The rise of the far right in Greece and opposition to ‘othering’, hate speech, and crime by civil and civic organizations

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ID21189556
AuthorsGabriella Lazaridis (University of Leicester, corresponding author), M Veikou (0000-0001-9445-4684, University of Leicester)
Year2017
Volume13
Issue1
Pages1-17
Publication date2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Civil Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-8689 • E-ISSN: 1744-8697
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17448689.2016.1251032
OpenAlexW2559274013
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited55

This article focuses on forms of opposition to ‘othering’ and far-right politics in present-day Greece. This opposition takes a variety of forms, comes from a range of actors, and is motivated by a number of concerns with differing assessments of what should be done. More specifically, the article focuses on the far right in Greece and discrimination, hate speech, and hate crime against the ‘other’ from the perspectives of those who are active in mobilizing against racism and counteracting the country’s populist and neo-nationalist turn. Concentrating on the forces opposing discrimination, the analysis describes present-day social movements and actions from grassroots to governmental level, their strategies and politics, their diversity of thought and action, and their contribution in providing the resources for social change, and the production of new meaning in the context of anti-racism in Greece. Trying to provide answers as to how social movements and activists produce meaning, we argue that activists develop less intentional, inadvertent meanings which emerge in the course of the not-always conscious schemas of their struggle. This calls for a more dynamic explanation of the relationship between practice and meaning-making in social movement contexts

Civil society · Criminology · Grassroots · Ideology · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social movement · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Religion and Society Interactions · Turkey's Politics and Society

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