Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East : : A Comparative Approach /

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East : : A Comparative Approach / / ed. by Michael Butter, Maurus Reinkowski.

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Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Butter, Michael,
Christ, Birte,
De Poli, Barbara,
Dunst, Alexander,
Fathi, Schirin,
Fenster, Mark,
Gray, Matthew,
Herbert, Christopher,
Herrmann, Sebastian M.,
Herzog, Christoph,
Johnsrud, Brian,
Knight, Peter,
McKenzie-McHarg, Andrew,
Nefes, Türkay Salim,
Rabo, Annika,
Reinkowski, Maurus,
Schmid, Stephan,
Sleiman, André G.,
Winter, Aaron,
HerausgeberIn:
Butter, Michael,
Reinkowski, Maurus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Mapping Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East
  • I. The United States and the Middle East
  • My Enemies Must Be Friends: The American Extreme-Right, Conspiracy Theory, Islam, and the Middle East
  • From Mosaddeq to HAARP: Some Aspects of the Conspiratorial Component of U.S.-Iranian Relations
  • “Zionising” the Middle East: Rumours of the “Kissinger Plan” in Lebanon, 1973–1982
  • The Da Vinci Code, Crusade Conspiracies, and the Clash of Historiographies
  • II. The Politics of Conspiracy Theory
  • The Society of Death and Anglo-American Fears of Conspiracy in Gold Rush California, 1849–1858
  • The Function of Secrecy in Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories: The Case of Dönmes in Turkey
  • Hizbullah between Pan-Islamic Ideology and Domestic Politics: Conspiracy Theories as Medium for Political Mobilization and Integration
  • III. The Promises of Conspiracy Theory
  • Narrating the ‘Crisis of Representation’: The Cultural Work of Conspiracy in Larry Beinhart’s Novels on the Bush Presidencies
  • Small and Large Scale Conspiracy Theories and Their Problems: An Example from Turkey
  • “It Has All Been Planned”: Talking about Us and Powerful Others in Contemporary Syria
  • IV. Travelling Theories
  • The Transfer of Anti-Illuminati Conspiracy Theories to the United States in the Late Eighteenth Century
  • The Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy: The Path from the Cemetery of Prague to Arab Anti-Zionist Propaganda
  • Western Theories about Conspiracy Theories and the Middle Eastern Context: The Scope and Limits of Explanatory Transpositions
  • V. Theorizing Conspiracy Theory
  • The Politics of Conspiracy Theories: American Histories and Global Narratives
  • “What kind of man are you?”: The Gendered Foundations of U.S. Conspiracism and of Recent Conspiracy Theory Scholarship
  • Against the Cure
  • Plotting Future Directions in Conspiracy Theory Research
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors

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