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The Greek Crisis in Europe: Race, Class and Politics

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This important study critically assesses the role of the mainstream media in shaping the politics and the popular understanding of the “Greek Crisis.”

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 crisis” spectacle, while iterating neoliberal and occidentalist ideological myths. Overall, the Greek people were deemed guilty of a systemic crisis, supposedly enjoying lavish lifestyles at the EU’s expense. Using concrete examples, this study foregrounds neo-orientalist, neo-racist and classist stereotypes deployed in the construction and media coverage of the Greek crisis. These media practices are connected to the “soft politics” of the crisis, which produce public consensus over neoliberal reforms such as austerity and privatizations, and secure debt repayment from democratic interventions.

Author: Mylonas Yannis
Publisher: HAYMARKET
Pages: 259
ISBN: 9781642591934
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2020

Yannis Mylonas, PhD(2009), University of Copenhagen, is assistant professor at the School of Media, National Research University Higher School of Economics, in Moscow.

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