Lia Figgou
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 156286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lia Figgou |
| PRENOMES | Lia |
| SOBRENOME | Figgou |
| ASSINATURA | FIGGOU L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5758-6936 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
‘Left-wing authoritarianism’ as situated rhetoric
Soon after the publication of The Authoritarian Personality , scholars advanced the argument that authoritarianism may also be encountered in the political left, fueling a scientific debate that is far from resolved. Adopting a critical discursive social psychology perspective, we analyzed 3,500 X posts shared by Nea Dimokratia (ND) MPs (Greek political right) between 2018-2024, documenting how conservative politicians mobilize a Left-Wing Author…
RegularizaciónYa
This article examines how migrant-led activism in Spain uses collective narratives to legitimize migration regularization and enact citizenship. European states regulate human migration through legal status, producing administrative irregularity that restricts access to work, welfare, and protection, and that structures everyday life through prolonged bureaucratic waiting, suspended plans, precarious work, and exposure to preventable harm. Agains…
Citizenship in social and political psychology
This article presents a social‐political psychological approach to citizenship, arguing that this approach is particularly useful for understanding contemporary politics. We discuss political changes that bring the concept of citizenship to the center of sociopolitical psychological analysis and necessitate a systematic reapproach to it to capture its complexity. We introduce a relational and process‐based approach to citizenship that incorporate…
Accounting for access to healthcare
This study explores how social actors account for psychosocial barriers to healthcare access. Interviews with 17 residents in remote regions of Greece and 12 professionals employed by Mobile Medical Units were analyzed using the tools and concepts of critical discursive social psychology. Analysis indicated that, oriented to different accountability concerns, residents tended to attribute reluctance to seek medical help to structural barriers, wh…
Constructing Talent and Flexibility in Focus Group Discussions on Inequality and Unemployment in Greece
This article examines the ways in which participants construct talent and flexibility in accounts of income inequality and (un)employment in Greece. Eight (8) focus groups with forty‐one (41) Greek citizens, aged 18–65 years were conducted. Analysis used the principles of Critical Discursive Social Psychology (CDSP). Participants were asked to evaluate the compensation that should be given to employees from different professional categories and t…
Constructions of diversity, hierarchies, and identity intersections in LGBTQ+ activists’ interview talk
LGBTQ+ movements face significant challenges regarding tensions and dilemmas around membership, objectives, and relations within or between groups. This paper aims to explore the argumentative resources mobilized to construct LGBTQ+ activist claims and objectives in activists’ interview talk in Greece. For the purposes of the study, individual semistructured interviews with nine LGBTQ+ activists based in Thessaloniki and Athens were held. Analysi…
Integration and urban citizenship
The current research explores refugee integration through the analysis of active constructions of everyday life in Greek cities. It draws from critical social and political psychology literature that explores spatial aspects of intergroup relations and developments in citizenship and migration studies. For the purposes of the study, 25 walking interviews with refugees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia,…
A Lesser of Two Evils”
Introduction While there is extensive quantitative research on factors related to support/opposition of attitudes towards same-sex parenting (SSP), relevant qualitative research is limited, despite the need to identify subtle and ambivalent forms of prejudice. In this study we examined ways that young people, university students at the Republic of Cyprus formulated favourable arguments that constructed only at first appearance supportive represen…
Future plans and integration in the Greek cities
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic
This article explores constructions of consensus and unity and their potential implications on partisan politics and democratic decision making in parliamentary discourse on the management of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Greece. The analytic corpus consists of transcripts of three debates on COVID‐19 management in the Greek parliament, conducted in the period from April 2020 to October 2021. Analysis using tools and concepts of rhetorical and discurs…
Exploring subject positions in Greek migrants' discourse on mobility decisions
The current study explores the ways in which Greek migrants in their early adulthood position themselves in discourse on mobility decisions. For the purposes of the study, 17 virtual interviews with Greek migrants (aged between 25–40 years old) in European cities were conducted. Analysis, based on the principles of critical discursive social psychology, indicated that, in their accounts of migration decision‐making, participants positioned themse…
Conspiracy theories in online deliberation on gender identity legislation
Conspiracy theories have recently come under the scrutiny of social psychology. While some theorists have treated them as a deficient way of thinking, others have considered them as a form of political rhetoric with important social implications. We focus on conspiracy theories in the context of online public deliberation on legislation allowing registration of self-defined gender in Greece. Employing the tools of Critical Discursive Psychology, …
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse
