Transparency and Conspiracy

Transparency and Conspiracy
Title Transparency and Conspiracy PDF eBook
Author Harry G. West
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 329
Release 2003-04-17
Genre Social Science
ISBN 082238485X

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Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the “mutual veil dropping” of the post–Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet from the perspective of the relatively less privileged, the operation of power often appears opaque and unpredictable. Through vivid ethnographic analyses, Transparency and Conspiracy examines a vast range of expressions of the popular suspicion of power—including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legends—illuminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization. In this collection leading anthropologists reveal the variations and commonalities in conspiratorial thinking or occult cosmologies around the globe—in Korea, Tanzania, Mozambique, New York City, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, and Orange County, California. The contributors chronicle how people express profound suspicions of the United Nations, the state, political parties, police, courts, international financial institutions, banks, traders and shopkeepers, media, churches, intellectuals, and the wealthy. Rather than focusing on the veracity of these convictions, Transparency and Conspiracy investigates who believes what and why. It makes a compelling argument against the dismissal of conspiracy theories and occult cosmologies as antimodern, irrational oversimplifications, showing how these beliefs render the world more complex by calling attention to its contradictions and proposing alternative ways of understanding it. Contributors. Misty Bastian, Karen McCarthy Brown, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Susan Harding, Daniel Hellinger, Caroline Humphrey, Laurel Kendall, Todd Sanders, Albert Schrauwers, Kathleen Stewart, Harry G. West

Transparency and Conspiracy

Transparency and Conspiracy
Title Transparency and Conspiracy PDF eBook
Author Harry G. West
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 332
Release 2003-04-17
Genre Law
ISBN 9780822330240

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DIVEthnographies of alienated, often occult, responses to economic globalization./div

Paranoia Within Reason

Paranoia Within Reason
Title Paranoia Within Reason PDF eBook
Author George E. Marcus
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 462
Release 1999-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780226504582

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This text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of the changes that undermine them

Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas

Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Title Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas PDF eBook
Author Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 288
Release 2014
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1476726639

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A collection of controversial essays touches upon an array of issues, from marriage equality and conspiracy theories to animal rights.

The Transparent Conspiracy

The Transparent Conspiracy
Title The Transparent Conspiracy PDF eBook
Author Michael David Morrissey
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 2010-06-18
Genre
ISBN 9780557503292

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Essays and poems (mostly) on 9/11.

Conspiracy Theory in America

Conspiracy Theory in America
Title Conspiracy Theory in America PDF eBook
Author Lance deHaven-Smith
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 273
Release 2013-04-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0292743793

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Asserts that the Founders' hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today's blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition.

Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump

Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump
Title Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump PDF eBook
Author Daniel C. Hellinger
Publisher Springer
Pages 311
Release 2018-09-20
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3319981587

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This book focuses on the constant tension between democracy and conspiratorial behavior in the new global order. It addresses the prevalence of conspiracy theories in the phenomenon of Donald Trump and Trumpism, and the paranoid style of American politics that existed long before, first identified with Richard Hofstadter. Hellinger looks critically at both those who hold conspiracy theory beliefs and those who rush to dismiss them. Hellinger argues that we need to acknowledge that the exercise of power by elites is very often conspiratorial and invites both realistic and outlandish conspiracy theories. How we parse the realistic from the outlandish demands more attention than typically accorded in academia and journalism. Tensions between global hegemony and democratic legitimacy become visible in populist theories of conspiracy, both on the left and the right. He argues that we do not live in an age in which conspiracy theories are more profligate, but that we do live in an age in which they offer a more profound challenge to the constituted state than ever before.