Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order

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Titel: Transparency and Conspiracy : Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order

Beteiligte: Albert, Schrauwers [Mitwirkende:r]; Bastian, Misty L. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Caroline, Humphrey [Mitwirkende:r]; Daniel, Hellinger [Mitwirkende:r]; Harry G., West [Mitwirkende:r]; Jean, Comaroff [Mitwirkende:r]; John, Comaroff [Mitwirkende:r]; Karen Mccarthy, Brown [Mitwirkende:r]; Kathleen, Stewart [Mitwirkende:r]; Kendall, Laurel [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Laurel, Kendall [Mitwirkende:r]; Misty L., Bastian [Mitwirkende:r]; Sanders, Todd [Herausgeber:in]; Susan, Harding [Mitwirkende:r]; Todd, Sanders [Mitwirkende:r]; West, Harry G [Herausgeber:in]

Erschienen: Durham: Duke University Press, [2003]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780822384854

ISBN: 9780822384854

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Schlagwörter: Conspiracy ; Power (Social sciences) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Power Revealed and Concealed in the NewWorld Order -- 1 Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World -- 2 ‘‘Diabolic Realities’’: Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and ‘‘Ritual Murder’’ in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media -- 3 ‘‘Who Rules Us Now?’’ Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections -- 4 Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia -- 5 Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania -- 6 Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories -- 7 Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics -- 8 Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power -- 9 Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America -- Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword -- Contributors -- Index

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.Contributors. Misty Bastian, Karen McCarthy Brown, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Susan Harding, Daniel Hellinger, Caroline Humphrey, Laurel Kendall, Todd Sanders, Albert Schrauwers, Kathleen Stewart, Harry G. West

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