Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World OrderHarry G. West, Todd Sanders Duke University Press, 17. 4. 2003. - 316 страница Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the “mutual veil dropping” of the post–Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet from the perspective of the relatively less privileged, the operation of power often appears opaque and unpredictable. Through vivid ethnographic analyses, Transparency and Conspiracy examines a vast range of expressions of the popular suspicion of power—including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legends—illuminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization. In this collection leading anthropologists reveal the variations and commonalities in conspiratorial thinking or occult cosmologies around the globe—in Korea, Tanzania, Mozambique, New York City, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, and Orange County, California. The contributors chronicle how people express profound suspicions of the United Nations, the state, political parties, police, courts, international financial institutions, banks, traders and shopkeepers, media, churches, intellectuals, and the wealthy. Rather than focusing on the veracity of these convictions, Transparency and Conspiracy investigates who believes what and why. It makes a compelling argument against the dismissal of conspiracy theories and occult cosmologies as antimodern, irrational oversimplifications, showing how these beliefs render the world more complex by calling attention to its contradictions and proposing alternative ways of understanding it. |
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... Political Science ( LSE ) . The workshop was organized by Harry G. West and Todd Sanders , with administrative assis- tance from Margaret Bothwell and Annick Saliman . Draft papers were pre- sented at the workshop by Laurel Kendall ...
... political power is nothing new in America ( Bailyn 1967 ; Davis 1969 , 1971 ; Hutson 1984 ; Ostler 1995 ) , be it what Richard Hofstadter ( 1965 ) has called " the paranoid style in American politics " or earlier Jeffersonian or ...
... political institutions . Appadurai's use of the suffix -scape has the decided analytical effect of de- centering such global discourses as we seek to understand them . Ideoscapes are not only amorphous but also move at lightning speed ...
... political scientists have been dismissive of the conspiracy ideas of Westerners . Richard Hofstadter ( 1965 ) set the tone for later scholars by suggesting that conspiracy theories were collective " para- noid delusions . " Karl Popper ...
... political and economic developments in Owerri over the past decade . Not- withstanding a post - oil - boom recession ... politics among these global subalterns ( see Ortner 1995 : 179 ) . Through her telling of the story of ritual murder ...
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Gods Markets and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World | 38 |
Diabolic Realities Narratives of Conspiracy Transparency and Ritual Murder in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media | 65 |
Who Rules Us Now? Identity Tokens Sorcery and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections | 92 |
Through a Glass Darkly Charity Conspiracy and Power in New Order Indonesia | 125 |
Invisible Hands and Visible Goods Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania | 148 |
Stalin and the Blue Elephant Paranoia and Complicity in PostCommunist Metahistories | 175 |
Paranoia Conspiracy and Hegemony in American Politics | 204 |
Making Wanga Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power | 233 |
Anxieties of Influence Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America | 258 |
An Afterword | 287 |
Contributors | 301 |
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