Europe: Continent of Conspiracies: Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367500672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 282 str.

Andreas Önnerfors; Andr Krouwel

Opis

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

Spis treści

1. Between Internal Enemies and External Threats: How Conspiracy Theories have Shaped Europe – An Introduction  2. The New European Order: Euroscepticism and Conspiracy-Belief  3. The Eurabia Conspiracy Theory  4. Metaphors of Invasion: Imagining Europe as Endangered by Islamization  5. ‘Der Grosse Austausch’: Conspiratorial Frames of Terrorist Violence in Germany  6. Denying the Geopolitical Reality: The Case of the German ‘Reich Citizens’  7. The Fourth Reich in Europe: Conspiracy Theories about Germany in the Greek Press During the Economic Crisis  8. Populist Conspiracy Rhetoric and Arguments on EU Immigration: An Exploratory Analysis of pro-Brexit Newspapers  9. The Eternal George Soros: Rise of an Antisemitic and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theory  10. EU-related Conspiracy Theories in the Western Balkans: Gravitating Between Rejecting and Embracing Europe through Eurovilification and Eurofundamentalism  11. The Brussels Conspiracy: Narratives of EU-related Conspiracy Theories in pro-Kremlin Media  12. Culture of Fear: The Decline of Europe in Russian Political Imagination  13. Unlocking the ‘Black Box’ of Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe