American Conspiracism

This important collection explores the social effects of popular American conspiratorial beliefs, featuring the work of 22 scholars representing multiple academic disciplines.

Autorentext

Luke Ritter, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Political Science, New Mexico Highlands University, USA. He is the author of Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum West (2021).

Inhalt

1. Reflections on the Collection Part One: Knowledge 2. The Epistemology of QAnon 3. The Devil in the Details: The Memory Wars, Trauma Studies, and the Satanic Panic 4. Viral Belief: The Psychology of COVID Conspiracy Theories 5. True Conspiracies: The Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Earl Ray Part Two: Function 6. Interpersonal Relationships and Online Social Support in the QAnon Age 7. Social Vigilantism and American Conspiratorial Beliefs 8. Taking Conspiracies to Extremes: How Extremist Groups Use Conspiracy Narratives to Stoke Violence 9. Good Conspiracism Part Three: Nation 10. Nativism and the Roman Catholic Plot to Destroy America 11. Ku Klux Konspiracism in the 1920s 12. Constitutional Conspiracism: Aryans, Alpha Chads, and White Nationalists 13. Of Borders and Disorders: The U.S.-Mexico Border in the Trump Era Part Four: Meaning 14. Grievance Tales: On the Affective Resonance of Crazy Beliefs 15. American Flat Earth Belief 16. Long Live the King: Reviving an American Icarus