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Hauptseminar
WiSe 24/25: Uncentering Conspiracies
Jürgen Schaflechner
Kommentar
Casting light on the formation, seduction, and utilization of conspiratorial tropes.
Over the last decade, the study of “conspiracy theories” has seen renewed scholarly interest worldwide. Populist campaigns, the establishment of national authoritarian governments, and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to an atmosphere replete with conspiracies, fake news, and trolling. Notwithstanding its global relevance, mainly US-American and European case studies have, thus far, informed theoretical approaches to the topic. Examples from trans-local Global South have been widely absent from recent attempts to conceptualize what we actually mean when we speak of “conspiracy theories.” In this seminar, we aim to ameliorate this overemphasis by foregrounding the Global South as a critical region for theorizing the formation and usage of “conspiratorial” tropes. In doing so, this class seeks to not only give an introduction to the broad field of conspiracy theories but also ask what ethnographic fieldwork (a thus far rarely utilized method in the field) can contribute to such theorization. This class discounts the pathological structure of explaining conspiracy theories and aims to bridge in-depth ethnographical work amongst people utilizing, spreading, and believing in conspiratorial plots with macrostructural developments globally and in the Global South.
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