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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Conspiracy"”.
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Witnessing Conspiracy Theories: Developing an Intersectional Approach to Conspiracy Theory Research
… proposes an intersectional approach to conspiracy theory research that engages conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists by considering their proximity and affiliations with hegemonic power structures. Against challenges to conspiracy theories based on their lack of empirical …
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The Conspiracy of Catiline
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It's a Conspiracy: Motivated Reasoning and Conspiracy Ideation in the Rejection of Climate Change
… media influence in print and television, conspiracy ideation as a predictor of science rejection, and the role of the social construction of scientific knowledge in science rejection. Using these previously studied justifications for climate change rejection as a starting point, this …
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Conspiracy theories and political culture
This research is into the role of conspiracy theories in political culture. It is an investigation into the various aspects of political belief reflected in conspiracy theories. To research the topic a broadly Foucauldian approach is taken. The 'paranoid style' developed by American political …
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Political Conspiracy in Napoleonic France
An in-depth analysis 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 …
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Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature
… different authors: Livy's account of the Bacchic conspiracy (39.8--19), the conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso in Tacitus' Annales (15.48--74), and Cicero's Catilinarians. All three stories have a similar pattern to their telling, and I argue that these similarities are in part the result of structural …
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Conspiracy, Controversy, and the Classroom: Exploring the Prevalence and Significance of Conspiracy Theories among Youth Cultures in London
… in terms of investigating the impact of conspiracy theories on youth cultures, as well as gaps in the literature on teaching controversial issues in relation to conspiracy theories. By conducting a philosophically grounded qualitative study on two school sites with very different …
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The social psychological consequences of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories point accusing fingers at authorities, and offer alternatives to official explanations. Scholars have argued that in doing so, they may therefore subvert social systems and undermine confidence in established political, health and environmental positions. In this thesis we …
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The Plan of San Diego: A Border Conspiracy
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Decoding belief: neural mechanisms of conspiracy message evaluation
Conspiracy theories present emotionally salient and socially consequential information that may influence credibility evaluation, particularly in online environments where social cues are prevalent. Although behavioral predictors of conspiracy belief have been widely studied, little is known about …
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Figures and movements in seventeenth century conspiracy plays
"This dissertation addresses the problem of the French aristocracy's definition of Self at a precarious moment in its history--a moment in which the aristocracy finds itself confronted with a rising absolutism ""from above"" while having to grapple with an epistemology in full transformation ""from …
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Conspiracy in Balzac and Sand's July Monarchy Fiction
This thesis explores the representation of conspiracy in the literature of the July Monarchy (1830–1848) and its engagement with conspiracy thinking, with particular reference to the work of Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and George Sand (1804–1876). In providing the first sustained scholarly …
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Conspiracy, exile, & resistance : planning & narrative in Chelsea, Massachusetts
… of the conflict at hand: *the trope of conspiracy (causality and motive), *the trope of exile (invisibility and exclusion), and *the trope of resistance (authority and defiance). The three tropes correspond to aspects of power relationships: the concerted and motivated use of power, …
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Conspiratoria - the Internet and the Logic of Conspiracy Theory
… of the relationships between the logic of conspiracy theory and the Internet. It argues that the Internet can be conceptualised as a technocultural space conducive to the development of conspiracy belief and practice. Critical discourses regarding the relationships between mainstream media …
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
This thesis is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema 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 …
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Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
… 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 formation characterized by critique of social conditions, modern standards of rigor in research, and a highly accelerated …
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Grassy Knoll-Edges: Conspiracy Theories and Political Rationality in the 1990s
… dissertation studies the recent proliferation of conspiracy theories in the United States and the attending ways official analyses have assessed them as a political problem. First, I examine the common representations of conspiracy theories by prominent cultural texts and institutions. Mainstream …
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