The Greek crisis in Europe : race class and politics This book critically analyses the publicity of the Greek debt crisis by studying Greek Danish and German mainstream media during the crisis early years (2009 2015). Mass media everywhere reproduced a sensualistic Greek crisis spectacle while iterating neoliberal and occidentalist ideological myths. Overall the Greek people were deemed guilty of a systemic crisis supposedly enjoying lavish lifestyles on the EUs expense. Using concrete examples the study foregrounds neoorientalist neoracist and classist stereotypes deployed in the construction and media coverage of the Greek crisis. These media practices are connected to the soft politics of the crisis which produce public consensus over neoliberal reforms such as austerity and privatizations and secure debt repayment from democratic interventions