Europe: Continent of Conspiracies

<p>This edited volume investigates for the first time the impact of conspiracy theories upon the understanding of Europe as a geopolitical entity as well as an imagined political and cultural space.</p><p>Focusing on recent developments the individual chapters explore a range of conspiratorial positions related to Europe. In the current climate of fear and threat new and old imaginaries of conspiracies such as Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have been mobilised. A dystopian or even apocalyptic image of Europe in terminal decline is evoked in Eastern European and particularly by Russian pro-Kremlin media while the EU emerges as a screen upon which several narratives of conspiracy are projected trans-nationally ranging from the Greek debt crisis to migration Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The methodological perspectives applied in this volume range from qualitative discourse and media analysis to quantitative social-psychological approaches and there are a number of national and transnational case studies.<br> <br>This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of extremism conspiracy theories and European politics.</p>