One feature of post-pandemic politics is controversy over “conspiracy theory”. What makes a theory a conspiracy theory? Why are they so popular? Who deploys the phrase and to what end? Providing an accessible tour through the social science of power and ideology, Lagalisse and Drążkiewicz offer a mini-series on “conspiracy theory” as a form of social critique that indexes broad mistrust in institutions and the state, and why scholars of the Global North treat paranoia about corruption differe...
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One feature of post-pandemic politics is controversy over “conspiracy theory”. What makes a theory a conspiracy theory? Why are they so popular? Who deploys the phrase and to what end? Providing an accessible tour through the social science of power and ideology, Lagalisse and Drążkiewicz offer a mini-series on “conspiracy theory” as a form of social critique that indexes broad mistrust in institutions and the state, and why scholars of the Global North treat paranoia about corruption differe...
Conspiracy Theory, Modernity and Class Respectability
Politics After The Pandemic
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Conspiracy Theory, Modernity and Class Respectability
One feature of post-pandemic politics is controversy over “conspiracy theory”. What makes a theory a conspiracy theory? Why are they so popular? Who deploys the phrase and to what end? Providing an accessible tour through the social science of power and ideology, Lagalisse and Drążkiewicz offer a mini-series on “conspiracy theory” as a form of social critique that indexes broad mistrust in institutions and the state, and why scholars of the Global North treat paranoia about corruption differe...
Politics After The Pandemic
One feature of post-pandemic politics is controversy over “conspiracy theory”. What makes a theory a conspiracy theory? Why are they so popular? Who deploys the phrase and to what end? Providing an accessible tour through the social science of power and ideology, Lagalisse and Drążkiewicz offer a mini-series on “conspiracy theory” as a form of social critique that indexes broad mistrust in institutions and the state, and why scholars of the Global North treat paranoia about corruption differe...
