Populism and Conspiracy Theory

Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-75482-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 734 g

Reihe: Conspiracy Theories

This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. Populism and Conspiracy Theory contributes to filling the gap in the research in this area. The individual contributions in Part I provide in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory. Part II includes nuanced considerations of more theoretical issues. The case studies cover both right-wing and left-wing manifestations of populism, while highlighting that populist movements often cut across the traditional left-right divide. Chapters focus on the twenty-first century and the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the impact of history and memory on contemporary discourses. Geographically, the case studies consider the Americas as well as Europe and Northern Africa. Theoretical discussions include the aesthetics and forms of populist conspiracism, or its dependence on new media. The disciplines represented in the volume range from political science and sociology via anthropology and history to linguistics and cultural studies.

It will appeal to those interested in politics, specifically conspiracy theory, populism, democracy, and leadership.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorandfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butter, Michael

Hatzikidi, Katerina

Jeitler, Constanze

Loperfido, Giacomo

Turza, Lili

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Volksglaube & Umstrittenes Wissen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Case Studies  1. Makers versus Getters: Productivism in Henry Ford’s The International Jew  2. Anticommunism and Conspiracy Myths in Brazil: From the 1937 “Cohen Plan” to the Bolsonarist “Red Menace”  3. The Weaponization of Conspiracy Theories  4. Populism and Conspiracism in Croatia and Their Articulations among Citizens from Left to Right  5. “We are the Olive Trees”—Conspiracism and Environmentalism in Southern Italy: The Case of Xylella Fastidiosa  6. Populism and Conspiracy Thinking in the Aufstehen-Movement  7. “The Invention of a Pandemic”—Conspiracist Argumentation in the German Alternative Newspaper Demokratischer Widerstand  8. Left-Wing Populist-Conspiracism: The Case of Tunisia  9. Conspiracy Theory and the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: A Left-Right Convergence?   10. Conspiratorial Tropes in Rodrigo Duterte’s Populistic Rhetoric  Part II: Theoretical Perspectives  11. Marxismo Cultural/Cultural Marxism: Transnational Conspiracy Theories and the Brazilian New Right  12. On the Elective Affinity between Post-Marxism, Left-Wing Populism, and Conspiracist World Views  13. A New Poetic of Conspiracism? Conspiracy Theory in a Time of Post-Narrative Politics  14. New Media’s Conspiratorial Affordances: An Ecology of Mind Approach  15. Haute Baroque Bling: Style, Taste, and Distinction in the Study of Conspiracist Populism  16. Studying Conspiracy Theory after the (Current) Rise of Right-Wing Populism

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Butter is a professor of American Studies at the University of Tübingen in Germany, co-editor of the Handbook of Conspiracy Theories (Routledge, 2020) and PI of the ERC-funded project “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory.”

Katerina Hatzikidi is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher for the “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” project.

Constanze Jeitler is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and part of the “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” research project.

Giacomo Loperfido is a social and political anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher for the “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” project.

Lili Turza is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and part of the “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” research project.