Migrant Encounters with Power in Greece

Cancer

“…Anthropologists are as likely to write about the carcinogens as they are to write about how producers of carcinogens dismiss the detrimental effects of their products (see Michaels 1988, Balshem 1993, Anglin 2005, Kohrman 2010, Jain 2013, Karakasidou 2015 and employ neoliberal discourses to blame individuals and communities for poor lifestyle choices. This literature includes ethnographic details on decisions to use pesticides to increase farm production in Greece (Karakasidou 2008) and China (Lora-Wainwright 2009), options to obtain better jobs and safer places to live (Singer 2011), contradictory messages that promote test-driving BMW sports cars in support of breast cancer research ( Jain 2007), or activists working toward exposing harms in breast cancer screening (Klawiter 2008). This work fosters the need to consider the "chemical regimes of living" in the twenty-first century (Murphy 2008): how "molecular relations extend outside of the organic realm and create interconnections with landscapes, production, and consumption, requiring us to tie the history of technoscience with political economy" (Murphy 2008, p. 697).…”

Homeland in the fiction and written narratives of ethnic Greeks from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Greece

“…However, in the media and in everyday speech, it is the term Rossopontioi (Russian Pontics) -a regional and national ascription marking their foreignness -which prevails. Faced with the often contradictory symbolic ascription of multiple identities, ethnic Greeks from the FSU confront formidable obstacles as they struggle to integrate into Greek society 30 . On the local labour market, their situation remains fragile.…”

Perceptions of difference in the Greek sphereThe case of Cyprus

“…This uniformist Discourse (in the sense of Kiesling 2006) 26 is also manifested indirectly in contemporary Greek society through, for instance, attitudes toward immigrants (Karakasidou 2002), which often reflect a distinction between those who speak Greek and those who do not (Voutira 2003: 149-157), the AIDSepidemic-induced exclusion of foreigners and AIDS patients alike (Tsalicoglou 1995:90-91), high school students' favouring "[t]he natural-organic view of the nation as an ahistorical community sharing a common origin, language, and culture" (Voulgaris 2000:273), and the selection and handling of linguistic news items by the media (Koutsogiannis & Mitsikopoulou 2003;Moschonas 2004:180-189). This same Discourse is at the root of the linguistic anxiety of speakers of regional varieties within Greece, which is negatively manifested by the virtual absence of these regional varieties from the internet and from hip-hop language -domains otherwise known to favour regional expression (Androutsopoulos & Scholz 2002:22) -and further fuelled by negative representations of dialects in native speakers' metalinguistic comments and on prime-time TV (e.g., the stigmatization of [o] backing in example 3.3 of Georgakopoulou 2006:88, and of the palatal lateral approximant by the character of Amalia in the popular TV series Παρά Πέντε).…”