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Author Astapova, Anastasiya

Title Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (135 p.)
Series Conspiracy Theories Ser
Conspiracy Theories Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1 Conspiracy theories and the Nordic countries -- What is a conspiracy theory? -- The Nordics -- a snapshot of a region -- Conspiracy theories in the Nordics -- by the numbers -- Structure of the book -- Note -- 2 The state and secret elites in the Nordic countries -- Secret societies -- Was Breivik a tool of a 'Jewish-Masonic' conspiracy? -- Theories of trauma -- Palme and the MS Estonia -- Another kind of trauma: 9/11 Truth and the war on terror -- The press and the public
Meaning and impact -- 3 Family, gender, and sexuality -- Family reforms to save the family -- Conspiracy rumours about ritual murder and cannibalism in the nineteenth century -- Family, gender, and the state 1900-1940 -- Family and sexuality in Nordic Nazi conspiracy theorizing -- Family, gender, and the state in the post-war period -- New family debates: the rights of women, children, and LGBTQ -- The Satanic conspiracy -- Nordic exceptionalism revisited -- 4 Migration and the dangerous outsiders: Anti-immigrant conspiracy theories in the Nordic countries -- Early anti-Semitism
Anti-immigration -- Into the mainstream -- Anti-foreign -- Dog whistle rhetoric and extremism -- Forgotten people left behind -- Under siege -- Deceit and betrayal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Conspiracy theories about the Nordic countries -- Children and family values in the spotlight. Focus on Norway -- Migrants to blame. The case of Sweden -- Animal cruelty and bestiality. The case of Denmark -- The fallen Nordics -- 6 Nordic noir -- Local events and global flows -- Viral fears: conspiracy and the body -- Counter-subversion -- Patrolling the borders: the enemy outside
Nordic noir: conspiracy narratives as detective fiction -- Nordic exceptionalism? -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Bergmann, Eirikur
Dyrendal, Asbjø
Rabo, Annika
Rasmussen, Kasper Grotle
Thórisdóttir, Hulda
Önnerfors, Andreas
ISBN 9781000331103
1000331105