61st Political Studies Association Annual Conference
Transforming Politics: New Synergies
19-21 April 2011
Novotel London West

GPSG Panel 1 – Politics, Emotions and the Crisis (1)

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Journalism & Communication Research (CJCR) at Bournemouth University

Panel Convenor / Chair / Discussant: Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)

• Prof. Barry Richards (Bournemouth University), “Emotional Governance, Extremism and the National Stage”
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• Prof. Nicolas Demertzis (University of Athens), “The Emotions-Politics Nexus: Approaching the Crisis”
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• Dr. Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Discourse, Affect, Enjoyment: Lacanian Political Theory and the Economy” Download podcast

GPSG Panel 2 – Politics, Emotions and the Crisis (2)

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Public Communication Research (CPCR) at Bournemouth University

Panel Convenor: Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)
Chair: Dr. Dimitris Tsarouhas (Bilkent University)
Discussant: Prof. Barry Richards (Bournemouth University)

• Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University), “Extreme Emotions: Victimhood and populism in the discourse of Greek anarchists during the December 2008 riots” Download podcast

• Dr. Sappho Xenakis (ELIAMEP / University of Oxford), “In the eye of the beholder: Accounting for the role of emotions in Greek politics” Download podcast

• Giorgos Katsambekis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Populism in post-democratic times”
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GPSG Panel 3 – Contemporary Challenges: Greece Beyond the Crisis

Panel Convenors: Dr. Dimitris Tsarouhas (Bilkent University), Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)
Chair / Discussant: Dr. Dimitris Tsarouhas

• Dr. Georgios Karyotis (University of Strathclyde), “‘I Predict a Riot’: Public Responses to Economic Crisis Management in Greece”

• Theologia Iliadou (University of Warwick), “Migration: a Positive Actor for Greece?”

• Dr. Ioannis Andreadis and Prof. Theodore Chadjipadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “2011-P3-Andreadis-and-Chadjipadelis”

GPSG Panel 4 – The Transformation of Greek Party Politics

Panel Convenors: Dr. Dimitris Tsarouhas (Bilkent University), Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)
Chair: Dr. Ioannis Andreadis
Discussant: Dr. Chrisanthos Tassis

• Pavlos Vasilopoulos and Dr. Christoforos Vernardakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “The Rise and Fall of the Greek Conservative Party: Ideological Realignments and Egocentric Economic Voting at the Dawn of the Financial Crisis”

• Dr. Dimitris Tsarouhas (Bilkent University), “A window of opportunity: Greek social democracy in the crisis era”

• Costas Eleftheriou (University of Athens) and Dr. Chrisanthos Tassis (University of the Peloponnese), “Party organization as a ‘test tube’: PASOK before and after the ‘debt crisis’”

GPSG Panel 5 – Youth Policy in Europe and Greece

Panel Convenor: Dora Giannaki (Queen Mary, University of London)
Chair/Discussant: Dr. Roman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University)

• Dora Giannaki (Queen Mary, University of London), “The History of Youth Work and Youth Policy in Greece”

• Paschalis Aganidis (General Secretariat for Youth), “An innovative youth policy and the concept of intergenerational justice”