9 Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Power Revealed and Concealed in the NewWorld Order 1
5. 1 Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World 38
6. 2 ‘‘Diabolic Realities’’: Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and ‘‘Ritual Murder’’ in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media 65
7. 3 ‘‘Who Rules Us Now?’’ Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections 92
8. 4 Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia 125
9. 5 Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania 148
10. 6 Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories 175
11. 7 Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics 204
12. 8 Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power 233
13. 9 Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America 258
14. Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword 287
15. Contributors 301
16. Index 305