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Милонас Янис

Факультет креативных индустрий

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Публикаций
50
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2
Наград
1
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0
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Должности

  • Доцент — Факультет креативных индустрий, Институт медиа

Био

  • · Начал работать в НИУ ВШЭ в 2014 году.
  • · Научно-педагогический стаж: 11 лет.

Образование

  • 2009 · PhD: Копенгагенский университет, тема диссертации: ‘Discursive struggles on the “war on terror”; politics, crisis and Representation’
  • 2002 · Магистратура: Университет Бата, специальность «Прикладная социальная психология», квалификация «Магистр наук»
  • 2001 · Бакалавриат: Университет Янины, специальность «философия»

Опыт работы

  • · Associate Professor at the Media, Communications and Design Department, National, Research University, Higher School of Economics, in Moscow, Russia
  • · Post-doctoral researcher at the Media and Communications Department, Lund University in Sweden (2010-2012)
  • · Lecturer at the Film, Media, Cognition and Communication Department and at the Cultural Studies Department, Copenhagen University in Denmark (2007-2014)

Награды и поощрения

  • · Лучший преподаватель — 2024–2025

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Публикации (50)

Class and Conjuncture in Television, Cinema and Literature

2026 · BOOK · en

This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 2008 financial crash. It demonstrates how culture serves as a crucial site for capturing the contemporary "structure of feeling", publicly mediating the period's pervasive social anxieties. Through its dissection of both major and minor works across genres (such as satire, horror and autofiction) produced in the centres and peripheries of global capitalism, the book highlights how class experiences like privilege, precarity and ressentiment are narrativized.

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Class contexts in popular drama and horror cinema and TV

2025 · ARTICLE · en

This study aims to critically approach representations of class in specific recent popular drama/ horror films and TV series, notably Parasite, Joker, Squid Games (Season 1) and The Menu, which achieved worldwide popularity and success over the last few years. These productions reflect the current, critical historical conjuncture. Class is a central denominator of crisis symptomatic of late capitalist reproduction processes. Drawing on narrative analysis, class constructions are theorised through the psychoanalytical notion of the abject (Kristeva 1982).

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Mainstreaming class (dis)contents in popular film and TV series: HBO’s The White Lotus (S1) and Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness

2024 · ARTICLE · en

The empirical focus of this study is Season 1 of the popular HBO series The White Lotus (2020) and Ruben Östlund’s film Triangle of Sadness (2022), both of which achieved worldwide popularity and critical acclaim. The study draws on narrative analysis, to examine class relations and class subjectivities in these productions. Anchored in today’s highly precarious and competitive neo-liberal capitalist context, with its growing inequalities and crises, these productions tackle different classed selves, relations and circumstances, depicted in both realistic and metaphorical terms. The White Lotus (S1) focuses on the high consumerism, of the White upper-middle class in a lavish gated tourist resort in Hawaii. Departing from profligate consumerist practices the Triangle of Sadness develops a metaphoric setting where social hierarchies are briefly overturned. Humour as a central practice of upper-class exposure and ridiculing is deployed in both productions. The analysis demonstrates that although cynicism and egotism prevail across all class identities, the middle and upper class proves to be resilient to all crises and struggles that appear in the plot, at the expense of the working class. This suggests the lack of a political vision for the working class and the reproduction of middle-class hegemony.

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Framing migration in the Greek press; An analysis of the ‘Evros events’ in left, liberal, and far-right newspapers

2024 · ARTICLE · en

In this article we focus on one important event related to the Greek dimensions of the so called refugee crisis in Europe. This event took place during late February and March 2020 and is known as the Evros events that occurred when Turkey decided to open its European borders to the refugees. Greece responded by closing its land borders with Turkey, and by halting the asylum application process. The area surrounding the Evros River in Greece became heavily policed by the Greek police and the EU’s Frontex border police, further aided by various citizen militias consisting of Greek and other EU nationals. This research analyzes the newsmedia coverage of the specific incident through a qualitative frame analysis on news articles written by five Greek newspapers that have different political affiliations. The analysis then answers a two-fold research question: how did the Greek press frame the Evros events, and how did these frames contribute to the public debate around migration in the country.

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Imperialism, Revisionism, Counter-hegemony, and the Greek 1940s as Event

2024 · ARTICLE · en

This study focuses on contemporary cultural projects dealing with Greek events of the turbulent 1940s. Empirically, the study examines a growing corpus of different cultural practices, such as documentary films, artistic performances, public history walks, and theater, dealing with aspects of the Greek 1940s. Such projects are viewed as counter-archives and further conceptualized through notions of the public sphere associated with discourses, narratives, and practices situated in today’s Greek political antagonisms. The past is understood to haunt the present and the projects studied create public presences of subjects and circumstances absent from the mainstream Greek public sphere. This signifies a pro- duction of knowledge from below, beyond what official knowledge regimes prioritize and exclude.

