Feeling the Greek Financial Crisis

Abstract

Since 2010 Greece has been undergoing a severe socio-economic crisis which has affected everyday life in a multitude of ways. Media reportage has generally interpreted and represented these crisis effects through a negative emotional discourse that includes conditions of anger, rage, wrath, anxiety, fear, threat, distrust and depression. Although these terms are mediatizations of what people actually feel, they provide an anecdotal index of the multifaceted emotional responses of Greek citizens to the financial crisis.