Nicolas Demertzis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 286600 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicolas Demertzis |
| NOMBRES | Nicolas |
| APELLIDO | Demertzis |
| FIRMA | DEMERTZIS N |
| AFILIACIONES | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6251-0239 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Trusting during the pandemic
Introduction This study examines how different forms of trust shaped COVID-19 mortality across European countries, treating the pandemic as a collective action problem where compliance with public health measures was crucial. While trust is often discussed as a uniform resource, less attention has been paid to how social trust, political trust, and trust in scientists may have divergent effects on pandemic outcomes. Methods Using data from the Eu…
Values and emotionality in Greek political culture
In this article, we provide a theoretical discussion of ressentiment within the emerging fields of the political sociology and political psychology of emotions and offer an empirical investigation of its political-cultural function. The complex emotion of ressentiment refers to a recurrent rumination on negative feelings and an affective compensation for life failures. Extant studies show ressentiment can be linked to electoral support for populi…
Debating News Media
Against the backdrop of intertwined crises, this study explores discursive interplays between news media, journalists, and the audience. Analyzing media texts, it sets as its epicentre something that rarely concerns the academic community, i.e., the way in which Media talk about themselves, exploring their reflexive function and the ways they configure their relation to state and party politics, as well as professional identities. Employing focus…
Sour grapes
This article examines the psychological orientations and political preferences of citizens ‘in ressentiment’, a particular psychological state that is a characteristic feature of contemporary grievance politics. Similarly to the Fox in Aesop’s ‘Fable of the sour grapes’, in ressentiment the value of an impotent self and a desirable but unattainable object change to a morally superior self and an unwanted object, while maintaining an aura of victi…
Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy
The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the intern…
Inclusion of People in Decision-Making
Reflecting on the May 2019 European Parliament elections, the EU democratic institutions are in need of efficiently responding to the discrepancies between public agendas and policy-making (as shown in the Macedonia naming dispute), and the threatening dynamics of authoritarian populism, as well as to unpredictable reactions from diverse groups and citizens, especially from the neglected, excluded and marginal ones. These citizens cannot handle c…
The civil war(s) trauma
An interpretation of the Greek civil war as an exemplary case of cultural trauma is attempted in this chapter. This is done through illuminating comparisons with other civil wars and by showcasing the politics of memory, the antagonistic regime of signification by which the war has been designated, and the emotional dynamics during the war and after the war was over. It is argued that, after a quarter of a century period of silence, the trauma dr…
Populism and the emotions
This chapter sheds light on the emotional underpinning of populist orientations and politics in relation to nostalgia, anger, fear, efficacy, resentment, and ressentiment. It keeps a distance from the mainstream ideational approach by defining populism as a schema consisting in two principal slots through which individuals orient themselves towards the political field: the ‘people’, and the division of society between two main power blocs. Specia…
The political sociology of emotions
A strong case is made in this chapter for an explicit articulation of the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of the ‘emotions sociology’ or the sociology of emotions. It is not only that many political sociologists and political theorists have carved out the space for such a disciplinary sub-field; it is also the hitherto fast growth of the sociology of emotions itself which has led to an over-diversified thematic agenda that begs for…
On trauma and cultural trauma
Stemming from its central staging in contemporary global risk society and post-conflict environments and international affairs on the one hand, and adopting a weak constructionist perspective on the other, cultural trauma is construed in this chapter as a retroactive societal meaning-making process initiated by ruptures of the social fabric. These ruptures are usually caused by damaging events like wars, genocides, famines, terrorist attacks, env…
Mediatizing traumatic experience and the emotions
This chapter focuses on the ways traumatic experiences are depicted and triggered by the media of communication. It also accounts for the multiple modes through which emotions have been treated in media scholarship. It is argued that for the most part the mediatization of others’ traumas gives rise to ‘quasi-emotions’ which are part and parcel of the spectacularization of suffering; however, it is also argued that there is space for full-fledged …
On resentment, ressentiment, and political action
Drawing from moral philosophy, historical, sociological, and psychoanalytic literature, this chapter copes with two akin yet different complex social emotions: resentment and ressentiment . The former is conceived as moral anger and the latter as an affective compensation for life failures. The gravity of the chapter lies with ressentiment , the compensatory nature of which consists in value reversal experienced by inferior social agents through …
The emotionality of the nation-state
From an emotions sociology point of view, after briefly tracing the emotional underpinnings of the main theorists of nationalism since the late nineteenth century, this chapter demonstrates the relational societal procedures involved in the affective bases of the nation state by deciphering the so-called ‘national sentiment’. Hatred, envy, pride, dignity, love, and fear are likely to become political emotions when deployed in the discourse and th…
