December uprising 2008: universality and particularity in young people's discourse

Pechtelidis, Yannis

doi:10.1080/13676261.2010.543669

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“…5 Typically, studies of protest behaviour in Greece are qualitative. For example, see Economides and Monastiriotis 2009;Pechtelidis 2011. One interesting exception is a study reporting the results of various laboratory experiments conducted in the context of the 2008 riots.…”

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Who Protests in Greece? Mass Opposition to Austerity

Rüdig¹,

Karyotis²

2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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115

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The widespread opposition to unprecedented austerity measures in Greece provides a unique opportunity to study the causes of mass protest. This article reports the results of a survey of the adult population in which two-thirds of the respondents supported protest and 29 per cent reported actual involvement in strikes and/or demonstrations during 2010. Relative deprivation is a significant predictor of potential protest, but does not play any role in terms of who takes part in strikes or demonstrations. Previous protest participation emerges as a key predictor of actual protest. This study seeks to place these results within a comparative context, contrasting Greece with other countries facing similar challenges, and discusses the implications for the future of austerity politics.

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Who Protests in Greece? Mass Opposition to Austerity

Rüdig¹,

Karyotis²

2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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115

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“…The literature suggests that a qualitative inquiry is a particularly appropriate method for studying consumer experiences as gamers and protesters (e.g. Molesworth, 2009; Pechtelidis, 2011). During the data collection process, qualitative techniques help to construct a deeper understanding of the phenomena, since qualitative research is ‘exploratory, fluid and flexible, data-driven and context-sensitive’ (Mason, 2002: 24).…”

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We beat the cops in GTA: Po(ludic)al activism in the age of video games

Demirbag-Kaplan

Kaplan-Oz

2017

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article explores how individuals reflect on their digital experiences of actualizing fantasies to make sense of their everyday actions, particularly in the context of video gaming. Our study takes a qualitative approach to understanding the context of materializing consumer fantasies, as initially experienced and actualized in video games, and how these fantasies are transformed into material reality, through an investigation of an illustrative case of mass street protests, the 2013 Gezi Protests in Turkey. The findings suggest that digital virtual experiences in video games have obvious manifestations in the material world, as consumers travel on the borders of reality, moving back and forth into the liminoid terrain of the digital virtual, and provide a deeper understanding of how the blurred boundaries between the virtual and material are established in practice.

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“…By emphasizing the rampant character of riots in protest representations, violence is not seen as a necessary strategy of social movements but either as a pretext for law-breaking or a result of the accumulated anger of the participants. The focus on violence as criminal action and social deviation highlights the importance of maintaining order for the benefit of society and the individual, while it is used to indicate appropriate ways of protest and emphasizes the need to restore order to all those who deviate (Pechtelidis, 2011).…”

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Young Greeks’ Social Representation of Protest: Dialogical Structure and Ideological Function

Vlazakis

Baka

Figgou

2022

International Review of Social Psychology

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Public protest has been a controversial form of political participation which aims to intervene in the socio-political status quo by promoting or preventing social change. The political and social life in Greece has been greatly influenced by public protests which, in several cases, acted as regulators and drivers of change. The main interest of this study is to examine public protest as an object of social representation of young Greeks in the current socio-political and historical context. Obtaining data from focus groups, we use recent dialogical approaches to Social Representation Theory to examine the content, the emerging identities, as well as the structure and the ideological function of protest representation amongst young Greeks. Our findings indicate that protests' representation is conceptualized on the basis of dialectical antitheses and contradictory identities; the idealistic perception of public protest is based on the conceptualization of the identity of active citizen and purposeful protesters, while the violent side of protests emerges from the identity of rioters and protest armies. We argue that these main elements of protest representation also determine its internal structure. In addition, they have an implicit ideological function as they express the way in which young Greeks discuss, negotiate, assimilate and redefine public protest under their set of beliefs and their worldview concerning social reality.

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December uprising 2008: universality and particularity in young people's discourse

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Who Protests in Greece? Mass Opposition to Austerity

Who Protests in Greece? Mass Opposition to Austerity

We beat the cops in GTA: Po(ludic)al activism in the age of video games

Young Greeks’ Social Representation of Protest: Dialogical Structure and Ideological Function

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