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      Europe: Continent of Conspiracies
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      Europe: Continent of Conspiracies

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      Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe

      Europe: Continent of Conspiracies

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      Europe: Continent of Conspiracies book

      Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe
      ByAndreas Önnerfors, André Krouwel
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 30 April 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003048640
      Pages 282
      eBook ISBN 9781003048640
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Önnerfors, A., & Krouwel, A. (2021). Europe: Continent of Conspiracies: Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003048640

      ABSTRACT

      This edited volume investigates for the first time the impact of conspiracy theories upon the understanding of Europe as a geopolitical entity as well as an imagined political and cultural space.

      Focusing on recent developments, the individual chapters explore a range of conspiratorial positions related to Europe. In the current climate of fear and threat, new and old imaginaries of conspiracies such as Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have been mobilised. A dystopian or even apocalyptic image of Europe in terminal decline is evoked in Eastern European and particularly by Russian pro-Kremlin media, while the EU emerges as a screen upon which several narratives of conspiracy are projected trans-nationally, ranging from the Greek debt crisis to migration, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The methodological perspectives applied in this volume range from qualitative discourse and media analysis to quantitative social-psychological approaches, and there are a number of national and transnational case studies.
       
      This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of extremism, conspiracy theories and European politics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|21 pages

      Between internal enemies and external threats

      How conspiracy theories have shaped Europe – an introduction
      ByAndreas Önnerfors, André Krouwel

      chapter 2|14 pages

      The New European Order? Euroscepticism and conspiracy belief

      ByAndré Krouwel, Jan Willem van Prooijen

      chapter 3|18 pages

      The Eurabia conspiracy theory

      ByEirikur Bergmann

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Metaphors of invasion

      Imagining Europe as endangered by Islamisation
      ByEstrella Gualda

      chapter 5|21 pages

      Der Grosse Austausch

      Conspiratorial frames of terrorist violence in Germany
      ByAndreas Önnerfors

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Denying the geopolitical reality

      The case of the German ‘Reich Citizens’
      ByFlorian Buchmayr

      chapter 7|21 pages

      The Fourth Reich in Europe

      Conspiracy theories about Germany in the Greek press during the economic crisis
      ByAlexianna Tsotsou

      chapter 8|25 pages

      Populist conspiracy rhetoric and arguments on EU immigration

      An exploratory analysis of pro-Brexit newspapers
      ByIrina Diana Mădroane

      chapter 9|22 pages

      The eternal George Soros

      The rise of an antisemitic and Islamophobic conspiracy theory
      ByArmin Langer

      chapter 10|29 pages

      EU-related conspiracy theories in the Western Balkans

      Gravitating between rejecting and embracing Europe through Eurovilification and Eurofundamentalism
      ByBlanuša Nebojša, Denkovski Ognjan, Fidanovski Kristijan, Gjoneska Biljana

      chapter 11|17 pages

      The Brussels conspiracy

      Narratives of EU-related conspiracy theories in pro-Kremlin Media
      ByJakov Bojovic

      chapter 12|22 pages

      A culture of fear

      The decline of Europe in Russian political imagination
      ByHolger Mölder

      chapter 13|12 pages

      Unlocking the ‘black box’ of conspiracy theories in and about Europe

      ByAndreas Önnerfors, André Krouwel
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