Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction

Through a series of specific questions that cut to the core of conspiracism as a global social and cultural phenomenon this book deconstructs the logic and rhetoric of conspiracy theories and analyses the broader social and psychological factors that contribute to their persistence in modern society.

Author: J. Byford
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/12/2011
Pages: 179
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230272798

About the Author
JOVAN BYFORD is Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovi? (2008) and Conspiracy Theory: Serbia v. the New World Order (2006, in Serbian).