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The Time of the Cannibals : On Conspiracy Theory and Context / Elizabeth Anne Davis.
Davis, Elizabeth Anne, author.
2024
HV6275 .D38 2025
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Title
The Time of the Cannibals : On Conspiracy Theory and Context / Elizabeth Anne Davis.
Author
Davis, Elizabeth Anne, author.
ISBN
9781531508876
1531508871
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531508876
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2024]
Copyright
2025
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (320 p.) : 8 color and 23 b/w illustrations.
Item Number
10.1515/9781531508876 doi
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HV6275 .D38 2025
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.16209495
Summary
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals 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." 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. 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. The Time of the Cannibals asks what better kind of contextualization this and any "case" call for, and proposes the concept of conspiracy attunement: a means of grasping the dialogic contexts in which conspiracy theories work recursively as matters of political and cultural significance in the long durée.
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: The Time of the Cannibals
Part 1 On Conspiracy Theory and Context
Introduction
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
Introduction
1. Discourse on Division
2. The President's Body
3. Recursion and the Curse of Cyprus
Inconclusion (Recontextualization)
Acknowledgments
Notes
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Index
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