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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Call for Contributions – Critical Approaches to Conspiracy Narratives</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Poppins;">13 June 2023 · Catherine Tebaldi · 3 minute read ·<a href="https://cucolab.uni.lu/tags/calls/" originalsrc="https://cucolab.uni.lu/tags/calls/" shash="oF+SeIOAr98OSouVq06cfds4IqffP8pXELgER+gynWx8fJCzoa6gfRRgI3/HFdozw8BvKImes3v9Bq2Yyvq2jUoAvi1wEhvn05JwDYldOYU7N+Ptd+z7e9QFsOHJ1l3k7fc8xkkct0HsvanGJ4Yx/A+Lzb0FJO+v2CQTQ1YcQoE=" title="https://cucolab.uni.lu/tags/calls/"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"> #calls</span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Edited volume on ‘“That’s cultural Marxism”: Critical Approaches to Conspiracy Narratives’</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">QAnon devotees “baking” their “breadcrumbs” or assembling stories from cryptic posts, while farmers’ markets sell heirloom tomatoes and reactionary conspiracies about the great reset.
It seems conspiracy narratives in a variety of places from the very expected tinfoil hat corners of the internet, to the unexpected like yoga studios or reddit’s GameStop stock exchange forums. The narratives themselves, weave together highly typical elements
– corrupt elites, heroic truth seekers – and the strange and aleatory.. Conspiracy narratives sit between play and revelation, creating truth from the margins or playing with its borders, they sit between critique and reaction, encoding social commentary and
the language of the little guy but often with the effect of bolstering power.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We ask in this volume: What kinds of conspiracy theories are told, why these, and what do they do?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Conspiracy theories may do bad things, but they are good stories. In this volume we seek more work on the narratives, the language, or the stories of conspiracy. We seek pieces that
explore how they are created, repeated, reiterated or transformed, and what kinds of characters populate them. We also welcome pieces which can address why do they appear at some times and not others, or why some elements are easily taken up into conspiracy
and not others. We are particularly eager for work which addresses both the narrative elements of conspiracy and its social effects.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We encourage cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and critical scholarship on conspiracy narratives, and are particularly open to critical mixed-methods approaches and to work on areas
outside the US. We begin from a sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approach but aim to include a wide range of disciplinary orientations and approaches including history, literature, cultural studies, media studies and digital humanities. These could
include studies of the repetition and reiteration of a particular conspiracy across history, close readings of key conspiracy texts, semiotic analysis of conspiracy narratives, or an exploration of the popular culture elements that get taken up into a conspiracy.
More broadly we seek exciting interpretivist or mixed-methods research with critical, socio-cultural, or historical approaches to conspiracy narratives.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Chapters should be between 5000 and 6000 words, though shorter papers (3000-4000) will also be welcomed.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Submissions can cover any aspect of conspiracy narratives, some examples might include</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">QAnon’s
or other conspiracies’ linguistic style</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The
mainstreaming of Q and other conspiracy</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Conspiracy
as play, popular media, affect</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Conspiracy
and late capitalism</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Conspiracy
and gender</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Conspiracy
and Popular media</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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August 2023:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> Submit an abstract of your chapter (max. 500 words) to <a href="mailto:cucolab@uni.lu" title="mailto:cucolab@uni.lu"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">cucolab@uni.lu</span></a> with
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Please reach out to <a href="mailto:cucolab@uni.lu" title="mailto:cucolab@uni.lu"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">cucolab@uni.lu</span></a> or <a href="mailto:Catherine.Tebaldi@uni.lu" title="mailto:Catherine.Tebaldi@uni.lu"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Catherine.Tebaldi@uni.lu</span></a> for
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