Trauma and the politics of forgiveness
This chapter discusses forgiveness as an alternative moral-emotion response to trauma next to retaliatory revenge, justice, and non-forgiveness. Amidst a widespread emotional climate of cynicism on the one hand, and a permeating therapeutic culture on the other, forgiveness stands as a moral virtue to be differentiated from ostensible apologies and pardons premised on political imperatives in post-conflict societies, as well as from forgetting an…
Covid-19 as cultural trauma
When do European election campaigns become about Europe
This article examines which parties included European issues in their 2014 European Parliament campaigns, and what influenced whether they did so, based on innovative data from the content analysis of 9,100 press releases in seven countries. Overall, established and especially governing parties no longer shied away from EU issues, referring to them as often as challenger parties did. The likelihood of EU issues in campaigns derives from a combina…
The Political Sociology of Emotions
The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from reducing politics to affectivity, the political sociology of emotions is coterminous with political sociology itself plus the emotive angle added in the investigation of its traditional and more recent areas of research. The worldwide predominance of affective ant…
Political Action and Resentful Affectivity in Critical Times
How does the study of emotions help us understand engaging in or abstaining from violent and illegal political behaviors in the context of the Eurozone economic crisis? This question sits at the core of our article. We focus particularly on anger, fear, and hope hypothesizing that combined with perceptions of self-efficacy, these emotions fuse in complex affective blends of resentful or ressentiment-ful affectivity, which in turn determine the pa…
The Politics of Extreme Austerity
Collective Fear and Societal Change
Emotions in politics
"Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the twin disciplines of political psychology and the political sociology of emotions to explore the complex relationship between politics and emotion at both the mass and individual level with special focus on cases of political tension. A role call of contributors from across the world and at the forefront of academic research in both …
The Greek Green voter
The results achieved by the Ecologists-Greens (EG) between 2007 and 2009 represented the strongest ever electoral performance of any Greek ecological party. Was the rapid electoral rise of the Greek Green party a product of growing public concern about the environment after the destructive 2007 forest fires, or the result of a partisan dealignment in the Greek political system? A quantitative analysis of the demographic, behavioural, and attitudi…
Emotions and Populism
It is strange to think that the political sociology of emotions is quite immature when compared with the enormous growth of the sociology of emotion over the last 25 years or so (Kemper, 1990, 1991; Barbalet, 1998; Williams, 2001). Scholars have only recently brought emotions back in the analysis of social and political movements, power relations and institutions (Goodwin, Jasper and Polletta 2001; Holmes, 2004; Ost, 2004; Marcus, 2002; Berezin, …
Greek Political Marketing Online
The new communication system of interconnected computer networks is altering the nature of political communication in many innovative and significant ways. In Greece, the development of the Internet as a mass communication medium has a history of no more than five years, and it is far from being a fully fledged medium of political communication. With the exception of relatively few cases, the use of the Internet has been shown to increase during …
Media and Nationalism
As divisive political ideologies in the era of globalizatin, contemporary nationalisms differ considerably from the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century nationalisms. They are fueled by the worldwide antinomy between the global and the local. Because nationalism is rooted deeply in different political cultures, nationalist biases affect the way journalists and media organizations select and present news stories about national collective identi…
The Political Sociology of Emotions
The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from reducing politics to affectivity, the political sociology of emotions is coterminous with political sociology itself plus the emotive angle added in the investigation of its traditional and more recent areas of research. The worldwide predominance of affective ant…
Political Action and Resentful Affectivity in Critical Times
How does the study of emotions help us understand engaging in or abstaining from violent and illegal political behaviors in the context of the Eurozone economic crisis? This question sits at the core of our article. We focus particularly on anger, fear, and hope hypothesizing that combined with perceptions of self-efficacy, these emotions fuse in complex affective blends of resentful or ressentiment-ful affectivity, which in turn determine the pa…
Covid-19 as cultural trauma
Sour grapes
This article examines the psychological orientations and political preferences of citizens ‘in ressentiment’, a particular psychological state that is a characteristic feature of contemporary grievance politics. Similarly to the Fox in Aesop’s ‘Fable of the sour grapes’, in ressentiment the value of an impotent self and a desirable but unattainable object change to a morally superior self and an unwanted object, while maintaining an aura of victi…
When do European election campaigns become about Europe
This article examines which parties included European issues in their 2014 European Parliament campaigns, and what influenced whether they did so, based on innovative data from the content analysis of 9,100 press releases in seven countries. Overall, established and especially governing parties no longer shied away from EU issues, referring to them as often as challenger parties did. The likelihood of EU issues in campaigns derives from a combina…