This study documented the rhetorical constructions of ‘human rights’ in political discourse and the potential implications of their invocation as a frame for LGBTQI+ claims. The minutes of the VI Greek Parliamentary session on a bill related to the legal recognition of gender identity, conducted in 2017, were analyzed. Analysis utilized the concepts of Rhetorical and Critical Discursive Social Psychology, indicating that human rights are flexibly…
Waved and unwaved flags
This article focuses on the ways in which LGBT+ flag raising in a university at the Republic of Cyprus was debated in a social media environment. It aims to examine the ways in which discourses around sexuality intersect with discourses around the nation in a postcolonial, ethnically divided, European context. One hundred four comments posted on the university Facebook page were analysed through Thematic and Rhetorical analysis. Analysis revealed…
Constructions of LGBTQI + rights and claims in lay discourse in Greece
This study explores ways in which diverse LGBTQI+ claim frames are sedimented in Greek everyday discourse. Specifically, it is interested in the identification of the argumentative resources that inform lay constructions of LGBTQI+ claims and rights, as well as of their potential social implications. The research data are drawn from seven focus groups, conducted in Thessaloniki, Greece and analysed by the conceptual tools of Critical Discursive S…
Accounting for organ donation decision-making
The study casts light on the organ donation decision-making process by exploring the experiences of families and physicians involved. Specifically, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 family members of 11 different donors and with 13 intensive care unit physicians. Data collection and analysis draws on the principles of Grounded Theory Methodology. Analysis indicated that in the accounts of both groups, organ donation is represented…
Agency and Accountability in (Un)Employment-Related Discourse in the Era of “Crisis”
This study explores the ways in which young people orient to and manage their agency in (un)employment-related discourse in “crisis ridden” Greece. It focuses on data elicited by semistructured interviews with 40 people, aged between 18 and 29 years. Interviews were analyzed by the principles of critical discursive social psychology. Analysis indicated that, in the context of accounting for job loss, participants mobilized the rhetoric of “crisis…
Lay discourses about Brexit and prejudice
Much research on Brexit has studied whether the vote to leave the EU is a marker of growing prejudice. In this article, we study instead how the relationship between support for Brexit and prejudice is constructed, negotiated and contested in lay discourse. Our analysis of focus groups ( N = 12) conducted prior to and following the EU referendum shows that support for Brexit was predominantly constructed as based on nationalism and anti‐immigrati…
Constructions of Participatory Democracy Institutions and Same‐Sex Union Rights in Online Public Deliberation in Greece
This article aims to explore the argumentative lines employed in an online public deliberation concerned with legislation on same‐sex civil union in Greece. Drawing on rhetorical and discursive developments in political social psychology and sexual citizenship debates, the article focuses on arguments regarding the relevance and the implications of public deliberation on the construction of LGBTQI+ claims and rights. The analytic corpus consisted…
Acculturation as intergenerational trajectory and accountability concerns in immigrant youth discourse
The aim of this study is to explore the ways in which young ‘second generation’ immigrants from Albania in Greece account for their acculturation in semi-structured interviews and orient to different acculturation strategies. Interviews took place in Thessaloniki and 6 women and 13 men, aged between 21 and 30 years, participated. Analysis, which used the tools and concepts of discursive and rhetorical social psychology, indicated that participant…
Multiculturalism, immigrants’ integration, and citizenship
Acculturation and intergroup relations in the school context
Europe” in Greece
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of “Europeanness” as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from 2 rounds of online public deliberation (2009–2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbol…
Social Psychology
Constructions of ‘Illegal’ Immigration and Entitlement to Citizenship
This study explores the ways in which constructions of immigrants' illegality and accounts on the meaning of naturalization and citizenship serve as argumentative resources against a particular immigration law in Greece. Data consisted of transcripts of parliamentary speeches by political party leaders who opposed the law. Analysis used the tools and concepts of discursive and rhetorical social psychology and identified three main lines of arguin…
Constructing the stereotype of immigrants' criminality
This paper explores the discursive construction of immigrants' criminality in interview accounts obtained by a sample of Greek people in Thessaloniki (Northern Greece). Analysis, which adopts a discursive approach to stereotypes and category construction, indicates that fear and insecurity on the part of Greek people are represented as a sine qua non consequence of immigration to Greece. Two different lines of argument are used to account for the…
Constructions of ‘Illegal’ Immigration and Entitlement to Citizenship
This study explores the ways in which constructions of immigrants' illegality and accounts on the meaning of naturalization and citizenship serve as argumentative resources against a particular immigration law in Greece. Data consisted of transcripts of parliamentary speeches by political party leaders who opposed the law. Analysis used the tools and concepts of discursive and rhetorical social psychology and identified three main lines of arguin…
Europe” in Greece
