Populism and Conspiracy Theory: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives

IntroductionMichael ButterPart I: Case Studies1. Makers versus Getters: Productivism in Henry Ford0́9s The International JewAdam John Koper 2. Anticommunism and Conspiracy Myths in Brazil: From the 1937 0́−Cohen Plan0́+ to the Bolsonarist 0́−Red Menace0́+Rodrigo Patto S©Ł Motta3. The Weaponization of Conspiracy TheoriesEirikur Bergmann4. Populism and Conspiracism in Croatia and Their Articulations among Citizens from Left to RightNeboj¿Ła Blanu¿Ła 5. 0́−We are the Olive Trees0́+0́4Conspiracism and Environmentalism in Southern Italy: The Case of Xylella FastidiosaGiovanna Parmigiani 6. Populism and Conspiracy Thinking in the Aufstehen-MovementLeo Roepert 7. 0́−The Invention of a Pandemic0́+0́4Conspiracist Argumentation in the German Alternative Newspaper Demokratischer WiderstandNina Pilz 8. Left-Wing Populist Conspiracism: The Case of TunisiaTarek Kahlaoui9. Conspiracy Theory and the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: A Left-Right Convergence?Helen Murphey10. Conspiratorial Tropes in Rodrigo Duterte0́9s Populistic RhetoricFranciszek Czech Part II: Theoretical Perspectives11. Marxismo Cultural/Cultural Marxism: Transnational Conspiracy Theories and the Brazilian New RightAndrew Woods 12. On the Elective Affinity between Post-Marxism, Left-Wing Populism, and Conspiracist World Views Helge Petersen and Hannah Hecker 13. A New Poetic of Conspiracism? Conspiracy Theory in a Time of Post-Narrative PoliticsSebastian M. Herrmann14. New Media0́9s Conspiratorial Affordances: An Ecology of Mind ApproachLet©Ưcia Cesarino15. Haute Baroque Bling: Style, Taste, and Distinction in the Study of Conspiracist PopulismClare Birchall 16. Studying Conspiracy Theory after the (Current) Rise of Right-Wing PopulismMark Fenster.