Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g
Reihe: Conspiracy Theories
Continent of Conspiracies: Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe
Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g
Reihe: Conspiracy Theories
ISBN: 978-0-367-50068-9
Verlag: Routledge
This edited volume investigates for the first time the impact of conspiracy theories upon the understanding of Europe as a geopolitical entity as well as an imagined political and cultural space.
Focusing on recent developments, the individual chapters explore a range of conspiratorial positions related to Europe. In the current climate of fear and threat, new and old imaginaries of conspiracies such as Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have been mobilised. A dystopian or even apocalyptic image of Europe in terminal decline is evoked in Eastern European and particularly by Russian pro-Kremlin media, while the EU emerges as a screen upon which several narratives of conspiracy are projected trans-nationally, ranging from the Greek debt crisis to migration, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The methodological perspectives applied in this volume range from qualitative discourse and media analysis to quantitative social-psychological approaches, and there are a number of national and transnational case studies.
This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of extremism, conspiracy theories and European politics.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Between Internal Enemies and External Threats: How Conspiracy Theories have Shaped Europe – An Introduction 2. The New European Order: Euroscepticism and Conspiracy-Belief 3. The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory 4. Metaphors of Invasion: Imagining Europe as Endangered by Islamization 5. ‘Der Grosse Austausch’: Conspiratorial Frames of Terrorist Violence in Germany 6. Denying the Geopolitical Reality: The Case of the German ‘Reich Citizens’ 7. The Fourth Reich in Europe: Conspiracy Theories about Germany in the Greek Press During the Economic Crisis 8. Populist Conspiracy Rhetoric and Arguments on EU Immigration: An Exploratory Analysis of pro-Brexit Newspapers 9. The Eternal George Soros: Rise of an Antisemitic and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theory 10. EU-related Conspiracy Theories in the Western Balkans: Gravitating Between Rejecting and Embracing Europe through Eurovilification and Eurofundamentalism 11. The Brussels Conspiracy: Narratives of EU-related Conspiracy Theories in pro-Kremlin Media 12. Culture of Fear: The Decline of Europe in Russian Political Imagination 13. Unlocking the ‘Black Box’ of Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe