Updated throughout and now featuring examples from the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2021 Capitol Hill riots, this new edition of The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories shows us that while such beliefs are not always irrational and are not a pathological...Loe edasi...
This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the Q account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the mo...Loe edasi...
This book provides an empirical analysis, mapping, and assessment of Canadian right-wing extremist (RWE) groups and their conspiracy theories....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the discursive weaponization of conspiracy theories. This text examines the interplay between populism and conspiracism, probing their impact on democratic processes and exploring their broader political implications....Loe edasi...
Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatizati...Loe edasi...
The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism....Loe edasi...
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs....Loe edasi...
Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination uses the tools of critical thinking, historical research, and philosophical inquiry to debunk the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding JFKs shocking and untimely death....Loe edasi...
The Russian international media outlet Russia Today (RT) has been widely accused in the Western world of producing government propaganda and conspiracy theories. This book explores for the first time what role conspiracy theories actually play in th...Loe edasi...
Critical theory has developed tools able to conceive truth beyond knowledge and power, and hence to make sense of conspiracy theories. This book will try to organize them into a toolbox, which will enable students and researchers to analyze conspira...Loe edasi...
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience....Loe edasi...
In this ethnographic study, the author takes an agnostic stance towards the truth value of conspiracy theories and delves into the everyday lives of people active in the conspiracy milieu to understand better what the contemporary appeal of conspira...Loe edasi...
Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life....Loe edasi...
This book provides an overview of the discourses of Turkish conspiracy theorists and examines how these theorists argue for and legitimize their worldview. The author discusses a broad range of conspiracy theories including some influenced by Kemali...Loe edasi...
This ground-breaking study challenges some of the widely shared assessments in the scholarship about a perceived mainstreaming of conspiracy theory. Providing an in-depth analysis of academic and media discourses, Katharina Thalmann is the first sch...Loe edasi...
This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous, secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics....Loe edasi...
Contemporary social psychology helps us to understand the human motivation to create, share and receive conspiracy theories, and the implications of these shared beliefs. The Psychology of Conspiracy provides readers with a broad and unique social-p...Loe edasi...
Conspiracism, while not unique to the Middle East, is a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. This book discounts the common pathological explanation for conspiricism and instead investigates the political structures and dynamic...Loe edasi...
