Conspiracy Theory

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Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

In evaluating radical-right grand conspiracy theories, I confess to originally qualifying as an industrial chemist and declare my position as a skeptic in the tradition of the ‘father of chemistry’,…

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How COVID and Syria Conspiracy Theories Introduce Fascism to the Left Part 3: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum

Part 1 of this series outlined the key concepts and context surrounding red-brownism and looked at some examples of its right-leaning incantations. Part 2 dove into the chaotic world of…

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5 min

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Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Pseudoconservatism and QAnon

In his latest piece on Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality, CARR Doctoral Fellow, Andrew Woods, unpacks Adorno’s definition of pseudoconservatism and determines whether we can use this concept to understand those who follow…

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5 min

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QAnon has gone from fringe conspiracy to full-blown cult

On 12 August, Donald Trump endorsed a congressional candidate from Georgia, the victor in a Republican primary runoff held the previous day. Like an alarmingly increasing number of congressional hopefuls…

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5 min

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Alternative epistemologies of the radical right: how grand narratives and the quest for truth offer recognition and a sense of belonging

In early 2019, during ethnographic fieldwork on radical right movements in Australia, I attended a far-right rally against allegedly “African gang crimes” in Melbourne. I spoke to a young man…

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7 min

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I Predict a Riot: An Analysis of White Supremacist Propaganda in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder

The murder of George Floyd has sparked increasingly violent protests across the United States in an outpouring of fury and frustration, and an eruption of long simmering racial tensions. An…

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COVID-19 has exposed the odd conspiracy links between left and right

The COVID-19 conspiratorial cesspool is populated by both right-wing extremists and parts of the liberal left that views itself as woke, progressive and definitely anti-racist. In his recent article on openDemocracy,…

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‘The Plan’: Analysing the QAnon conspiracy theory on 8kun

The QAnon conspiracy theory is part of a larger esoteric belief system known as the ‘Great Awakening’. The enclosed map reveals the depth and breadth of this pseudo-religious belief system.…

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Off the Hook: How the HIJACKED LABOUR Conspiracy Theory Defends the Radical Right

On December 7th 2019, Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of The Sun, published an editorial that promoted the conspiracy theories of the HIJACKED LABOUR (HL) project. Dunn praised the former…

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The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

More than 25 years have passed since the tragedy, yet a web of conspiracy theories that has been spun around the disaster has fueled the Swedish radical right’s imagination. On…

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Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

How COVID and Syria Conspiracy Theories Introduce Fascism to the Left Part 3: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum

Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Pseudoconservatism and QAnon

QAnon has gone from fringe conspiracy to full-blown cult

Alternative epistemologies of the radical right: how grand narratives and the quest for truth offer recognition and a sense of belonging

I Predict a Riot: An Analysis of White Supremacist Propaganda in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder

COVID-19 has exposed the odd conspiracy links between left and right

‘The Plan’: Analysing the QAnon conspiracy theory on 8kun

Off the Hook: How the HIJACKED LABOUR Conspiracy Theory Defends the Radical Right

The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

Right Rising Podcast (Season One, Episode Eight): Women and Gender in the Extreme Right

Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy

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