627 Wanneer komt dat proefschrift over 'Conspiracy' nu eindelijk?

In 2011 heeft de NWO een subsidie verstrekt voor onderzoek naar Conspiracy.  

Het zou in 2015 klaar moeten zijn. 

Maar ik vermoed dat het zelfs nu nog niet klaar is. 

Ik heb voorlopig niet de tijd om het verder uit te zoeken. 

Ik plaats hieronder enkele zaken die ik later kan onderzoeken. 

Hier de aankondiging door het NWO: 

https://www.nwo.nl/onderzoek-en-resultaten/onderzoeksprojecten/i/24/7524.html

Zapplog doet er schamper over: 

http://zaplog.nl/zaplog/article/lekker_gesubsidieerd_zaplog_bijhouden   

prof. Stef Aupers is er bij betrokken:

http://www.stefaupers.nl/home/1

Het NWO schrijft: 

We willen weten: 1 wat zijn de belangrijkste conspiracy theorieëm? 

2. Waarom worden mensen aangetrokken tot deze theorieën ? 

...... this project aims to study 1) the main narratives, themes and topics of contemporary conspiracy culture in the Netherlands and 2) how affinity with conspiracy discourse can be explained.

Ze denken dat de conspiracy adepten vooral mensen zijn die hun oude geloof in God of Politiek zijn verloren, in conspiracies vluchten voor houvast: "  We hypothesize that particularly those who find themselves unstuck from the religious and politico-ideological pillarized moorings of the past turn to conspiracy culture for solace from modernity's cultural discontents. "

Eén jaar nadat het proefschrif klaar had moeten zijn is er nog niks gepubliceerd, behalve een artikel van de promovendus en van een betrokken professor. ( Zie onder ) 

Uit de samenvating blijkt dat er nog niks bekend is, na 5 jaar onderzoek. Enkel zaken die U en ik al wisten: 

1 Al die conspiracy lieden zijn verschillend van elkaar.  

2. Ze zien zichzelf niet als conspiracy adept. Ze zien zichzelf als rationeeel iemand. 

Dat lijkt me niet vreemd: Al 50 jaar wordt er volop propaganda gemaakt voor het idee dat je zielig en dom bent als je in een samenzwering gelooft.  De meeste mensen willen zichzelf dus niet met zo'n  etiket op hun voorhoofd zien. 

( Ondergetekende , J.V.  heeft er totaal geen moeite mee: ik ben een trotse Conspiracy Adept.  Zoals Gilad Atzmion zichzelf als 'Proud self-hating jew' wil omschrijven. ) 

Ik krijg de indruk dat het hele project is vastgelopen. 

Maar wie weet: in de bio van Harambam lezen we dat hij nog steeds met zijn these bezig is. 

Hier het artikel uit 2016: 

Noot:  Het CIA document, memo 1035-960 ontbreekt in de litteratuurlijst. ( Memo 1035-960)  

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‘I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist’: Relational Identifications in the Dutch Conspiracy Milieu

Jaron Harambam, Stef Aupers

First Published September 29, 2016 Research Article

 

Abstract

Despite their popularity and normalization, the public image of conspiracy theory remains morally tainted. Academics contribute by conceiving of conspiracy theorists as a coherent collective: internal variety is sacrificed for a clear external demarcation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands, we explore variation in the conspiracy milieu through people’s own self-understanding. More particularly, we study how these people identify with and distinguish themselves from others. The analysis shows that they actively resist their stigmatization as ‘conspiracy theorists’ by distinguishing themselves from the mainstream as ‘critical freethinkers’. The trope ‘I am not a conspiracy theorist’ is used to reclaim rationality by labelling others within the conspiracy milieu the ‘real’ conspiracy theorists. Secondly, their ideas of self and other make three groups apparent: ‘activists’, ‘retreaters’ and ‘mediators’. Conspiracy culture, we conclude, is not one monolithic whole, but rather a network of different groups of people, identifying with different worldviews, beliefs, and practices.

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Author biographies

Jaron Harambam is currently finishing his PhD at the Rotterdam Centre for Cultural Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research is on conspiracy theories having carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch conspiracy milieu. He has recently published in Public Understanding of Science (2015) about why conspiracy theorists contest the epistemic authority of science. His broader sociological interests lie at the intersections of science, popular culture and religion. He is an editor of the Dutch peer-reviewed journal Sociologie, co-edited a special issue on actor-network theory (2014), and has published on the commercialisation of virtual worlds (2011) and cultural beliefs about online sociality (2013).

Stef Aupers is professor of media culture at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Most of his work deals with post-traditional forms of religion, spirituality and conspiracy culture and, particularly, the way such beliefs are mediatized. Stef has published in journals such as Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Public Understanding of Science and European Journal of Communication. His latest international books are Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital (Brill, 2010) and Paradoxes of Individualization: Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity (Routledge, 2011).