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- Andreas, Önnerfors, 1971-
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Singing Theories of Conspiracy – Anti-Corona Songs as Political Protest in Denmark and Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Økonomi & Politik. - : Djøf Forlag. - 2596-8815. ; :2, s. 19-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The COVID-19-pandemic 2020–2023 triggered many responses in global conspiracy culture around six thematic fields: the origins, the spread, the mortality and morbidity of the novel virus, countermeasures in politics and public health, vaccination and ‘super-theories’ about the pandemic as a hoax or cabal orchestrated by global elites. Whereas the susceptibility to conspiracy theories in the international anti-corona milieu has been researched quite extensively, this article focusses on their cultural expressions, in particular anti-corona music in Denmark and Sweden. From internationally acclaimed artists like Eric Clapton to lesser-known figures in (and outside) the music industry, songs expressing frustrations with corona-politics and fuelled by conspiratorial tropes have been disseminated on both acknowledged streaming services and marginal YouTube-channels. This article investigates songs and music in the Danish and Swedish anti-corona movements as expressions of political protest fueled by conspiratorial ideation. A thematic analysis of four songs (two from Denmark and Sweden respectively) is conducted, guided mainly by deductive and inductive coding of lyrics and observations of performance online. The results show that the sample expresses typical rhetorical strategies (RS) and narrative tropes (NT) as identified in corpora of online anti-vaccination rhetoric (Hughes et al. 2021, 1–18) and by Koehler in his study of German far-right influences on the German anti-vax protest milieu through music (2023: 1–22). The sample size of the article doesn’t allow for generalizations, but the article attempts to contextualize the songs within the political protest culture on both sides of the Oresund in which the Danish examples mirror links to the confrontative hooligan-culture of the ‘Men in Black’ whereas the Swedish examples reflect fuzzy freedom claims as performed within the co-called ‘freedom movement’.
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- Caumanns, Ute, et al.
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Conspiracy Theories and Visual Culture
- 2020
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. - London : New York : Routledge. - 9780429452734
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book explores the relevance of conspiracy theories in the modern social and political history of the Nordic countries.The Nordic countries have traditionally imagined themselves as stable, wealthy, egalitarian welfare states. Conspiracy theories, mistrust and disunity, the argument goes, happened elsewhere in Europe (especially Eastern Europe), the Middle East or in the United States. This book paints a different picture by demonstrating that conspiracy theories have always existed in the Nordic region, both as a result of structural tensions between different groups and in the aftermath of traumatic events, but seem to have become more prominent over the last 30 or 40 years. While the book covers events and developments in each of the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland), it is not a comparative country analysis. Rather, the book focuses on conspiracy theories in and about the Nordic region as a region, arguing that similarities in the trajectories of conspiratorial thinking are interesting to examine in cultural, social, and political terms. The book takes a thematic approach, including looking at states and elites; family, gender and sexuality; migration and the outside view on the Nordic region; conspiracy theories about the Nordic countries; and Nordic noir.This book will be of great interest to researchers on extremism, conspiracy theories and the politics of the Nordic countries.
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Europe: A Continent of Conspiracies? : Conspiracy Theories in and on Europe
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited volume investigates for the first time the impact of conspiracy theories upon the understanding of Europe as a geopolitical entity as well as an imagined political and cultural space.Focusing on recent developments, the individual chapters explore a range of conspiratorial positions related to Europe. In the current climate of fear and threat, new and old imaginaries of conspiracies such as Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have been mobilised. A dystopian or even apocalyptic image of Europe in terminal decline is evoked in Eastern European and particularly by Russian pro-Kremlin media, while the EU emerges as a screen upon which several narratives of conspiracy are projected trans-nationally, ranging from the Greek debt crisis to migration, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The methodological perspectives applied in this volume range from qualitative discourse and media analysis to quantitative social-psychological approaches, and there are a number of national and transnational case studies. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of extremism, conspiracy theories and European politics.
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Expressions of Radicalization : Global Politics, Processees and Practices
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited collection considers whether it is possible to discern how the level of ideology is affected by radicalization. In other words: what happens in the minds of people before they decide to use political violence as means to attain their goals? Also this book asks: what has to happen in the minds of people in order to preclude them from using political violence as a way of attaining their goals? This volume unites scholars from several disciplines and perspectives from a number of different geographical, social and cultural contexts with the overarching aim to refine our understanding of what ‘radicalization’ actually implies.
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- Ezz El Din, Mahitab, et al.
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LVU, koranbränningar och påverkan : hur kan medierna hanteradesinformation om Sverige?
- 2023
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Ingår i: #SweFactCheck 2023 ”Sverigebilden: från underbarn till undergång." 15-17 November 2023, Kalmar, Sverige.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- LVU-kampanjen och koranbränningarna har blottat sårbarheter i den svenska opinionsbildningen med globala konsekvenser. Konflikter kring sociala myndigheters ingripanden, yttrandefrihetens och hetslagstiftningens gränser och kulturell rasism i de digitala mediernas tidevarv visar hur utsatta de svenska medierna och därmed offentligheten är för möjliga påverkanskampanjer och desinformation. Berättelserna om maktmissbruk och myndigheternas övertramp slår an strängar i konspirationsteoretiskt meningsskapande där olika samhällsgrupper ställs mot varandra. Den känslobaserade mobiliseringen av engagemang i sociala medier online men också symbolhandlingar offline eller IRL (in real life) ställer medierna inför ett antal utmaningar. Påverkanskampanjer utvecklar särskild kraft när de skjuter in sig på äkta och upplevda orättvisor och känslor av maktlöshet. Den journalistiska nyhetsförmedlingen hotas, men också myndighetsutövningen. Vad kan medierna lära sig av LVU-kampanjen och koranbränningar som hypermediala fenomen där den äkta och virtuella verkligheten förstärker varandra? Går det att återupprätta förtroende i den journalistiska rapporteringen?
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- Ezz El Din, Mahitab, et al.
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Twitter campaign against the Swedish social services : Between activism and emotional mobilization
- 2023
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Ingår i: Book of abstracts: Media and Emotional Mobilization. - : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789180820448
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Across the past year a huge Twitter campaign against the Swedish social services authorities has been launched. A previous study examining Arab Diaspora online platforms in Sweden underlined that the Arab diaspora online community in Sweden was angry and hostile describing alleged abuses of Swedish social benefits. Racialization and discrimination discourses were revealed in the analysis. Racialization appeared in different levels. The “us” and “them” dichotomy appeared during disagreements. Commentators repeatedly noted their difficulties in being considered Swedish and impressions of discrimination as a result. A discussion among diaspora community construct life in Sweden between Utopia and dystopia. The current study aims at looking at the latest crisis with the social services and examine if the twitter movement in this case construct emotional mobilization and if there are other actors who contribute to the escalation abusing the situation of immigrants in Sweden.
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- Steiner, K., et al.
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Conclusions
- 2017
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Ingår i: Expressions of Radicalization Global Politics, Processes and Practices / edited by Kristian Steiner, Andreas Önnerfors.. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319655659 ; , s. 353-359
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Önnerfors, Andreas, 1971
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”1803 års statliga reglering av ordenssällskapen”
- 2018
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Ingår i: Svenskt frimureri under 1800-talet / Willén Ode, Marcus (red.). - Uppsala : Carl Friedrich Eckleff. - 9789163951091 ; , s. 16-40
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bokkapitlet belyser den statlige regleringen av svenska ordenssällskap från 1803 och diskuterar den i en europeisk kontext.
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- Önnerfors, Andreas, 1971
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”300 years of fraternal history”
- 2017
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Ingår i: Oxford University Press blog. - : Oxford University Press. ; :22-08-2017
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Around midsummer 1717 the first masonic Grand lodge is said to have been created in London. Although the event is not documented in any primary sources, freemasons across the globe – and there are between 2 and 3 millions of them – celebrate this tercentenary with a host of special events: concerts, exhibitions and parades. But what role has the fraternity – that in our days also includes a growing number of women – played in history? Who were the men (and women) attracted by secrecy, initiation and symbolism? Are the masonic lodges precursors of modern civil society?
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