National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis

Sierp, Aline; Karner, Christian

doi:10.1080/14608944.2016.1209646

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“…2 Looking at some of the most sensationalist news coverage in across EU countries, one could readily conclude that EU politicization in the context of the Eurocrisis is rapidly degenerating into a 'moral panic' blame game, 3 whereby certain national and EU political leaders and institutions are invoking the public's wrath on the basis not of their decisions before or during the crisis, but of stereotypical views about their nationality being inherently 'evil'. This is what Sierp and Karner (2016) describe as the 'essentialism' of stereotypes in the introductory article of this special issue. Here I examine this proposition from a crisis management and communication perspective, focusing on the case of the Greek public sphere during the early years of the Eurocrisis (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013).…”

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‘The Germans are back’: Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in crisis-stricken Greece

Michailidou

2016

National Identities

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The Eurocrisis has generated a deep and ongoing politicization of the EU within and across national public spheres, fuelling age-old and new political and social conflicts, which in turn shape public perceptions of crisis and the legitimacy of 'crisis government'. Focusing on Greece, an EU member state at the epicentre of the crisis, this paper examines how the European polity was contested in the first five years (2009-2013) of the 'Eurocrisis'. During this period, anti-German stereotypes resurfaced in the Greek public sphere in parallel with increasingly mainstream Euroscepticism. Nevertheless, analysis of news and social media content from this period shows that beneath this new-found scepticism towards the EU and Germany's role in it lie two much broader narratives: that of the power struggle between the people and the political elites; and that of an epic clash between diametrically different political ideologies.

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‘The Germans are back’: Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in crisis-stricken Greece

Michailidou

2016

National Identities

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“…This is especially critical in the current socio-political situation, where citizens of many European countries, unsettled by economic and political crises and now directly confronted with the phenomenon of large-scale immigration, are increasingly turning to stereotyping, ethnic essentialism, and racism (e.g. Worth, 2013; O'Hara, 2014; Genova, 2017; Sierp & Karner, 2017) which fits into long defunct concepts of cultural wholeness. In this situation, the archaeological discussion just described, on whether we conceptualize prehistoric communities as whole, uniform, and bounded entities or whether we see them as constituted by individual actors with potentially diverse and heterogeneous backgrounds and intentions, and individual agencies, becomes a highly political issue.…”

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Massive Migrations? The Impact of Recent aDNA Studies on our View of Third Millennium Europe

Furholt

2017

Eur. j. archaeol

109

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New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent theoretical frameworks in archaeology have downplayed as an outdated explanatory notion linked to traditional culture history. While these new genetic data have provided new insights into the population history of prehistoric Europe, they are frequently interpreted and presented in a manner that recalls aspects of traditional culture-historical archaeology that were rightly criticized through the 1970s to the 1990s. They include the idea that shared material culture indicates shared participation in the same social group, or culture, and that these cultures constitute one-dimensional, homogeneous, and clearly bounded social entities. Since the new aDNA data are used to create vivid narratives describing ‘massive migrations’, the so-called cultural groups are once again likened to human populations and in turn revitalized as external drivers for socio-cultural change. Here, I argue for a more nuanced consideration of molecular data that more explicitly incorporates anthropologically informed mobility and migration models.

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“…On the other hand, crises may undermine solidarity as they tend to fuel populism and reinforce national stereotypes or xenophobic tendencies (Lahusen & Grasso, 2018). The European debt crisis as well as the migration crisis serve as two prominent cases in point to support this claim (Sierp & Karner, 2017). Wallaschek (2019a, p. 261)…”

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Solidarity in the Public Sphere: A Discourse Network Analysis of German Newspapers (2008–2017)

Wallaschek

Starke

Brüning

2020

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Multiple crises in the EU have sparked a renaissance of the concept of solidarity. However, discursive approaches to solidarity and the public understanding of solidarity have hardly received scholarly attention. Empirical research on solidarity is rather centered on welfare institutions as well as on individual attitudes and behavior. To shed new light on solidarity in public discourse, we investigate in which policy fields the term is most often used, which actors refer to it and how different types of solidarity are covered in the German public discourse. We investigate the coverage of solidarity in four German newspapers (Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Tageszeitung) from 2008 to 2017. By deploying the discourse network methodology with 306 claims in 230 news articles, we analyze the co-occurrence of actors and issues over time. Our results indicate a varying set of issues in which solidarity occurs, a rather stable actor visibility, across time and a context-dependent use of different types of solidarity. Government actors, civil society actors as well as citizens drive the solidarity discourse showing that institutional as well as non-institutional actors make use of solidarity in their public actions regarding political protest, financial issues and migration. The study provides novel insights into the interdependence of actor and issue visibility and sheds new light on solidarity in media discourses.

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National stereotypes in the context of the European crisis

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

‘The Germans are back’: Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in crisis-stricken Greece

‘The Germans are back’: Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in crisis-stricken Greece

Massive Migrations? The Impact of Recent aDNA Studies on our View of Third Millennium Europe

Solidarity in the Public Sphere: A Discourse Network Analysis of German Newspapers (2008–2017)

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