Listen to Lagalisse in conversation with colleague Elżbieta Drążkiewicz on the anthropology of conspiracy theory in the first three episodes of Politics After the Pandemic by following this link (originally launched in March 2023).
The written transcript, accompanying photographs, citation information and more can be found by following this hyperlink.
“With the Covid-19 pandemic trailing off into continuous infection, the
normalisation of profit over care, and a curtailing of rights to
assembly, privacy and protest, social justice movements face a new
series of challenges. In Politics After the Pandemic
anthropologist of social movements and popular educator Erica Lagalisse
thinks transnationally with social scientists and political activists
about recent cultural shifts in their relation to Covid-19, capitalism
and other structures of oppression, and how social movements, educators
and researchers might respond. In this transnational project of public
ethnography Lagalisse engages international researchers in long-form
conversations, interviews, and to host guest episodes as global analysts
and local experts as well as cultural translators, bringing social
science to the public, and public debate to social science.”
The Anthropology of Conspiracy Theory
Anthropologists Erica Lagalisse and Elżbieta Drazkiewitz explore “conspiracy theory” as a form of social critique that signals mistrust in institutions, and study the differences between “conspiracy theory” of state power and accepted social theories of the same.
Conspiracy Theory During the Covid-19 PandemiC
Anthropologists Erica Lagalisse and Elżbieta Drazkiewicz continue their study of “conspiracy theory” by comparing social movement claims about government plots during the Covid-19 pandemic in Poland, Ireland and the USA. Everywhere citizens mistrust the state, but do so differently depending on local histories. Second of a three-part mini-series.
Conspiracy Theory, Modernity and Class Respectability
Anthropologists Erica Lagalisse and Elżbieta Drążkiewicz complete their conversation on the social science of knowledge, power and conspiracy by studying “conspiracy theory” as an ethnographic category, which is one that develops at a certain time and place for specific social and historical reasons. Third of a three-part mini-series.
Executive Producer and Host: Erica Lagalisse
Guest: Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
Sound Engineer: Clara-Swan Kennedy
Illustrator: Laura Arlotti
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