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About Eleftheria Lekakis

Eleftheria Lekakis is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She holds degrees in Political Science (University of Crete) and Media and Communications (London School of Economics, Goldsmiths College). Eleftheria is the author of the forthcoming book Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North: Political Consumerism and Cultural Citizenship (Palgrave, September 2013) and a researcher of the communication of the intersections of politics and markets.

Articles by Eleftheria Lekakis

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En Liang Khong

En Liang Khong is openDemocracy’s assistant editor.

Constitutional conventions: best practice

The closure of ERT: public service broadcasting and austerity politics in Greece

On Tuesday, the Greek government announced the immediate closure of their public broadcaster, ERT. This simple piece of news from Greece came as a shock to the world. Yet this event is symptomatic of the relatonship between media and politics in today's world.

Greece, fascism and beyond

As a Greek, I am burdened by the recent developments in the southeasternmost corner of the European Union.

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