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Tag Archives: discourse
Nov 29 2013
Framing Europe: An Exchange
1 CommentFrames are a key issue in the analysis of public discourse on the crisis in Europe. As part of their Reluctant Radicals project, our colleagues at Counterpoint have initiated a discussion on framing Europe on openDemocracy. Here we reproduce the … Continue reading
Posted by: November 29, 2013
Tagged with: discourse, Euroscepticism, frames, framing, national interest
Sep 20 2013
Populism in Greece and why the theory of the two extremes is wrong
3 CommentsBy Antonis Galanopoulos Populism as a term reappeared in everyday public discourse in Greece with the first protests against the memorandum with IMF, EU and ECB and its concomitant austerity policies. The polarisation at the base of the populism/anti-populism dichotomy … Continue reading
Posted by: September 20, 2013
Tagged with: anti-populism, discourse, Nationalism, populism
Apr 28 2013
The Implications of Nazi-comparisons in Current European Discourse
1 CommentBy Maria Brock and Rui Lopes* “They’re Germans”, whispers John Cleese, “so don’t mention the war!” Four decades after the classic Fawlty Towers episode first aired, the memory of World War II continues to cloud Germany’s foreign relations, with German … Continue reading
Posted by: April 28, 2013
Tagged with: Blame, Contested, Crisis, discourse, Eurozone crisis, Maria Brock, Nazi comparison, Rui Lopes