From the assassination of JFK in November 1963 to Watergate and the death of Diana, theories about conspiracies beset popular culture. Television programmes about mysteries and 'inexplicable' events command peak time viewing schedules, reinterpreting 'old' conspiracy theories with new evidence. This book differentiates between conspiracy theory and theories about conspiracies.
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Is this an age of conspiracies, or generalized anxiety and a search for hidden explanations? How can the social sciences understand and explain the contemporary popularity of conspiracy theories? This provocative and unique collection draws together academics from politics, media studies, anthropology, sociology, management and cultural studies to address a wide variety of topics related to conspiracy theory and practice. With chapters on computer viruses, the politics of the far right in France and militias in the USA, the X-Files, anti-corporate protest and more, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary culture.
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Jane Parish is an anthropologist in the School of Social Relations at Keele University, UK. Her main interest is in West African witchcraft, especially among the Akan, Ghana.
Martin Parker is Reader in Social and Organisation Theory in the Department of Management, Keele University. He has written and edited several books on culture, ethics and poststructuralism with particular reference to organisations.
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From the assassination of JFK in November 1963, through Watergate and Lockerbie, conspiracies beset popular culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conspiracy model, conspiracy culture, theocratic right, conspiracy thinking, conspiratorial thinking, popular eschatology, conspiracy narrative, primordial void, media conspiracy, political demonology, racist right, fantastic narratives, paranoid style, conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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From the assassination of JFK in November 1963, through Watergate and Lockerbie, conspiracies beset popular culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conspiracy model, conspiracy culture, theocratic right, conspiracy thinking, conspiratorial thinking, popular eschatology, conspiracy narrative, primordial void, media conspiracy, political demonology, racist right, fantastic narratives, paranoid style, conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Editorial Board of The Sociological Review, New York, The Guardian, Love Bug, United States, Alien Powers, Noam Chomsky, Blackwell Publishers, Christian Identity, John Birch Society, Cowley Road, Main Street, National Front, Christian Patriots, Peter Knight, Hong Kong, Pat Robertson, United Nations, Mark Fenster, Polity Press, Radio Antilles, Daniel Pipes, Fox Mulder, Homo Sacer, Jean-Marie Le Pen New!
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- No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein on 9 pages
- The New World Order by Pat Robertson on 6 pages
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics: And Other Essays by Richard Hofstadter on 5 pages
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) by Jean-Francois Lyotard on 4 pages
- The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden on 4 pages
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- Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order by Harry G. West in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens by Joseph Roisman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Against Management: Organization in the Age of Managerialism by Martin Parker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines (Sociological Review Monographs) by Bethan Benwell in Front Matter
- Utopia and Organization (Sociological Review Monographs) by Martin Parker in Front Matter
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