The Greek Financial Crisis: Discourses of Difference or Solidarity?

Bickes, Hans; Otten, Tina; Weymann, Laura Chelsea

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“…As the crisis unfolded in other European countries, countries from Southern Europe were also demonized as failing in some way to be fully European. The classification of these countries into one category with the abbreviation PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain), offer an image of greedy and irrational national subjects feeding off other European countries (Tsoukala 2013;Bickes, Otten and Weymann 2014). The abbreviation constitutes yet another reflection of the continued hierarchies of people within European discourses -sometimes conceptualized within the idea of nations, in other cases of the world into civilized or uncivilized, south and north, developed and not developed.…”

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

Loftsdóttir¹

2018

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland's response to its collapse into bankruptcy in 2008, the author explores the way in which the country sought to brand itself as an exotic tourist destination. With attention to the nation's aspirations, rooted in the late 19th century, of belonging as part of Europe, rather than being classified with colonized countries, the book examines the engagement with ideas of otherness across and within Europe, as European discourses continue to be based on racialized ideas of 'civilized' people. With its focus on coloniality at a time of crisis, this volume contributes to our understanding of how racism endures in the present and the significance of nationalistic sentiments in a world of precariousness. Anchored in part in personal narrative, this critical analysis of coloniality, racism, whiteness and national identities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in national identity-making, European politics and race in a world characterized by crisis. Two women very important inmy life passed away while I was completing this book: Ásta Jónsdóttir, my grandmother, and Helen K. Henderson, one of my mentors during my PhD studies. They had strength, humor and an ability to have strong positive and inspiring effects on those around them -including me. Contents Acknowledgments ix List of figures xi PART I Before the crash 15

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

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2018

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Economic crisis and Greek crisis discourse

Deligiaouri

2019

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The 2008 economic crisis signalled a new era for European and global politics and introduced a new ‘economic crisis discourse’, which has emerged as an attempt to explain, justify, criticize and interpret economic crisis. It has introduced new terms and constructed new meanings to political life. Media economic crisis discourse has been a decisive factor in peoples’ understanding of economic crisis. The paper studies the construction and media narratives of economic crisis discourse through an analysis of articles published by The Economist during the ‘peak years’ of the early Greek economic crisis (2009–2011). The analysis follows Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) discourse theory and reveals the ‘nodal points’ of Greek crisis discourse as they are presented in the articles of The Economist. The paper underlines the importance of media discourse during crisis periods, in which information dissemination and news framing may crucially affect citizens, policies and societies in general.

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The Greek Financial Crisis: Discourses of Difference or Solidarity?

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

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