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Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Italy: Cultural Production and Political Uses

Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Italy: Cultural Production and Political Uses

Hardcover

Series: Conspiracy Theories

SpeculationGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032703601
ISBN13: 9781032703602
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 25 2024
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume explores the role played by conspiracy narratives in the contemporary Italian political, cultural, and social context, through a series of case studies.

It begins with a historical and genealogical account of the troubled success of Italian conspiracy thinking from the early 1970s to the present day. Among the issues examined are the unclear division between legitimate/illegitimate forms of knowledge, the use of conspiracy as a confrontational discursive device, the emergence of moral panic, and the stabilization of information outlets against dominant official explanations. The analysis covers the case of a well-known national survey, and a digital platform specializing in conspiracy storytelling. The second axis of the book concerns the pervasive use of conspiracy as a theory or narrative that currently circulates in various Italian cultural fields: multiculturalism, immigration, and racism; Catholic traditionalism; football fandom; small business economics; and cooking and food.

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