[Commlist] New book: Class, culture, and the media in Greece, vol 1 & 2

Yiannis Mylonas and Elena 
Psyllakou are glad to announce the publication of the two-volume project entitled


Class, culture, and the media in Greece (Springer, 2024)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55127-7

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55159-8


Editors: Yiannis Mylonas, Elena Psyllakou


• Brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in the Greek media realm

• Reveals the complexities and relationalities of class cultures and classed selves in their making

• Embraces intersectional approaches that study class structures

• Examines questions related to neoliberal cultures in the Greek context


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.

Volume one brings forth studies concerned with intersectional questions of class, notions of otherness, and forms of exclusion as they appear in popular media genres over a variety of social issues. Further, the volume also deals with class-related issues connected to the study of reactionary, far-right, and racist content advancing in Greek public spheres.

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.


Tables of contents:


Volume 1: Otherness, Reactionary Politics, the Class Gaze


Foreword: Class Cultures and the Media in Greece -Fredrik Stiernstedt and Johan Lindell

Introduction: Probing Perpetual Crisis -Yiannis Mylonas and Elena Psyllakou

Misrecognizing Class in the Age of Covid-19: The Aspropyrgos Case and the Media -Giorgos Bithymitris

Housing Precarization and the Reshuffling of Worthiness, Blame, and Vulnerability During the Covid-19 Pandemic -Theodoros Karyotis and Christina Sakali

Invaders vs Investors: The Importance of Class in the Framing of Migration in the Greek Press -Christos Kostopoulos

Media Representations of the Roma Population in Greece: Negative Stereotyping and Class Politics Against the
Indigenous “Other” -Stamatis Poulakidakos

Endoxa, Regimes of Truth, and Hatred Rhetoric: Examining Golden Dawn’s Online Media Discourses -Dimitris Serafis, Dionysios Mitropoulos, and Salomi Boukala

Private Television and the Reproduction of Conspiracy Theories: The Greek Case -Lazaridis Thomas

Anti-vaccination and COVID-19 Scepticism on Greek-speaking Social Media: A Form of Far-right Propaganda -Nikos Smyrnaios, Charis Papaevangelou, and Panos Tsimpoukis

Somewhere Between Paris and Tehran: Exploring Greece’s Media-mediated Sociopolitics of Religion and Their Implicit Class Connotations -Sotiris Mitralexis

Digitally Mediated Collective Memory of the Greek Civil War: A Post-Memory Analysis of YouTube Comments -Leandros Savvides and Ioanna Ferra

Rebétiko: Class, Migration and Affective Structures in the Cinematographic Narration of a Musical Genre -Maria Athanasiou

Women Crossing Borders in White Vans: An Autoethnographic Account of the Performance and Embodiment of Class in Post-socialist Migration -Tsvetelina Hristova


Volume 2: Neoliberalism(s), the Mainstream, Counter-cultures

Introduction: Conjunctures of Class, Culture, and the Media in Contemporary Greek Studies -Yiannis Mylonas and Elena Psyllakou

The Greek New Middle Class and Fashion in Late Modernity: Between Individualized “conformity” and “creative” Appropriation -Dimitris Lallas

Communication Practices of the Social Classes in Contemporary Greece -George Pleios, Michalis Tastsoglou, and Alexandros Minotakis

“Reading” with Online Audiences: Social Class Depictions in Christopher Papakaliatis’ Television Shows (2003–2010) -Spiros Chairetis

Wanna Be on Top? Labor Pedagogies and Neoliberal Ethics in Greece’s Next Top Model (GNTM) -Georgia Aitaki

The Construction of Entrepreneurial Masculinity: Competition, Tech-savviness and Choice in Online Intimacy Coaching -Panos Kompatsiaris

The State They Live in: Lumpenproletariat and Linguistic Capital in Yannis Economides’ Films -Eva Theodoridou and Vasilis Kagias

Class, Negativity, and Becoming: The Poetic Counter-archives of Samson Rakas and Antonis Antonakos -Yiannis Mylonas

From Book to Screen Entertainment: How Class Issues in Alki Zei’s Novel Wildcat Under Glass Are Adapted for Greek Television -Vladimir Cotal San Martin and Mikael Tsiouris

On the Network Culture of Electronic Dance Music -Leandros Kyriakopoulos

Cooperative Media and the Politics of Class: Exploring Post-capitalist Logics in the Cooperative Media of Ef.Syn and AlterThess -Vangelis Gkagkelis, Haris Malamidis, and Konstantinos Roussos

Afterword: Ghosting, Imagery, and Reconstruction: Or, What We Do Not Talk About When We Do Not Talk About Class in Greece -Dimitris Papanikolaou


About the editors:

Yiannis Mylonas is Associate Professor at the Media Institute of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, in Moscow. He received a PhD in Media and Communications from Copenhagen University, and has worked at Lund University as postdoctoral researcher. He is the author of the monograph The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics (2019), and co-editor (with Panos Kompatsiaris and Ilya Kirya) of The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies (Springer, 2020). He has previously published in journals such as Stasis, Critical Discourse Studies, tripleC, The Journal of Language and Politics, Continuum, Subjectivity, Race and Class, The Journal of Political Ideologies, Javnost/the Public, Nordicom Review, and Journalism, among other.

Elena Psyllakou holds a PhD in Discourse Studies (Department of Political Sciences, University of Athens), building on critical approaches to discourse analysis, media and communication. In her postdoctoral research for the project “Media in the limelight. A dialogic approach”, imple- mented in collaboration with the Greek National Center for Social Research (EKKE), she focused on the intersections of news media, politics, and journalistic identities in the Greek mediascape. She has been an active member of DiscourseNet. Currently she works as a Communications Expert and Research Associate in the NGo/CSo sector in Greece. In col- laboration with the ENA Institute for Alternative Policies she contributes to projects and initiatives to enhance transparency and trust in media and journalism.
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