The Greek economic crisis as trope

Knight, Daniel M.

doi:10.3167/fcl.2013.650112

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“…The new death story also identifies a socially justifiable source of blame (cf. Knight ; Theodossopoulos ) that helps disperse the unwanted attention.…”

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Narrating death: affective reworking of suicide in rural Greece

Pipyrou

2014

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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This paper examines cases of suicide in rural Greece where the deceased have been provided with new affective narratives that detract from the circumstances of death. Living relatives redirect public attention away from the social taboo of suicide by reconfiguring affective stories that appeal to the local tool‐kit for dealing with unexpected death. Resultantly, the reputation of the family remains untainted by the connotations of immorality and insanity that suicide carries. Grabbing public attention, the affective story rouses sympathy for the victim and their family, whilst cultivating abhorrence towards a culprit, representing a final mark of respect to the dead person.

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“…The new death story also identifies a socially justifiable source of blame (cf. Knight ; Theodossopoulos ) that helps disperse the unwanted attention.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating death: affective reworking of suicide in rural Greece

Pipyrou

2014

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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“…Interestingly, the crisis viewed as the outcome of a conspiracy was more popular amongst Greek participants. As observed by Knight (2013), the severe economic situation and the harsh austerity measures that changed dramatically the everyday life of Greek citizens may have produced the idea that there is a conspiracy plan against them. This might have diffuse the anxiety of the event in the population (Franks, Bangerter & Bauer, 2013), thus contributing to the increase of a conspiracy belief that may have served as meaning making in a threatening situation (van Prooijen, Krouwel & Pollet, 2015).…”

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Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

Παπαστάμου¹,

Chryssochoou²,

Pavlopoulos³

et al. 2018

International Review of Social Psychology

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“…Conspiracy theories may be conceptually defined as the tendency to explain prominent political and societal events as due to a plot by hidden, powerful agents to achieve malevolent aims through systematic deception of the public (e.g., Swami & Furnham, 2014;Zonis & Joseph, 1994) and may serve to make sense of threatening situations (e.g., van Prooijen, Krouwel, & Pollet, 2015). As noted by Knight (2013), especially in Greece, "austerity measures create [d] tangible sense of destitution and persecution" (p. 149), augmenting the gap between political rhetoric and the social reality experienced by ordinary people (see also Pelkmans & Machold, 2011;Sutton, 2003). As a consequence the appeal of conspiracy theories increased.…”

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How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

Mari¹,

Volpato²,

Παπαστάμου³

et al. 2017

International Review of Social Psychology

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In the current research, we investigated the lay representations of the recent economic downturn, that had severe consequences on the lives of the involved people. We compared data of respondents from two countries that were affected to a different degree by the crisis: Greece (N = 529) and Italy (N = 327). We examined laypeople's representations of the perceived causes of the crunch (e.g., overconsumption, obscure power conspiracy), the strategies that are believed to be useful to overcome it (e.g., conforming to EU request, EU exit), and the political participatory activities (e.g., legal and illegal activism) that people intend to adopt. These variables were analyzed in light of two main predictors: political orientation and subjective economic vulnerability. The main hypothesis was that self-positioning on the left/ right axis may be a strong driver of lay representations and political participation. However, we expected that in conjunction with the linear effect of this variable, its quadratic effect should be considered as well. The latter specifies that in some circumstances the opinions of people self-positioned at the poles of the political spectrum may be closer to each other than to the opinions of the people that position themselves in the center which sometimes do not behave as moderate but appear more conformist. Additionally, we hypothesized that vulnerability may be a motive to seek for explanations of the crisis, to find strategies and to engage in activities to overcome it. Findings were generally in line with predictions and were discussed in the light of recent research and the context of analysis.

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The Greek economic crisis as trope

Cited by 68 publications

References 6 publications

Narrating death: affective reworking of suicide in rural Greece

Narrating death: affective reworking of suicide in rural Greece

Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Countries

How Political Orientation and Vulnerability Shape Representations of the Economic Crisis in Greece and Italy

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