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Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece, Volume 1. Otherness, Reactionary Politics, the Class Gaze

2024 · BOOK · en

This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power for the Greek context. In doing so, it embraces intersectional approaches that study class structures in their co-constructions/co-articulations with other forms of social organization and identification, such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, geography and labor. Instead of providing clear-cut definitions, the chapters reveal the complexities and relationalities of class cultures and classed selves in their making. Volume one brings forth studies concerned with intersectional questions of class, notions of otherness, and forms of exclusion as they appear in popular media genres over a variety of social issues. Further, the volume also deals with class-related issues connected to the study of reactionary, far-right, and racist content advancing in Greek public spheres.

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On the proletarian public sphere and its contemporaneity: crises, class and the media

2023 · ARTICLE · en

This article attempts a critical enquiry into contemporary politics and culture as characterized by a prolonged capitalist crisis and its concomitant economic, social, political, and environmental dimensions. The article highlights the position of the working class today, and its critical potential for a politics of social change, and socialism. Class is understood in intersectional terms, taking into consideration the associations of ethnicity, race and gender in the formation of classed subjects in a globalized world. The experience of the lower classes in structural as well as political terms, is largely negated from publicity, or assimilated and distorted by the media and cultural industries. This has dire consequences for understanding the crisis, its causes, effects, and possible solutions, interpellating the working class and the poor to bourgeois norms and sensibilities. The negation of proletarian voices and the mediation of the proletarian experience by hegemonic bourgeois ideas is theoretically discussed, drawing on the proletarian public sphere notion, and also by looking at empirical contexts of media practices (notably the mainstream news coverage of the Greek/European economic crisis of the 2010’s, and the European “refugee crisis” from 2015 onwards). By not addressing the systemic foundations of crises (e.g., economic, humanitarian) in their complexity, the insecurities triggered by neoliberalism are articulated by liberal pundits and mainstream media through discourses blaming targeted groups (e.g., migrants and workers of the European periphery). Hence, the development of effective antagonistic politics, relies on the creation of both organizational forms and communication structures, to produce shared meanings and identities, as well as political goals and strategies; class perspectives are crucial to overcome the prolonged, current political impasse that capitalist society reproduces, and the possibility to overcome the crises that capitalism produces.

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Trolling as transgression: Subversive affirmations against neoliberal austerity

2021 · ARTICLE · en

This article draws attention to one of the neglected aspects of trolling in current literature: its potential to stand as a form of cultural politics that may inform counter-hegemonic challenges to prevalent ideologies. Rather than merely perceiving trolling as a threat to normality or a proof of the internet’s dystopic character, we look at the ways that certain trolls employ the method of ‘subversive affirmation’ for effectively addressing current events, and to mock hegemonic ideological currents, lifestyles and contexts in Greece today. We argue that the trolls we study are positioned against the hegemonic neoliberal framework and its attempts to achieve consensus on the supposed necessity of austerity reforms and the maintenance of the euro currency, as well as against a prevailing conservativism and nationalism that blend with the broader neoliberal assemblage of discourses, policies and practices in Greek society. By developing a thematic analysis on selected Facebook trolls’ posts, we discuss the ways that trolls function politically, transgressing the limits of the hegemonic discourses and identities, as well as the norms of mediated dialogue, deliberation and critique. The key mechanisms deployed by the trolls are the overlapping practices of over-identification and humour. This article suggests seeing trolling as a form of cultural production that not only damages, but redirects desires, produces identifications and instils passionate investments in political ideologies.

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Interpolations of class, “race”, and politics: Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten and its coverage of Greek national elections during the “Greek crisis”

2021 · ARTICLE · en

This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content analysis is deployed to study a corpus of 70 news and editorial articles published by JP on the aforementioned topic. Our analysis highlights the existence of three main interrelated themes in JP’s constructions of the Greek elections: a moralist, a culturalist, and a technocratic/ anti-leftist theme. These themes are theorised through the use of relevant theory on class cultures and politics today.

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Inter- and Intranational Mediated Shaming to Justify Austerity Measures: The Case of the ‘Greek Crisis’

2021 · CHAPTER · en

This chapter focuses on media practices of shaming, as performed during the early years of the so-called Greek crisis (2009–2015) by the news media of Germany, Denmark and Greece. The chapter shows that the hegemonic publicity around the ‘Greek crisis’ cumulated into a public shaming practice of the Greek people, ridiculed by media spectacles of crisis. Although ‘all Greeks’ were blamed for the crisis, the media focused on examples of lay wrongdoings, such as practices of petty corruption instead of examining the systemic character of corruption in capitalism. Shaming here is therefore connected to the politics of the crisis and austerity and is meant to discipline the object of austerity reforms.

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Курсы (6)