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of “Europeanness” as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from 2 rounds of online public deliberation (2009–2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbol…
Integration and urban citizenship
The current research explores refugee integration through the analysis of active constructions of everyday life in Greek cities. It draws from critical social and political psychology literature that explores spatial aspects of intergroup relations and developments in citizenship and migration studies. For the purposes of the study, 25 walking interviews with refugees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia,…
Constructions of LGBTQI + rights and claims in lay discourse in Greece
This study explores ways in which diverse LGBTQI+ claim frames are sedimented in Greek everyday discourse. Specifically, it is interested in the identification of the argumentative resources that inform lay constructions of LGBTQI+ claims and rights, as well as of their potential social implications. The research data are drawn from seven focus groups, conducted in Thessaloniki, Greece and analysed by the conceptual tools of Critical Discursive S…
Constructions of Participatory Democracy Institutions and Same‐Sex Union Rights in Online Public Deliberation in Greece
This article aims to explore the argumentative lines employed in an online public deliberation concerned with legislation on same‐sex civil union in Greece. Drawing on rhetorical and discursive developments in political social psychology and sexual citizenship debates, the article focuses on arguments regarding the relevance and the implications of public deliberation on the construction of LGBTQI+ claims and rights. The analytic corpus consisted…
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse
This study documented the rhetorical constructions of ‘human rights’ in political discourse and the potential implications of their invocation as a frame for LGBTQI+ claims. The minutes of the VI Greek Parliamentary session on a bill related to the legal recognition of gender identity, conducted in 2017, were analyzed. Analysis utilized the concepts of Rhetorical and Critical Discursive Social Psychology, indicating that human rights are flexibly…
Waved and unwaved flags
This article focuses on the ways in which LGBT+ flag raising in a university at the Republic of Cyprus was debated in a social media environment. It aims to examine the ways in which discourses around sexuality intersect with discourses around the nation in a postcolonial, ethnically divided, European context. One hundred four comments posted on the university Facebook page were analysed through Thematic and Rhetorical analysis. Analysis revealed…
Lay discourses about Brexit and prejudice
Much research on Brexit has studied whether the vote to leave the EU is a marker of growing prejudice. In this article, we study instead how the relationship between support for Brexit and prejudice is constructed, negotiated and contested in lay discourse. Our analysis of focus groups ( N = 12) conducted prior to and following the EU referendum shows that support for Brexit was predominantly constructed as based on nationalism and anti‐immigrati…
Acculturation and intergroup relations in the school context
Categories We Share’
Prejudice reduction has been an important concern within social psychology both in theory and applied research. According to the premises of Social Identity Theory, redrawing of the category boundaries is often considered a necessary step in order to battle prejudice, because in‐group favouritism when the category boundaries change is diffused to the previously distinct identities. The present paper offers a review of the relevant research, and f…
Citizenship in social and political psychology
This article presents a social‐political psychological approach to citizenship, arguing that this approach is particularly useful for understanding contemporary politics. We discuss political changes that bring the concept of citizenship to the center of sociopolitical psychological analysis and necessitate a systematic reapproach to it to capture its complexity. We introduce a relational and process‐based approach to citizenship that incorporate…
Conspiracy theories in online deliberation on gender identity legislation
Conspiracy theories have recently come under the scrutiny of social psychology. While some theorists have treated them as a deficient way of thinking, others have considered them as a form of political rhetoric with important social implications. We focus on conspiracy theories in the context of online public deliberation on legislation allowing registration of self-defined gender in Greece. Employing the tools of Critical Discursive Psychology, …
Categorising Category Labels in Interview Accounts about the 'Muslim Minority' in Greece
In this paper we examine the construction of categorical distinctions and the negotiation of category labels in interview accounts given by a sample of the majority population (Orthodox Christians) in Thrace (Northern Greece) concerning their co-existence with the Muslim minority. Employing a rhetorical approach to categorisation, we argue that category labels constitute argumentative positions which reflect culturally specific assumptions around…
Constructions of diversity, hierarchies, and identity intersections in LGBTQ+ activists’ interview talk
LGBTQ+ movements face significant challenges regarding tensions and dilemmas around membership, objectives, and relations within or between groups. This paper aims to explore the argumentative resources mobilized to construct LGBTQ+ activist claims and objectives in activists’ interview talk in Greece. For the purposes of the study, individual semistructured interviews with nine LGBTQ+ activists based in Thessaloniki and Athens were held. Analysi…
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic
