and communications, Social class differences