134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the relevance of conspiracy theories in the modern social and political history of the Nordic countries. The Nordic countries have traditionally imagined themselves as stable, wealthy, egalitarian welfare states. Conspiracy theories, mistrust and disunity, the argument goes, happened elsewhere in Europe (especially Eastern Europe), the Middle East or in the United States.... Read more

Chapter 1: Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries

Chapter 2: The State and Secret Elites in the Nordic Countries

Chapter 3: Family, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 4: Migration and the Dangerous Outsiders: Anti-Immigrant Conspiracy Theories in the Nordic Countries

Chapter 5: Conspiracy Theories About the Nordic Countries

Chapter 6: Nordic Noir

Biography

Anastasiya Astapova is  Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics at Bifrost University, Iceland.

Asbjørn Dyrendal is Professor of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Annika Rabo is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Kasper Grotle Rasmussen is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark.

Hulda Thórisdóttir is  Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland.

Andreas Önnerfors is Associate Professor of the History of Sciences and Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.