The Greek Green voter
The results achieved by the Ecologists-Greens (EG) between 2007 and 2009 represented the strongest ever electoral performance of any Greek ecological party. Was the rapid electoral rise of the Greek Green party a product of growing public concern about the environment after the destructive 2007 forest fires, or the result of a partisan dealignment in the Greek political system? A quantitative analysis of the demographic, behavioural, and attitudi…
Media and Nationalism
As divisive political ideologies in the era of globalizatin, contemporary nationalisms differ considerably from the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century nationalisms. They are fueled by the worldwide antinomy between the global and the local. Because nationalism is rooted deeply in different political cultures, nationalist biases affect the way journalists and media organizations select and present news stories about national collective identi…
Values and emotionality in Greek political culture
In this article, we provide a theoretical discussion of ressentiment within the emerging fields of the political sociology and political psychology of emotions and offer an empirical investigation of its political-cultural function. The complex emotion of ressentiment refers to a recurrent rumination on negative feelings and an affective compensation for life failures. Extant studies show ressentiment can be linked to electoral support for populi…
Greek Political Marketing Online
The new communication system of interconnected computer networks is altering the nature of political communication in many innovative and significant ways. In Greece, the development of the Internet as a mass communication medium has a history of no more than five years, and it is far from being a fully fledged medium of political communication. With the exception of relatively few cases, the use of the Internet has been shown to increase during …
Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy
The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the intern…
Media and Nationalism
As divisive political ideologies in the era of globalizatin, contemporary nationalisms differ considerably from the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century nationalisms. They are fueled by the worldwide antinomy between the global and the local. Because nationalism is rooted deeply in different political cultures, nationalist biases affect the way journalists and media organizations select and present news stories about national collective identi…
Greek Political Marketing Online
The new communication system of interconnected computer networks is altering the nature of political communication in many innovative and significant ways. In Greece, the development of the Internet as a mass communication medium has a history of no more than five years, and it is far from being a fully fledged medium of political communication. With the exception of relatively few cases, the use of the Internet has been shown to increase during …
Emotions and Populism
It is strange to think that the political sociology of emotions is quite immature when compared with the enormous growth of the sociology of emotion over the last 25 years or so (Kemper, 1990, 1991; Barbalet, 1998; Williams, 2001). Scholars have only recently brought emotions back in the analysis of social and political movements, power relations and institutions (Goodwin, Jasper and Polletta 2001; Holmes, 2004; Ost, 2004; Marcus, 2002; Berezin, …
Collective Fear and Societal Change
Emotions in politics
"Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the twin disciplines of political psychology and the political sociology of emotions to explore the complex relationship between politics and emotion at both the mass and individual level with special focus on cases of political tension. A role call of contributors from across the world and at the forefront of academic research in both …
The Greek Green voter
The results achieved by the Ecologists-Greens (EG) between 2007 and 2009 represented the strongest ever electoral performance of any Greek ecological party. Was the rapid electoral rise of the Greek Green party a product of growing public concern about the environment after the destructive 2007 forest fires, or the result of a partisan dealignment in the Greek political system? A quantitative analysis of the demographic, behavioural, and attitudi…
The Politics of Extreme Austerity
Political Action and Resentful Affectivity in Critical Times
How does the study of emotions help us understand engaging in or abstaining from violent and illegal political behaviors in the context of the Eurozone economic crisis? This question sits at the core of our article. We focus particularly on anger, fear, and hope hypothesizing that combined with perceptions of self-efficacy, these emotions fuse in complex affective blends of resentful or ressentiment-ful affectivity, which in turn determine the pa…
The civil war(s) trauma
An interpretation of the Greek civil war as an exemplary case of cultural trauma is attempted in this chapter. This is done through illuminating comparisons with other civil wars and by showcasing the politics of memory, the antagonistic regime of signification by which the war has been designated, and the emotional dynamics during the war and after the war was over. It is argued that, after a quarter of a century period of silence, the trauma dr…
Populism and the emotions
This chapter sheds light on the emotional underpinning of populist orientations and politics in relation to nostalgia, anger, fear, efficacy, resentment, and ressentiment. It keeps a distance from the mainstream ideational approach by defining populism as a schema consisting in two principal slots through which individuals orient themselves towards the political field: the ‘people’, and the division of society between two main power blocs. Specia…
The political sociology of emotions
A strong case is made in this chapter for an explicit articulation of the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of the ‘emotions sociology’ or the sociology of emotions. It is not only that many political sociologists and political theorists have carved out the space for such a disciplinary sub-field; it is also the hitherto fast growth of the sociology of emotions itself which has led to an over-diversified thematic agenda that begs for…
On trauma and cultural trauma
Stemming from its central staging in contemporary global risk society and post-conflict environments and international affairs on the one hand, and adopting a weak constructionist perspective on the other, cultural trauma is construed in this chapter as a retroactive societal meaning-making process initiated by ruptures of the social fabric. These ruptures are usually caused by damaging events like wars, genocides, famines, terrorist attacks, env…
Mediatizing traumatic experience and the emotions
This chapter focuses on the ways traumatic experiences are depicted and triggered by the media of communication. It also accounts for the multiple modes through which emotions have been treated in media scholarship. It is argued that for the most part the mediatization of others’ traumas gives rise to ‘quasi-emotions’ which are part and parcel of the spectacularization of suffering; however, it is also argued that there is space for full-fledged …
On resentment, ressentiment, and political action
Drawing from moral philosophy, historical, sociological, and psychoanalytic literature, this chapter copes with two akin yet different complex social emotions: resentment and ressentiment . The former is conceived as moral anger and the latter as an affective compensation for life failures. The gravity of the chapter lies with ressentiment , the compensatory nature of which consists in value reversal experienced by inferior social agents through …
The emotionality of the nation-state
From an emotions sociology point of view, after briefly tracing the emotional underpinnings of the main theorists of nationalism since the late nineteenth century, this chapter demonstrates the relational societal procedures involved in the affective bases of the nation state by deciphering the so-called ‘national sentiment’. Hatred, envy, pride, dignity, love, and fear are likely to become political emotions when deployed in the discourse and th…
Trauma and the politics of forgiveness
This chapter discusses forgiveness as an alternative moral-emotion response to trauma next to retaliatory revenge, justice, and non-forgiveness. Amidst a widespread emotional climate of cynicism on the one hand, and a permeating therapeutic culture on the other, forgiveness stands as a moral virtue to be differentiated from ostensible apologies and pardons premised on political imperatives in post-conflict societies, as well as from forgetting an…
Covid-19 as cultural trauma
When do European election campaigns become about Europe
This article examines which parties included European issues in their 2014 European Parliament campaigns, and what influenced whether they did so, based on innovative data from the content analysis of 9,100 press releases in seven countries. Overall, established and especially governing parties no longer shied away from EU issues, referring to them as often as challenger parties did. The likelihood of EU issues in campaigns derives from a combina…
The Political Sociology of Emotions
The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from reducing politics to affectivity, the political sociology of emotions is coterminous with political sociology itself plus the emotive angle added in the investigation of its traditional and more recent areas of research. The worldwide predominance of affective ant…
Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy
The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the intern…
Inclusion of People in Decision-Making
Reflecting on the May 2019 European Parliament elections, the EU democratic institutions are in need of efficiently responding to the discrepancies between public agendas and policy-making (as shown in the Macedonia naming dispute), and the threatening dynamics of authoritarian populism, as well as to unpredictable reactions from diverse groups and citizens, especially from the neglected, excluded and marginal ones. These citizens cannot handle c…
Values and emotionality in Greek political culture
In this article, we provide a theoretical discussion of ressentiment within the emerging fields of the political sociology and political psychology of emotions and offer an empirical investigation of its political-cultural function. The complex emotion of ressentiment refers to a recurrent rumination on negative feelings and an affective compensation for life failures. Extant studies show ressentiment can be linked to electoral support for populi…
Debating News Media
Against the backdrop of intertwined crises, this study explores discursive interplays between news media, journalists, and the audience. Analyzing media texts, it sets as its epicentre something that rarely concerns the academic community, i.e., the way in which Media talk about themselves, exploring their reflexive function and the ways they configure their relation to state and party politics, as well as professional identities. Employing focus…
Sour grapes
This article examines the psychological orientations and political preferences of citizens ‘in ressentiment’, a particular psychological state that is a characteristic feature of contemporary grievance politics. Similarly to the Fox in Aesop’s ‘Fable of the sour grapes’, in ressentiment the value of an impotent self and a desirable but unattainable object change to a morally superior self and an unwanted object, while maintaining an aura of victi…
Trusting during the pandemic
Introduction This study examines how different forms of trust shaped COVID-19 mortality across European countries, treating the pandemic as a collective action problem where compliance with public health measures was crucial. While trust is often discussed as a uniform resource, less attention has been paid to how social trust, political trust, and trust in scientists may have divergent effects on pandemic outcomes. Methods Using data from the Eu…
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