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Verschwörungsglaube in der Pandemie

The lecture introduces constructions of conspiracy theories that have received attention (not only) in Germany in the course of the protests against the anti-corona measures. The focus is particularly on the legend around the “Great Reset”, a program of the World Economic Forum for crisis management...

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Autor principal: Weiß, Volker
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652375/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41059-021-00090-5
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Sumario:The lecture introduces constructions of conspiracy theories that have received attention (not only) in Germany in the course of the protests against the anti-corona measures. The focus is particularly on the legend around the “Great Reset”, a program of the World Economic Forum for crisis management that is reinterpreted by the protest milieu to prove an artificial “plandemy”. In this scenario, invoked primarily by the new right, a “globalist elite” allegedly ruling the financial markets is said to introduce communism. Not accidentally, this is a conspiracy theory that reminds of antisemitic legends of the past. The return of these traditional semantics during the Corona pandemic once again confirms the longevity of paranoid and authoritarian worldviews.