Anti-austerity voices, the press and affective politics in Greece - Wednesday
8th March
2pm, Dr Maria Kyriakidou, UEA - Clephan Building 0.01
This paper explores the ways anti-austerity politics have been covered in the mainstream press in Greece. Empirically, the paper draws upon two different empirical studies on press
coverage of anti-austerity: the reporting of the Aganaktismeni protests in 2011; and the coverage of the ascendance of the radical left SYRIZA to power in 2015. The paper approaches both phenomena as the most vocal expressions of anti-austerity politics in
Greece, if not in Europe, and critically examines the dominant frames through which the two processes were reported. In particular, it questions the way anti-austerity ideas were presented as valid political and economic alternatives and possible solutions
to the crisis.
Best wishes
Stuart
Stuart Price
Professor of Media and Political Discourse