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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.
This book explores the relevance of conspiracy theories in the
modern social and political history of the Nordic countries. The
Nordic countries have traditionally imagined themselves as stable,
wealthy, egalitarian welfare states. Conspiracy theories, mistrust
and disunity, the argument goes, happened elsewhere in Europe
(especially Eastern Europe), the Middle East or in the United
States. This book paints a different picture by demonstrating that
conspiracy theories have always existed in the Nordic region, both
as a result of structural tensions between different groups and in
the aftermath of traumatic events, but seem to have become more
prominent over the last 30 or 40 years. While the book covers
events and developments in each of the Nordic countries (Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland), it is not a comparative
country analysis. Rather, the book focuses on conspiracy theories
in and about the Nordic region as a region, arguing that
similarities in the trajectories of conspiratorial thinking are
interesting to examine in cultural, social, and political terms.
The book takes a thematic approach, including looking at states and
elites; family, gender and sexuality; migration and the outside
view on the Nordic region; conspiracy theories about the Nordic
countries; and Nordic noir. This book will be of great interest to
researchers on extremism, conspiracy theories and the politics of
the Nordic countries.
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.
This book explores the relevance of conspiracy theories in the
modern social and political history of the Nordic countries. The
Nordic countries have traditionally imagined themselves as stable,
wealthy, egalitarian welfare states. Conspiracy theories, mistrust
and disunity, the argument goes, happened elsewhere in Europe
(especially Eastern Europe), the Middle East or in the United
States. This book paints a different picture by demonstrating that
conspiracy theories have always existed in the Nordic region, both
as a result of structural tensions between different groups and in
the aftermath of traumatic events, but seem to have become more
prominent over the last 30 or 40 years. While the book covers
events and developments in each of the Nordic countries (Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland), it is not a comparative
country analysis. Rather, the book focuses on conspiracy theories
in and about the Nordic region as a region, arguing that
similarities in the trajectories of conspiratorial thinking are
interesting to examine in cultural, social, and political terms.
The book takes a thematic approach, including looking at states and
elites; family, gender and sexuality; migration and the outside
view on the Nordic region; conspiracy theories about the Nordic
countries; and Nordic noir. This book will be of great interest to
researchers on extremism, conspiracy theories and the politics of
the Nordic countries.
This edited collection considers whether it is possible to discern
how the level of ideology is affected by radicalization. In other
words: what happens in the minds of people before they decide to
use political violence as means to attain their goals? Also this
book asks: what has to happen in the minds of people in order to
preclude them from using political violence as a way of attaining
their goals? This volume unites scholars from several disciplines
and perspectives from a number of different geographical, social
and cultural contexts with the overarching aim to refine our
understanding of what 'radicalization' actually implies.
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