In the wake of Greece’s economic crisis, expressions and acts of racism have become noticeably more prevalent, particularly in light of the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Two significant topics in public discourse that gave rise to expressions of racism were the amendment of the Greek citizenship law, which came into effect in 2010 and was heavily debated in the run up to the 2012 Greek general elections, as well as the perceived increase in immigration at the start of the refugee crisis. By investigating newspaper articles from Greek newspapers of different political affiliations during the period around the Greek general elections of 2012, we intend to provide examples of how racism was constructed in the language of the press at the time and analyse this against the background of the economic crisis in Greece.
{"title":"Racist discourse in the years of the Greek financial crisis: Evidence from the Greek press","authors":"C. Lees, Antonis Alfieris","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.5.1.45_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.5.1.45_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of Greece’s economic crisis, expressions and acts of racism have become noticeably more prevalent, particularly in light of the rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Two significant topics in public discourse that gave rise to expressions of racism were the amendment\u0000 of the Greek citizenship law, which came into effect in 2010 and was heavily debated in the run up to the 2012 Greek general elections, as well as the perceived increase in immigration at the start of the refugee crisis. By investigating newspaper articles from Greek newspapers of different\u0000 political affiliations during the period around the Greek general elections of 2012, we intend to provide examples of how racism was constructed in the language of the press at the time and analyse this against the background of the economic crisis in Greece.","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66726694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How can we conceive the cosmopolitan ideal of travelling and experiencing exotic difference, so much embraced by ‘countercultural’ practices, once it is aestheticized into phantasmagorical dream-worlds? How can we think of people getting wasted due to drug-fuelled, long-lasting dancing without resorting to idealisms of ‘alternate experiences’ and romanticisms about ideal ways of belonging? This article explores psytrance festivals ‐ a cultural product of the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) carnivalesque celebrations, drug consumption (for the most part LSD and MDMA) and euphoric travelling of the 1960s ‐ with an emphasis on cosmopolitanism, aesthetic intimacy and the care of the self. By examining the mobility of Greek aficionados in EDM festivals in Europe, which have gained great popularity since the first decade of the twenty-first century, I discuss the enactment of the chemical celebration in accordance with the sensorial formations, desiring-images and narratives that weave the imagination of psytrance music culture. In contrast with most of the academic literature that views EDM events as a ‘heterotopic’ set-up that facilitates ‘liminal experiences’ ‐ supposedly evidence of the possibility of an out-of-the-ordinary lifestyle as opposed to everyday normativity ‐ I propose to investigate the excesses of consumption and bodily expenditure within metaphors that support psytrance technoaesthetics.
{"title":"Performing euphoric cosmopolitanism: The aesthetics of life and public space in psytrance phantasmagoria","authors":"Leandros Kyriakopoulos","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.5.1.69_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.5.1.69_1","url":null,"abstract":"How can we conceive the cosmopolitan ideal of travelling and experiencing exotic difference, so much embraced by ‘countercultural’ practices, once it is aestheticized into phantasmagorical dream-worlds? How can we think of people getting wasted due to drug-fuelled, long-lasting\u0000 dancing without resorting to idealisms of ‘alternate experiences’ and romanticisms about ideal ways of belonging? This article explores psytrance festivals ‐ a cultural product of the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) carnivalesque celebrations, drug consumption (for the most\u0000 part LSD and MDMA) and euphoric travelling of the 1960s ‐ with an emphasis on cosmopolitanism, aesthetic intimacy and the care of the self. By examining the mobility of Greek aficionados in EDM festivals in Europe, which have gained great popularity since the first decade of the twenty-first\u0000 century, I discuss the enactment of the chemical celebration in accordance with the sensorial formations, desiring-images and narratives that weave the imagination of psytrance music culture. In contrast with most of the academic literature that views EDM events as a ‘heterotopic’\u0000 set-up that facilitates ‘liminal experiences’ ‐ supposedly evidence of the possibility of an out-of-the-ordinary lifestyle as opposed to everyday normativity ‐ I propose to investigate the excesses of consumption and bodily expenditure within metaphors that support\u0000 psytrance technoaesthetics.","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43340523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the politics of queer resistance and survival: Athena Athanasiou in conversation with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Dimitris Papanikolaou","authors":"A. Athanasiou, V. Kolocotroni, D. Papanikolaou","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.269_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.269_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45917065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"O Nikos Kazantzakis ston kinimatografo (Nikos Kazantzakis in Cinema), Thanasis Agathos (2017)","authors":"P. Mini","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.285_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.285_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46831349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epithymies kai politiki; i queer istoria tou ellinikou kinimatografou (1924–2016) (Politics and Desire: The Queer History of Greek Cinema (1924–2016)), Konstantinos Kyriakos (2017)","authors":"Phevos Kallitsis","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.281_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.281_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":"16 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41270188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the lives of queer people as performed in the biographies of ten interlocutors who participated in the queer political scene during the decade 2000–10. In recent years, a wide range of queer/feminist subjectivities, groups and spaces have emerged within collective social movements in Greece. These new approaches to radical feminism and queer life-forms often convey a sense of discontinuity with the recent past, as queer voices have been marginalized in the anti-authoritarian and the radical leftist political scene until recently. I argue that the anti-authoritarian and leftist political space in and around the various social grassroots movements constituted – in their own right – disciplinary fields as well as gender-constructing mechanisms. Gendered subjectivities, either entirely excluded or included on restrictive terms, exposed the limits of the political body. In this article, I explore how these new queer contexts can work through the traumas out of which they have emerged, and I argue that the emergence of a queer political scene in Greece signals a shift from passionate attachments to new modes of relationality. These new modes of relating expose vulnerabilities and emerge as negotiations of intimacy between the self and the other.
{"title":"Queer subjectivities within political scenes: Traumatic relations, exposed vulnerabilities","authors":"Soula Marinoudi","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.151_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.151_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the lives of queer people as performed in the biographies of ten interlocutors who participated in the queer political scene during the decade 2000–10. In recent years, a wide range of queer/feminist subjectivities, groups and spaces have emerged within collective social movements in Greece. These new approaches to radical feminism and queer life-forms often convey a sense of discontinuity with the recent past, as queer voices have been marginalized in the anti-authoritarian and the radical leftist political scene until recently. I argue that the anti-authoritarian and leftist political space in and around the various social grassroots movements constituted – in their own right – disciplinary fields as well as gender-constructing mechanisms. Gendered subjectivities, either entirely excluded or included on restrictive terms, exposed the limits of the political body. In this article, I explore how these new queer contexts can work through the traumas out of which they have emerged, and I argue that the emergence of a queer political scene in Greece signals a shift from passionate attachments to new modes of relationality. These new modes of relating expose vulnerabilities and emerge as negotiations of intimacy between the self and the other.","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.151_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48464381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This piece examines five recent performances from Greece in an attempt to map both their interventions and contributions to the development of Greek queer aesthetics. It provides a chart of this relatively unknown performative landscape and explains how the queering process works in constructing queer ‘freaks’, cultural mourning and a new iconography of Greekness.
{"title":"Bodies of truth: The terrible beauty of queer performance","authors":"G. Sampatakakis","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.255_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.255_1","url":null,"abstract":"This piece examines five recent performances from Greece in an attempt to map both their interventions and contributions to the development of Greek queer aesthetics. It provides a chart of this relatively unknown performative landscape and explains how the queering process works in constructing queer ‘freaks’, cultural mourning and a new iconography of Greekness.","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.255_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46576944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal recognition of same-sex partnership as a political claim: Just aporias, critical (im)possibilities","authors":"A. Papanagiotou","doi":"10.1386/jgmc.4.2.187_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc.4.2.187_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48350014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimitris Papanikolaou is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Oxford. He has written the monographs: Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (Legenda, 2007), “Those people made like me”: C.P.Cavafy and the poetics of sexuality (Patakis, 2014, in Greek) and There is something about the family: Nation, desire and kinship in a time of crisis (Patakis, 2018, in Greek). His editorial work includes the new editions of the work of Costas Taktsis in Greek and the special issue of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture on Cavafy Pop (2014; co-edited with Eleni Papargyriou). He is currently completing the book Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics, for Edinburgh University Press.
{"title":"New queer Greece: Performance, politics and identity in crisis","authors":"D. Papanikolaou, V. Kolocotroni","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.143_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.143_2","url":null,"abstract":"Dimitris Papanikolaou is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Oxford. He has written the monographs: Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (Legenda, 2007), “Those people made like me”: C.P.Cavafy and the poetics of sexuality (Patakis, 2014, in Greek) and There is something about the family: Nation, desire and kinship in a time of crisis (Patakis, 2018, in Greek). His editorial work includes the new editions of the work of Costas Taktsis in Greek and the special issue of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture on Cavafy Pop (2014; co-edited with Eleni Papargyriou). He is currently completing the book Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics, for Edinburgh University Press.","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.143_2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47829614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How can one do the history of Modern Greek homosexuality at the present moment, in a country where intersectional precarity, neo-liberal control and proliferating austerity measures ensure that rights and political demands are in jeopardy? How can we historicise the ways in which ethnonationalism and neoconservative rhetoric create a phobic atmosphere, at the very moment when sexual and gender difference become more pronounced and are finally supported by institutional frameworks? This article offers an overview of the major milestones in Greek LGBTQI+ political representation as well as of recent attempts to articulate a Modern Greek queer history. Taking its cue from the shaming campaign against a cross-dressed man found cruising in the outskirts of Athens in 2016 and an analysis of the influential film Strella: A Woman’s Way (2009), it argues that we need to develop a new model of doing queer history in the present. Such a model will be both sensitive to the fluidity and historical challenge of queer emergence, but also remain ready to dwell on long histories of disavowal, institutionalized homophobia and suppression.
{"title":"Critically queer and haunted: Greek identity, crisiscapes and doing queer history in the present","authors":"D. Papanikolaou","doi":"10.1386/JGMC.4.2.167_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.167_1","url":null,"abstract":"How can one do the history of Modern Greek homosexuality at the present moment, in a country where intersectional precarity, neo-liberal control and proliferating austerity measures ensure that rights and political demands are in jeopardy? How can we historicise the ways in which ethnonationalism and neoconservative rhetoric create a phobic atmosphere, at the very moment when sexual and gender difference become more pronounced and are finally supported by institutional frameworks? This article offers an overview of the major milestones in Greek LGBTQI+ political representation as well as of recent attempts to articulate a Modern Greek queer history. Taking its cue from the shaming campaign against a cross-dressed man found cruising in the outskirts of Athens in 2016 and an analysis of the influential film Strella: A Woman’s Way (2009), it argues that we need to develop a new model of doing queer history in the present. Such a model will be both sensitive to the fluidity and historical challenge of queer emergence, but also remain ready to dwell on long histories of disavowal, institutionalized homophobia and suppression.","PeriodicalId":36342,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Media and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JGMC.4.2.167_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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