Description
Product ID: | 9780367500689 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Conspiracy Theories |
Title: | Europe: Continent of Conspiracies |
Subtitle: | Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe |
Authors: | Author: Andre Krouwel, Andreas Onnerfors |
Page Count: | 268 |
Subjects: | History, History, Archaeology, Media studies, Sociology, Politics and government, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Political structure and processes, Archaeology, Media studies, Sociology, Politics & government, Fascism & Nazism, Political structure & processes, 20th century |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This edited volume investigates for the first time the impact of conspiracy theories upon the understanding of Europe as a geo-political entity as well as an imagined political and cultural space. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-04-30 |