This article explores constructions of consensus and unity and their potential implications on partisan politics and democratic decision making in parliamentary discourse on the management of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Greece. The analytic corpus consists of transcripts of three debates on COVID‐19 management in the Greek parliament, conducted in the period from April 2020 to October 2021. Analysis using tools and concepts of rhetorical and discurs…
Accounting for organ donation decision-making
The study casts light on the organ donation decision-making process by exploring the experiences of families and physicians involved. Specifically, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 family members of 11 different donors and with 13 intensive care unit physicians. Data collection and analysis draws on the principles of Grounded Theory Methodology. Analysis indicated that in the accounts of both groups, organ donation is represented…
‘They're not racist …’ Prejudice denial, mitigation and suppression in dialogue
Social scientific work on the suppression, mitigation or denial of prejudiced attitudes has tended to focus on the strategic self‐presentation and self‐monitoring undertaken by individual social actors on their own behalf. In this paper, we argue that existing perspectives might usefully be extended to incorporate three additional considerations. First, that social actors may, on some occasions, act to defend not only themselves, but also others …
Categorising Category Labels in Interview Accounts about the 'Muslim Minority' in Greece
In this paper we examine the construction of categorical distinctions and the negotiation of category labels in interview accounts given by a sample of the majority population (Orthodox Christians) in Thrace (Northern Greece) concerning their co-existence with the Muslim minority. Employing a rhetorical approach to categorisation, we argue that category labels constitute argumentative positions which reflect culturally specific assumptions around…
Constructing the stereotype of immigrants' criminality
This paper explores the discursive construction of immigrants' criminality in interview accounts obtained by a sample of Greek people in Thessaloniki (Northern Greece). Analysis, which adopts a discursive approach to stereotypes and category construction, indicates that fear and insecurity on the part of Greek people are represented as a sine qua non consequence of immigration to Greece. Two different lines of argument are used to account for the…
Categories We Share’
Prejudice reduction has been an important concern within social psychology both in theory and applied research. According to the premises of Social Identity Theory, redrawing of the category boundaries is often considered a necessary step in order to battle prejudice, because in‐group favouritism when the category boundaries change is diffused to the previously distinct identities. The present paper offers a review of the relevant research, and f…
Social Psychology
Constructions of ‘Illegal’ Immigration and Entitlement to Citizenship
This study explores the ways in which constructions of immigrants' illegality and accounts on the meaning of naturalization and citizenship serve as argumentative resources against a particular immigration law in Greece. Data consisted of transcripts of parliamentary speeches by political party leaders who opposed the law. Analysis used the tools and concepts of discursive and rhetorical social psychology and identified three main lines of arguin…
Europe” in Greece
In this paper, we analyse discourses about Europe in Greek debates about immigration and citizenship and highlight the complexities of “Europeanness” as a symbolic resource for argumentation in these debates. Our data consist of lay discourses from 2 rounds of online public deliberation (2009–2010 and 2015) about a controversial new citizenship law in Greece. Our analysis shows that Europe is an ambivalent category. On the one hand, Europe symbol…
Multiculturalism, immigrants’ integration, and citizenship
Acculturation and intergroup relations in the school context
Acculturation as intergenerational trajectory and accountability concerns in immigrant youth discourse
The aim of this study is to explore the ways in which young ‘second generation’ immigrants from Albania in Greece account for their acculturation in semi-structured interviews and orient to different acculturation strategies. Interviews took place in Thessaloniki and 6 women and 13 men, aged between 21 and 30 years, participated. Analysis, which used the tools and concepts of discursive and rhetorical social psychology, indicated that participant…
Agency and Accountability in (Un)Employment-Related Discourse in the Era of “Crisis”
This study explores the ways in which young people orient to and manage their agency in (un)employment-related discourse in “crisis ridden” Greece. It focuses on data elicited by semistructured interviews with 40 people, aged between 18 and 29 years. Interviews were analyzed by the principles of critical discursive social psychology. Analysis indicated that, in the context of accounting for job loss, participants mobilized the rhetoric of “crisis…
Lay discourses about Brexit and prejudice
Much research on Brexit has studied whether the vote to leave the EU is a marker of growing prejudice. In this article, we study instead how the relationship between support for Brexit and prejudice is constructed, negotiated and contested in lay discourse. Our analysis of focus groups ( N = 12) conducted prior to and following the EU referendum shows that support for Brexit was predominantly constructed as based on nationalism and anti‐immigrati…
Constructions of Participatory Democracy Institutions and Same‐Sex Union Rights in Online Public Deliberation in Greece
This article aims to explore the argumentative lines employed in an online public deliberation concerned with legislation on same‐sex civil union in Greece. Drawing on rhetorical and discursive developments in political social psychology and sexual citizenship debates, the article focuses on arguments regarding the relevance and the implications of public deliberation on the construction of LGBTQI+ claims and rights. The analytic corpus consisted…
