The Long Shadow of Golden Dawn

​Emerging from the turmoil of Greece’s financial crisis, Golden Dawn transformed anger over austerity, migration and political disillusionment into an authoritarian politics built around violence.

​In his new book, The Long Shadow of Golden Dawn: Violence, Memory, and the Afterlife of the Greek Far Right, Dr Georgios Samaras draws on analysis of the movement’s digital propaganda and interviews with its voters to trace how resentment and fear became political identities and led to collective action.

​Join the School for Government and the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's, alongside the LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus – Hellenic Observatory for the launch of the book to discuss how one of Europe’s most notorious neo-Nazi movements moved from the political margins into parliament, and what remained after its electoral collapse and criminal conviction.

​Speakers

• ​Dr Georgios Samaras, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Public Policy at the School for Government, King’s College London

• ​Helena Smith, Guardian correspondent in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus

• ​Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou, Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London

• ​Dr Aaron Winter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University

• ​Dr Marianna Griffini, Assistant Professor in International Relations and Anthropology at Northeastern University London