Contemporary conspiracy culture : truth and knowledge in an era of epistemic instability / Jaron Harambam.
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Harambam, Jaron (författare)
- ISBN 9780429327605
- Publicerad: Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2020
- Engelska PDF (viii, 243 pages)
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Serie: Conspiracy theories
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- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Conspiracy theories everywhere? -- 1.2 Academics on conspiracy theories: stigmatization and normalization -- 1.3 A cultural sociological approach: meaning, diversity and relationality -- 1.4 Outline of the book -- 2. Methodology: Studying the Dutch conspiracy milieu -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The field -- 2.3 The sources -- 2.4 The analyses -- 3. Contemporary conspiracy discourses: How a power elite controls the world -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Conspiracy theories today -- 3.3 Conclusion: modern conspiracy theories or postmodern paranoia? -- 4. From the unbelievable to the undeniable: Epistemological pluralism, or how David Icke supports his super-conspiracy theory -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Claiming epistemic authority -- 4.3 Method, data, analysis -- 4.4 “The day that will change your life”: David Icke in Amsterdam -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. Breaking out of the Matrix: How people explain their biographical turn to conspiracy theories -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Biographies in context: on the fundamental connectedness of individual lives and societal developments -- 5.3 Beyond the social logic of awakenings: turning to the richness of life stories -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. “I am not a conspiracy theorist” -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Identification: similarity and difference -- 6.3 Re-claiming rationality: “I am not a conspiracy theorist” -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7. Contesting epistemic authority: Conspiracy theorists on the boundaries of science -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Science and its boundaries -- 7.3 Boundary work: construing conspiracy theories as modernity’s dark counterpart -- 7.4 Challenging the epistemic authority of science: an attack on its public image -- 7.5 Conclusion: science wars democratized -- 8. Conclusion -- 8.1 Contested institutions: facing corruption, desiring purification -- 8.2 Contested knowledge: popular incredulity towards objective truth claims -- 8.3 Hermeneutics of suspicion: “Nothing is what it seems” -- 8.4 Conspiracy culture: living in an age of epistemic instability -- 9. Epilogue: Whose side am I on? -- 9.1 The myth of the neutral sociologist -- 9.2 Scene 1 -- 9.3 Scene 2 -- 9.4 Scene 3 -- 9.5 Conclusion: taking a stance without taking sides -- Index.
- "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 conspiracy theories is. Conspiracy theories have become popular cultural products, endorsed and shared by significant segments of western societies. Yet our understanding of who these people are and why they are attracted by these alternative explanations of reality is hampered by their implicit and explicit pathologization. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical sources, this book shows in rich detail what conspiracy theories are about, which people are involved, how they see themselves, and what they practically do with these ideas in their everyday lives. The author inductively develops from these concrete descriptions more general theorizations of how to understand this burgeoning subculture. He concludes by situating conspiracy culture in an age of epistemic instability where societal conflicts over knowledge abound, and the Truth is no longer assured, but "out there" for us to grapple with. This book will be an important source for students and scholars from a range of disciplines interested in the depth and complexity of conspiracy culture, including Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, Ethnology, Folklore Studies, History, Media Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. More broadly, this study speaks to contemporary (public) debates about truth and knowledge in a supposedly post-truth era, including widespread popular distrusts towards elites, mainstream institutions and their knowledge"--
Ämnesord
- Conspiracy theories -- Social aspects. (LCSH)
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects. (LCSH)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory (bisacsh)
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects. (fast)
- Konspirationsteorier -- sociala aspekter (sao)
- Lögn -- sociala aspekter (sao)
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- HV6275 (LCC)
- 001.9 (DDC)
- Bl (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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