Constructions of LGBTQI + rights and claims in lay discourse in Greece
This study explores ways in which diverse LGBTQI+ claim frames are sedimented in Greek everyday discourse. Specifically, it is interested in the identification of the argumentative resources that inform lay constructions of LGBTQI+ claims and rights, as well as of their potential social implications. The research data are drawn from seven focus groups, conducted in Thessaloniki, Greece and analysed by the conceptual tools of Critical Discursive S…
Accounting for organ donation decision-making
The study casts light on the organ donation decision-making process by exploring the experiences of families and physicians involved. Specifically, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 family members of 11 different donors and with 13 intensive care unit physicians. Data collection and analysis draws on the principles of Grounded Theory Methodology. Analysis indicated that in the accounts of both groups, organ donation is represented…
Exploring subject positions in Greek migrants' discourse on mobility decisions
The current study explores the ways in which Greek migrants in their early adulthood position themselves in discourse on mobility decisions. For the purposes of the study, 17 virtual interviews with Greek migrants (aged between 25–40 years old) in European cities were conducted. Analysis, based on the principles of critical discursive social psychology, indicated that, in their accounts of migration decision‐making, participants positioned themse…
Conspiracy theories in online deliberation on gender identity legislation
Conspiracy theories have recently come under the scrutiny of social psychology. While some theorists have treated them as a deficient way of thinking, others have considered them as a form of political rhetoric with important social implications. We focus on conspiracy theories in the context of online public deliberation on legislation allowing registration of self-defined gender in Greece. Employing the tools of Critical Discursive Psychology, …
Debating the legal recognition of gender identity in parliamentary discourse
This study documented the rhetorical constructions of ‘human rights’ in political discourse and the potential implications of their invocation as a frame for LGBTQI+ claims. The minutes of the VI Greek Parliamentary session on a bill related to the legal recognition of gender identity, conducted in 2017, were analyzed. Analysis utilized the concepts of Rhetorical and Critical Discursive Social Psychology, indicating that human rights are flexibly…
Waved and unwaved flags
This article focuses on the ways in which LGBT+ flag raising in a university at the Republic of Cyprus was debated in a social media environment. It aims to examine the ways in which discourses around sexuality intersect with discourses around the nation in a postcolonial, ethnically divided, European context. One hundred four comments posted on the university Facebook page were analysed through Thematic and Rhetorical analysis. Analysis revealed…
A Lesser of Two Evils”
Introduction While there is extensive quantitative research on factors related to support/opposition of attitudes towards same-sex parenting (SSP), relevant qualitative research is limited, despite the need to identify subtle and ambivalent forms of prejudice. In this study we examined ways that young people, university students at the Republic of Cyprus formulated favourable arguments that constructed only at first appearance supportive represen…
Future plans and integration in the Greek cities
Appeals to Consensus and Partisan Politics in Parliamentary Discourse on the Pandemic
This article explores constructions of consensus and unity and their potential implications on partisan politics and democratic decision making in parliamentary discourse on the management of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Greece. The analytic corpus consists of transcripts of three debates on COVID‐19 management in the Greek parliament, conducted in the period from April 2020 to October 2021. Analysis using tools and concepts of rhetorical and discurs…
Constructing Talent and Flexibility in Focus Group Discussions on Inequality and Unemployment in Greece
This article examines the ways in which participants construct talent and flexibility in accounts of income inequality and (un)employment in Greece. Eight (8) focus groups with forty‐one (41) Greek citizens, aged 18–65 years were conducted. Analysis used the principles of Critical Discursive Social Psychology (CDSP). Participants were asked to evaluate the compensation that should be given to employees from different professional categories and t…
Constructions of diversity, hierarchies, and identity intersections in LGBTQ+ activists’ interview talk
LGBTQ+ movements face significant challenges regarding tensions and dilemmas around membership, objectives, and relations within or between groups. This paper aims to explore the argumentative resources mobilized to construct LGBTQ+ activist claims and objectives in activists’ interview talk in Greece. For the purposes of the study, individual semistructured interviews with nine LGBTQ+ activists based in Thessaloniki and Athens were held. Analysi…
Integration and urban citizenship
The current research explores refugee integration through the analysis of active constructions of everyday life in Greek cities. It draws from critical social and political psychology literature that explores spatial aspects of intergroup relations and developments in citizenship and migration studies. For the purposes of the study, 25 walking interviews with refugees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia,…
Sociology (24 obras) · Political science (21 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras)