{"product_id":"the-stigmatization-of-conspiracy-theory-since-the-1950s-a-plot-to-make-us-look-foolish-9781138346819","title":"The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory Since the 1950s: A Plot to Make Us Look Foolish","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Katharina Thalmann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre conspiracy theories everywhere and is everyone a conspiracy theorist? This ground-breaking study challenges some of the widely shared assessments in the scholarship about a perceived mainstreaming of conspiracy theory. It claims that conspiracy theory underwent a significant shift in status in the mid-20th century and has since then become highly visible as an object of concern in public debates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding an in-depth analysis of academic and media discourses, Katharina Thalmann is the first scholar to systematically trace the history and process of the delegitimization of conspiracy theory. By reading a wide range of conspiracist accounts about three central events in American history from the 1950s to 1970s - the Great Red Scare, the Kennedy assassination, and the Watergate scandal - Thalmann shows that a veritable conspiracist subculture emerged in the 1970s as conspiracy theories were pushed out of the legitimate marketplace of ideas and conspiracy theory became a commodity not unlike pornography: alluring in its illegitimacy, commonsensical, and highly profitable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis will be of interest to scholars and researchers interested in American history, culture and subcultures, as well, of course, to those fascinated by conspiracies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45239391092887,"sku":"9781138346819","price":3722.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138346819.webp?v=1769222467","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-stigmatization-of-conspiracy-theory-since-the-1950s-a-plot-to-make-us-look-foolish-9781138346819","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}