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

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.

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.

Real Enemies

Real Enemies
Title Real Enemies PDF eBook
Author Kathryn S. Olmsted
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 335
Release 2009-01-02
Genre History
ISBN 019972024X

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Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted shows that it was only in the twentieth century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to American politics. In particular, she posits World War I as a critical turning point and shows that as the federal bureaucracy expanded, Americans grew more fearful of the government itself--the military, the intelligence community, and even the President. Analyzing the wide-spread suspicions surrounding such events as Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, Watergate, and 9/11, Olmsted sheds light on why so many Americans believe that their government conspires against them, why more people believe these theories over time, and how real conspiracies--such as the infamous Northwoods plan--have fueled our paranoia about the governments we ourselves elect.

Making Healthcare Safe

Making Healthcare Safe
Title Making Healthcare Safe PDF eBook
Author Lucian L. Leape
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 450
Release 2021-05-28
Genre Medical
ISBN 3030711234

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This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.