Papers by Pavlos Pantazis
During the last two decades Greece has become a multicultural society due to the influx of immigr... more During the last two decades Greece has become a multicultural society due to the influx of immigrants mainly from the Balkans and East Europe. At the same time Greece became fully integrated to the European Community. Within this context the relation of Greek national identity to Europe and to the immigrant ‘*ther’ becomes a topic of everyday conversations and a focal point of social scientific research. This study following a discourse analytic perspective (Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Potter, 1992; Potter, 1996; Potter and Wetherell, 1987) attempts to explore the way Greek people construct Greek national identity in relation to immigration and European integration within an interview context. It is argued that participants strategically managed stereotypes about immigrants in order to avoid accusations of prejudice, while stereotypes about the Europeans seemed to be informed by the ambivalent positioning of Greece between East and West (Bozatzis, 1998; Herzfeld, 1987).
During the last two decades Greece has become a multicultural society due to the influx of immigr... more During the last two decades Greece has become a multicultural society due to the influx of immigrants mainly from the Balkans and East Europe. At the same time Greece became fully integrated to the European Community. Within this context the relation of Greek national identity to Europe and to the immigrant ‘*ther’ becomes a topic of everyday conversations and a focal point of social scientific research. This study following a discourse analytic perspective (Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Potter, 1992; Potter, 1996; Potter and Wetherell, 1987) attempts to explore the way Greek people construct Greek national identity in relation to immigration and European integration within an interview context. It is argued that participants strategically managed stereotypes about immigrants in order to avoid accusations of prejudice, while stereotypes about the Europeans seemed to be informed by the ambivalent positioning of Greece between East and West (Bozatzis, 1998; Herzfeld, 1987).
Ιστορίες ζωής και μεταναστευτικά σχέδια στον αγροτικό χώρο. Η περίπτωση του Κεφαλόβρυσου, Jun 1991
Two Socio-psychological Comments on the Films of the Dardenne Brothers
The games of memory between the past and the present. The reflexive role of narrative.
In a University Course entitled «The use of Biographical Approach» we lived experience and feelin... more In a University Course entitled «The use of Biographical Approach» we lived experience and feelings that we wish to communicate and share with other students and professors.
Using personal life documents we construct our family-tree through our family-history. As an end, we collect information about places of birth and residence, important dates, main occupation, moral and religious beliefs, political ideologies, financial statuses, family development, significant crisis and transitions. We search our roots in depth, helped by oral
accounts of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
We learn new and unexpected information for many unknown aspects of our familyhistory. We understand that the stories of our individual lives are interconnected with broader stories. All those small pieces of stories, in turn, are related to the great historical events of the 20th century. We hear for the population forced exchange between Greece and Turkey after the First World War, the German occupation of Greece during the Second World War, the Greek Civil War and the refugees of those times, the liberation of Berlin by the Soviet Red Army at the end of the Second World War. Furthermore, we hear stories about the everyday worries of people. We finally realize that our stories are parts of other stories like the Russian doll, Babushka.
Keywords: identities, educational auto/biography, life-story, critical reflection
Using personal life documents we construct our family-tree through our family-history. As an end, we collect information about places of birth and residence, important dates, main occupation, moral and religious beliefs, political ideologies, financial statuses, family development, significant crisis and transitions. We search our roots in depth, helped by oral
accounts of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
We learn new and unexpected information for many unknown aspects of our familyhistory. We understand that the stories of our individual lives are interconnected with broader stories. All those small pieces of stories, in turn, are related to the great historical events of the 20th century. We hear for the population forced exchange between Greece and Turkey after the First World War, the German occupation of Greece during the Second World War, the Greek Civil War and the refugees of those times, the liberation of Berlin by the Soviet Red Army at the end of the Second World War. Furthermore, we hear stories about the everyday worries of people. We finally realize that our stories are parts of other stories like the Russian doll, Babushka.
Keywords: identities, educational auto/biography, life-story, critical reflection
Constructing the stereotype of immigrants' criminality: Accounts of fear and risk in talk about immigration to Greece
Journal of Community …
This paper explores the discursive construction of immigrants' criminality in interv... more 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 ...
Talks by Pavlos Pantazis
The present paper explores the way in which notions of national interest are mobilized in talk wi... more The present paper explores the way in which notions of national interest are mobilized in talk within the context of international animosity. While notions of group interest have been a focal point in the study of intergroup conflict and intergroup relations there has been scant attention on how people use notions of group interest in certain social and rhetorical contexts. This paper scrutinizes how formal members of Greek political parties used the notion of national interest in a narration about their party membership and the animosity between Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Following a discourse analytic perspective (Billig, 1987; Edwards, 1997; Potter & Wetherell, 1988; Potter, 1996) notions of national interest are depicted as a rhetorical tool people mobilize in their talk in order to achieve certain rhetorical tasks. Very often "the national interest was mobilized" in order to provide support for certain party policies and condemn those of other political parties. On occasions even people who argued against the existence of national interest mobilized it as a rhetorical tool in order to support the policy of their political party.