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The Paradoxes and Mixed Record of Culture Wars in Contemporary Greece

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  • Sokratis Koniordos
  • Dimitris Sotiropoulos

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In this research report we analyze four recent culture wars in today’s Greece. These were wars over vaccination against Covid-19; challenges to Greek identity by the inflow of migrants and refugees; emerging non-conventional family relations and gender identities which have provoked reactions; and national identity challenges posed by Greece’s foreign relations, including the 2018 Prespes Agreement and EU-Greece relations. Our research was based on available sample surveys, official documents and four focus groups, one per culture war. We claim that cultural conflicts in contemporary Greece have not grown into all-consuming culture wars. They have remained at the level of soft conflicts or tensions. Despite voicing traditional views, Greeks adopt a pragmatist stance on cultural conflict. Moreover, in contemporary Greece such wars have started after initiatives primarily taken ‘from above’, i.e., by state authorities. In addition, from their outset culture wars in Greece have been interwoven with on-going, political party conflict.

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  • Sokratis Koniordos & Dimitris Sotiropoulos, 2023. "The Paradoxes and Mixed Record of Culture Wars in Contemporary Greece," GreeSE – Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe 182, Hellenic Observatory, LSE.
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    1. Roula Nezi & Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos & Panayiota Toka, 2010. "Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(1), pages 79-96.
    2. Antonis A. Ellinas, 2013. "The Rise of Golden Dawn: The New Face of the Far Right in Greece," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(4), pages 543-565, December.
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