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From Postfiction to Protofiction: Conspiracy Theory, Social Networks, and Confabulation
, 2011 The pursuit and critique of truth has often been considered a rather lofty affair, traditionally confined to religious, philosophical and scientific circles.
Bennett, T.
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Online communication as a window to conspiracist worldviews [PDF]
, 2015 In spite of the social stigma surrounding them, conspiracy theories are a common topic of public debate on the Internet. The content and tone of these discussions provide a useful insight into the structure of conspiracist belief systems and the ...
Michael James Wood +5 more
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How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place‐based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent.
Gerry Stoker +3 more
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
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Zmowa nauki. Strach przed technologią we współczesnych amerykańskich teoriach spiskowych
Er(r)go, 2014 Michał Różycki Conspiracy of Science. Technophobia in Contemporary American Conspiracy Theories The goal of the paper is to outline the notion of the fear of technology and mistrust of the scientific establishment present in 21st century American ...
Michał Różycki
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Cognitive reflection and the coronavirus conspiracy beliefs
, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us of how quickly conspiracy ideas can spread and how dire their consequences could be. One important question is what traits would predict susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs.
Negar Karimi +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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“John Birch Blues”: The Problematization of Conspiracy Theory in the Early Cold-War Era
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2014 This paper argues that the status of conspiracy theory changed from legitimate to illegitimate knowledge in the mid-20th century. By tracing the scientific, cultural, and political discourses of the early Cold-War era I show that World War II, the Red ...
Katharina Thalmann
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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