The poetics of anti-Americanism in Greece: Rhetoric, agency, and local meaning

Social Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 106-124

  Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth ^a   Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti Americanism; Conspiracy theory; Greece; Local actors; Nationalism; Political agency; Rhetoric; Western powers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956036457     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2010.540107     Document Type: Article

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