Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 similarit
Table of Contents
1. Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries 2. The State and Secret Elites in the Nordic Countries 3. Family, Gender, and Sexuality 4. Migration and the Dangerous Outsiders: Anti-Immigrant Conspiracy Theories in the Nordic Countries 5. Conspiracy Theories About the Nordic Countries 6. Nordic Noir
