Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
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透明度与阴谋：新世界秩序中怀疑的民族志
DOI：
10.1215/9780822384854
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
T. Sanders
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作者：
Harry G. West;T. Sanders
近年来，透明度已成为善政的口号。政策制定者和分析家都根据政治和经济机构的运作程序的透明度来评估它们，包括法院、公司、民族国家。随着新世界秩序的到来和冷战后时代的“相互面纱的落下”，许多人断言，我们当代世界的权力比以往任何时候都更加透明。然而，从特权相对较少的人的角度来看，权力的运作往往显得不透明和不可预测。通过生动的民族志分析，《透明与阴谋》考察了广泛的对权力的普遍怀疑的表达方式，包括萨满教、巫术、阴谋论和城市巫术，将它们作为在动荡和不平衡的现代化进程中理解世界的方式。
在这个集合中，领先的人类学家揭示了全球各地阴谋思想或神秘宇宙学的变化和共性--在韩国、坦桑尼亚、莫桑比克、纽约市、印度尼西亚、蒙古、尼日利亚和加州的橙子县。撰稿人记录了人们如何表达对联合国、国家、政党、警察、法院、国际金融机构、银行、商人和店主、媒体、教会、知识分子和富人的深刻怀疑。而不是专注于这些信念的真实性，透明度和阴谋调查谁相信什么和为什么。它提出了一个令人信服的论点，反对将阴谋论和神秘宇宙论斥为反现代的、非理性的过度简单化，展示了这些信念如何通过唤起人们对世界矛盾的关注并提出理解世界的替代方法来使世界变得更加复杂。
贡献者。米丝蒂·巴斯蒂安、凯伦·麦卡锡·布朗、让·科马罗夫、约翰·科马罗夫、苏珊·哈丁、丹尼尔·海灵格、卡罗琳·汉弗莱、月桂·肯德尔、托德·桑德斯、阿尔伯特·施劳沃斯、凯瑟琳·斯图尔特、哈里·G。西
Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the “mutual veil dropping” of the post–Cold 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 power—including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legends—illuminating 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 globe—in 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