{"product_id":"transparency-and-conspiracy-ethnographies-of-suspicion-in-the-new-world-order","title":"Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eTransparency has  in recent years  become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutionscourts  corporations  nation-statesaccording to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the mutual veil dropping of the postCold War era  many have asserted that power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet from the perspective of the relatively less privileged  the operation of power often appears opaque and unpredictable. Through vivid ethnographic analyses  Transparency and Conspiracy examines a vast range of expressions of the popular suspicion of powerincluding forms of shamanism  sorcery  conspiracy theory  and urban legendsilluminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization. In this collection leading anthropologists reveal the variations and commonalities in conspiratorial thinking or occult cosmologies around the globein Korea  Tanzania  Mozambique  New York City  Indonesia  Mongolia  Nigeria  and Orange County  California. The contributors chronicle how people express profound suspicions of the United Nations  the state  political parties  police  courts  international financial institutions  banks  traders and shopkeepers  media  churches  intellectuals  and the wealthy. Rather than focusing on the veracity of these convictions  Transparency and Conspiracy investigates who believes what and why. It makes a compelling argument against the dismissal of conspiracy theories and occult cosmologies as antimodern  irrational oversimplifications  showing how these beliefs render the world more complex by calling attention to its contradictions and proposing alternative ways of understanding it.  Contributors. Misty Bastian  Karen McCarthy Brown  Jean Comaroff  John Comaroff  Susan Harding  Daniel Hellinger  Caroline Humphrey  Laurel Kendall  Todd Sanders  Albert Schrauwers  Kathleen Stewart  Harry G. West\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952236687413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0822330245","price":70.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822330240.jpg?v=1770155278","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/transparency-and-conspiracy-ethnographies-of-suspicion-in-the-new-world-order","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}