{"product_id":"the-time-of-the-cannibals-on-conspiracy-theory-and-context-paperback-softback-9781531508852","title":"The Time of the Cannibals; On Conspiracy Theory and Context (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531508852","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Time of the Cannibals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn Conspiracy Theory and Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Anne Davis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531508852\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 8 color and 23 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.599 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave.\u003ci\u003e The Time of the Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories \"in context.\" \u003cbr\u003e The months after Papadopoulos's body was stolen saw intense public speculation in Cyprus, including widespread expressions of sacrilege, along with many false accusations against Cypriots and foreigners positioned as his political antagonists. Davis delves into the public discourse on conspiracy theory in Cyprus that flourished in the aftermath, tracing theories about the grave robbery to theories about the division of Cyprus some thirty-five years earlier, and both to longer histories of imperial and colonial violence. \u003cbr\u003e Along the way, Davis explores cross-contextual connections among Cyprus and other locales, in the form of conspiracy theories as well as political theologies regarding the dead bodies of political leaders. Through critical close readings of academic and journalistic approaches to conspiracy theory, Davis shows that conspiracy theory as an analytic object fails to sustain comparative analysis, and defies any general theory of conspiracy theory. What these approaches accomplish instead, she argues, is the perpetuation of ethnocentrism in the guise of contextualization. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Time of the Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e asks what better kind of contextualization this and any \"case\" call for, and proposes the concept of \u003ci\u003econspiracy attunement\u003c\/i\u003e: a means of grasping the dialogic contexts in which conspiracy theories work recursively as matters of political and cultural significance in the long durée.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Time of the Cannibals   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: On Conspiracy Theory and Context\u003c\/b\u003e   27\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Symptomatic Approach   28\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Epistemological Approach   47\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Particularist Approach   54\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Approach   63\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Political Approach   76\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003eToward Conspiracy Attunement   87\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInterlude: The Body Itself\u003c\/i\u003e   110\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: On Conspiracy Attunement: A Case Study\u003c\/b\u003e   153\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eDiscourse on Division   155\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e The President's Body   168\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eRecursion and the Curse of Cyprus   193\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInconclusion \u003c\/b\u003e(Recontextualization)   217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  227\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  253\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Frontispiece\u003c\/i\u003e   273\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInsert follows page 150\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670830706968,"sku":"9781531508852","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-time-of-the-cannibals-on-conspiracy-theory-and-context-paperback-softback-9781531508852","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}