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The "Greek crisis" in Europe : race, class and politics /
"The "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 crisi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 138. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction: the Study of the Greek Economic Crisis in Europe through the Media; 1.1 Contextual Issues, Critical Political Economy and Cultural Studies; 1.2 European Mass Media as the Empirical Material of the Study; 1.2.1 A Brief Excursion on Liberalism and its Discontents; 1.2.2 Greek, Danish and German Mainstream News Media; 1.3 On Method: Thematic Analysis, Discourse Theory Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis;
- 1.3.1 The Relevance of Discourse Theory; 1.3.2 Critical Discourse Analysis Perspectives; 1.4 The Analytical Pillars: Race, Class, Politics; 1.4.1 On Race; 1.4.2 On Class; 1.4.3 Theorizing (Post)Politics; 1.5 An Outline of the Chapters to Follow; 2 Greek Crisis, Eurozone Crisis, Global Capitalist Crisis; 2.1 Setting the ""Greek Crisis"" in Perspective; 2.2 A Crisis of Capitalism and Capitalist Crises: A Brief Excursion into Marxian Analyses; 2.3 Crisis and Restructuring: Neoliberalism, Globalisation, Financialisation; 2.4 The Greek Crisis as a Symptom: Centre (Core) and Periphery Divisions;
- 2.5 The EU, the Euro, and Austerity2.6 Debt, Austerity and Primary Accumulation; 2.7 Concluding Remarks: Understanding Capitalism as Religion; 3 The "Greek Crisis" in the Media: Hegemony, Spectacle and Propaganda; 3.1 Media Aspects; 3.2 Political Communication and the Public Sphere; 3.3 Understanding Hegemony; 3.3.1 The "Greek Crisis" in the Media: A Critical Overview; 3.3.2 Hegemony, Propaganda and Biopolitics; 3.4 Spectacular Dimensions of the "Greek Crisis"; 3.5 Concluding Remarks: Interpellating and Disciplining the Working Class;
- 4 A Cultural Failure: Reification, Orientalism, Nationalism4.1 Introduction: (I)liberal Uses of Culture; 4.2 Hegemonic Constructions of the (Occidental) Self and the (Oriental) Other; 4.3 Greece as a non/quasi-European Other; 4.3.1 The Culturalisation of Greece and its Crisis; 4.3.2 Greece as a Commodity: Media Rituals to Sustain Ideological Myths; 4.3.3 Nationalism, Narcissism, Anxiety: Europe as a Panopticon and a Benchmark; 4.4 Concluding Remarks: The Occident, the Orient and the Liberal Meritocracy Cult; 5 Under a Middle-Class Gaze; 5.1 Governing Inequality;
- 5.2 The Middle-Class Gaze and the Media; 5.3 "The Loser" as a Master Class Frame; 5.4 The Greek Crisis and the Construction of "Losers"; 5.4.1 The Irrational: Ignorant, Irresponsible, and Frustrated; 5.4.2 The Immoral: Lazy, Profligate, Deceitful and Bankrupt; 5.4.3 The Threatening Other: Resentment, Spite, and Loath; 5.4.4 Idealising the Bourgeois; the Enduring Myths of a Peripheral Upper Class; 5.5 Concluding Remarks: Reaction, Diversion, Division; 6 Exceptionalising the Crisis, Normalising Austerity; 6.1 Technocratic Politics;
- 6.2 Establishing the Crisis and Austerity in Depoliticised Terms; 6.2.1 The Eurozone Crisis as an Apocalyptic Spectacle: The Mediatised States of Exception; 6.2.2 Naturalising Austerity; the Only Solution (Without an Alternative)s; 6.2.3 The "Extreme Center" and Constructions of "Realism"; 6.3 Concluding Remarks: Authoritarian Capitalism with Fascist Dispositions; 7 Conclusions: Context, Politics, Negativity; 7.1 Reinventing Critique, Reinventing Politics; 7.2 Debunking Hegemony's Crisis' Myths; 7.3 The Making of Regimes of Entitlement: Class is at the Heart of the Matter; 7.4 Capitalism is Apocalyptic: Politicising the Crisis, Austerity, the "Free Market", and the (Capitalist) Economy; 7.5 Negativity and Utopia.