From Literary Culture to Post-Communist Media: Romanian Conspiracism
| Autor: | Onoriu Colăcel, Corneliu Pintilescu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Literature
History Romania Post communist business.industry Romanian 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies Romanian conspiracy theories lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities language.human_language 0506 political science 0508 media and communications Literary culture lcsh:AZ20-999 050602 political science & public administration language conspiracism business conspiracy narratives Classics |
| Zdroj: | Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 31-40 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1844-8836 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/msas-2017-0007 |
| Popis: | Conspiracy thinking has a long history in Romanian literary culture. In the early 21st century, what counts as a conspiracy theory in the mainstream of Romanian life is nevertheless elusive enough to keep the public engaged more than ever before. The growing number of attempts to address the gap in knowledge with regard to local conspiracy theories is proof that concern with their possibly harmful consequences is on the rise as well. For most of the conspiracy-minded, the topics of the day are specific threats posed to post-communist Romania and its people. In the main, conspiratorial beliefs fall into three main fields. Namely, they come across as 1) conspiracy theories against the body politic of the nation, 2) health-related conspiracy theories and 3) conspiracy theories on use and conservation of natural resources. While the first two overlap and build on the tradition of home-grown populism, the third is mostly a borrowing from Western media sources. However, the most influential instances of Romanian conspiracism posit that the well-being of the nation’s body politic and that of individuals’ own bodies are one and the same. |
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