Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 2

Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures

Yiannis Mylonas, Elena Psyllakou

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9783031551581
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031551598
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power for the Greek context. In doing so, it embraces intersectional approaches that study class structures in their co-constructions/co-articulations with other forms of social organization and identification, such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, geography and labor. Instead of providing clear-cut definitions, the chapters reveal the complexities and relationalities of class cultures and classed selves in their making. The second volume examines questions related to neoliberal cultures in the Greek context. It presents critical studies on mainstream cultural production and practices, and also includes studies on current counter-cultural forms and discourses.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Introduction: Conjunctures of Class, Culture, and the Media in Contemporary Greek Studies
• The Greek New Middle Class and Fashion in Late Modernity: Between Individualized “conformity” and “creative” Appropriation
• Communication Practices of the Social Classes in Contemporary Greece
• “Reading” with Online Audiences: Social Class Depictions in Christopher Papakaliatis’ Television Shows (2003–2010)
• Wanna Be on Top? Labor Pedagogies and Neoliberal Ethics in Greece’s Next Top Model (GNTM)
• The Construction of Entrepreneurial Masculinity: Competition, Tech-savviness and Choice in Online Intimacy Coaching
• The State They Live in: Lumpenproletariat and Linguistic Capital in Yannis Economides’ Films
• Class, Negativity, and Becoming: The Poetic Counter-archives of Samson Rakas and Antonis Antonakos
• From Book to Screen Entertainment: How Class Issues in Alki Zei’s Novel Wildcat Under Glass Are Adapted for Greek Television
• On the Network Culture of Electronic Dance Music
• Cooperative Media and the Politics of Class: Exploring Post-capitalist Logics in the Cooperative Media of Ef.Syn and AlterThess
• Afterword: Ghosting, Imagery, and Reconstruction: Or, What We Do Not Talk About When We Do Not Talk About Class in Greece
• Back Matter