In this paper I argue that the refugee crisis, in terms of discourse and sequence of events, has been deliberately misused by the EU policymakers in order to govern unwanted human mobility and to impose and legitimize brutal, obscene and violent politics, such as the EU-Turkey Statement, the Hotspot Approach and the geographical restriction rule….
Celebrities participate in performances from the zones of suffering in order to trigger emotions to their audiences and engage them in such causes. In this combination of critical discourse analysis and rhetoric analysis, the author analyses four cases of celebrities: Angelina Jolie, Mandy Patinkin, a group of actors form the popular series Game of Thrones…
The island of Lesvos is composed of landscapes that have been influenced since antiquity and has been used by its inhabitants for many centuries. Now, in the wake of the civil war in … >>> Miller, D.S., Chtouris, S. Space and Culture 20(3), 359-68 (2017) Recent related articles in this category All articles in this…
In the extended region of the Aegean Sea, encompassing the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, and the Black Sea as well, we can easily identify, along several millennia, three important geographic axes: the East-West one, the North-South one, and the third one linking, on the general direction leading from Southwest to Northeast the Aegean and the Black…
The paper addresses the extent to which travelers’ relations, local literary sources and scattered journalistic impressions provide information as to the aspect and composition of past landscapes in the island of Lesvos. Vernicos, N. Presentation at a meeting held at the Orthodox Academy, Kolymbari,Crete. on 20-22 April 1990 as part of a European Community project…