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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Conspiracies"”.
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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… that representations of secret societies and conspiracies occupied in literature in France in between the two World Wars, reappearing in various guises in works by authors across aesthetic and ideological traditions. My examination situates these literary representations within their political …
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Aliens, bodies and conspiracies: Regimes of truth in The X-files
The X-Files is a television program that first screened on Australian television in 1993. This thesis will investigate the role of The X-Files as a cultural text. The X-Files is a significant program, and has contributed to a shift in the way in which television texts represent ideas about society, …
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Trust in science is not the answer to conspiracies: It’s throwing water on a grease-fire
Conspiracy theories can be quite dangerous and have risen in prevalence. The rise of conspiracy theories has been met with an outcry to increase public trust in science. However, using trust in science to stop conspiracy theories may have unintended negative consequences. Trust in science entails …
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
… for disinformation. At the beginning there were conspiracies that COVID- 19 was engineered to prevent global population growth, and now on vaccine hesitancy, with some conspiracies pointing to embryos being used as an ingredient to the vaccines. In this paper, I aim to address the era of …
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“The Union of the South is the Safety of the South”: Conspiracy Theories, Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis in Virginia
… secessionists went so far as to launch their own conspiracies to overthrow the state government and seize federal military installations. This thesis seeks to understand how conspiracies in Virginia’s political discourse over secession helped carry the largest and most important slaveholding state …
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The World That Was : An investigation of lost cities, hidden empires, and their role in online pseudoarchaeological communities.
… as TikTok, fast increasing pseudoarchaeological conspiracies have spread across the western world. The legacy of these conspiracies, their uptake on social media, and their impact on heritage identity has largely been ignored amongst archaeologists and heritage professionals with exceptions being …
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
… in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the American public. Specifically, it focuses on the emergence of these films in the 1970s, their almost complete disappearance …
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Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
<p>QAnon and other far-right conspiracies are significant fixtures within contemporary American culture. Through a series of interviews with two highly engaged QAnon conspiracy theorists who are also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I analyzed QAnon as an epistemic …
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Dream Machine
… of a country starved of its spirituality, where conspiracies, hallucinations, and deathly apparitions seem to possess the same inherent logic as a blue sky.
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Political Conspiracy in Napoleonic France
… of primary source material indicates that the conspiracies hatched against Napoleon served as the impetus for his decision to change the government from the Consulate to the Empire. His ambitious personality drove him to achieve as much power and prestige for himself as possible, a point …
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Between a Rock and a Better Place
… grapple with Biblical plagues, health insurance conspiracies, and the undead, as well as addiction, forgiveness, and redemption. As a collection, <em>Between a Rock and a Better Place</em> explores absurd and satirical solutions to glaring issues of inequity in society, emphasizing the corruption …
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The Intellectual History Of Inter-war British Fascists
… according to the British fascists, was rife with conspiracies which threatened the established "order of things." Unfortunately, their fears of conspiracy were so fantastic that their rationale was at times clouded and to their detriment. Foremost in the thinking of British fascists, Britain …
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Conspiracy theories and political culture
… development and can be seen as an attempt to use conspiracies as a means of describing and critiquing aspects of the contemporary world.<br/><br/>It is intended that this research will show that conspiracy theories are more than the 'paranoid fantasies' of a minority on the fringes of political …
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Urban Governance and the Conduct of Civic Violence in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia, 1300 – 1500
… collective violence unfolded, whether as planned conspiracies or spontaneous riots. The first chapter discusses the legal structures and governing systems of towns in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia. The second chapter pays special attention to the management of guilds and laws affecting craftsmen’s …
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The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649-1660
… and military power: internally from Royalist conspiracies and political dissidence, and externally from the danger of a combined Royalist and foreign invasion. The Eastern Counties were of strategic importance to Interregnum governments because of their proximity to London and the Continent, …
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The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions
… From political falsehoods to health-related conspiracies, the pervasive spread of misleading information has far-reaching consequences. While much research on misinformation susceptibility has focused on cognitive factors - such as reasoning ability or analytical thinking - it often overlooks …
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A violent origin : a Girardian analysis of the scapegoating of Ali ibn Abu Talib in Shi'ite tradition
… this 'triangle' in personal relationships to conspiracies and subsequently to communities with regard to primitive religions. It was in the discovery of the sacred victim that Girard recognized the purpose of myth, that it concealed the role of the persecutors and that it silenced the victim. …
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State of distrust: interpreting 1970s Italy through the seriality of news media and the poliziottesco.
… the poliziottesco, which centres on state-driven conspiracies, this thesis argues that repetitions and innovations in the representation of Italian civic institutions can be linked to the evolution of news media discourses on the so-called strategia della tensione (strategy of tension). Thus, …
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