Introduction: Probing Perpetual Crisis

The first volume concentrates contributions defined by the key concepts of otherness, reactionary politics, and the class gaze. Departing from the watershed event of the Greek economic crisis and its long-term effects in the Greek socio-political life during the last fifteen years, the contributions of the volume focus on media practices that we frame as reactionary, such as demeaning representations of ethnic and class others, conspiracy theories in mass media, historical revisionism, as well as far-right media content and discourses, which are nowadays proliferating in the Greek public sphere. Additionally, a notion of the self-as-other emerges in some of the volume’s contributions, in which the histories and cultures of Greek refugee and migrant as a classed and gendered subject are outlined in classical cinema, and experiences of working-class migrant women are narrated through self ethnography.