Populism and Conspiracy Theory : Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives / edited by Michael Butter, Katerina Hatzikidi, Constanze Jeitler, Giacomo Loperfido, and Lili Turza.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Case Studies -- 1 Makers versus Getters: Productivism in Henry Ford's The International Jew -- 2 Anticommunism and Conspiracy Myths in Brazil: From the 1937 "Cohen Plan" to the Bolsonarist "Red Menace" -- 3 The Weaponization of Conspiracy Theories -- 4 Populism and Conspiracism in Croatia and Their Articulations among Citizens from Left to Right -- 5 "We Are the Olive Trees"-Conspiracism and Environmentalism in Southern Italy: The Case of Xylella Fastidiosa -- 6 Populism and Conspiracy Thinking in the Aufstehen-Movement -- 7 "The Invention of a Pandemic"-Conspiracist Argumentation in the German Alternative Newspaper Demokratischer Widerstand -- 8 Left-Wing Populist Conspiracism: The Case of Tunisia -- 9 Conspiracy Theory and the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: A Left-Right Convergence? -- 10 Conspiracist Tropes in Rodrigo Duterte's Populistic Rhetoric -- Part II: Theoretical Perspectives -- 11 Marxismo Cultural/Cultural Marxism: Transnational Conspiracy Theories and the Brazilian New Right -- 12 On the Elective Affinity between Post-Marxism, Left-Wing Populism, and Conspiracist Worldviews -- 13 A New Poetic of Conspiracism? Conspiracy Theory in a Time of Post-Narrative Politics -- 14 New Media's Conspiratorial Affordances: An Ecology of Mind Approach -- 15 Haute Baroque Bling: Style, Taste, and Distinction in the Study of Populist Conspiracism -- 16 Studying Conspiracy Theory after the (Current) Rise of Right-Wing Populism -- Index.

This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. It contributes to filling the gap in the research by providing in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory, and nuanced considerations of more theoretical issues.

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