The Time of the Cannibals : On Conspiracy Theory and Context / Elizabeth Anne Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Elizabeth Anne, author.

Series:

Thinking from elsewhere.

Thinking from Elsewhere Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conspiracy theories.

Grave robbing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2025]

Summary:

The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus, and proposes a particular kind of cross-contextual comparison as a way out of persistent ethnocentrism in scholarship and media coverage of conspiracy theory.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Time of the Cannibals

Part 1. On Conspiracy Theory and Context

1. The Symptomatic Approach

2. The Epistemological Approach

3. The Particularist Approach

4. The Psychoanalytic Approach

5. The Political Approach

6. Toward Conspiracy Attunement

Interlude: The Body Itself

Part 2. On Conspiracy Attunement: A Case Study

1. Discourse on Division

2. The President's Body

3. Recursion and the Curse of Cyprus

Inconclusion (Recontextualization)

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

On the Frontispiece

Index

About the Author

Series List

Insert Follows Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781531508876

1531508871