This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. It contributes to filling the gap in the research by providing in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory, and nuanced considerations of more theoretical issues

Introduction Part I: Case Studies 1. Makers versus Getters: Productivism in Henry Ford’s The International Jew 2. Anticommunism and Conspiracy Myths in Brazil: From the 1937 “Cohen Plan” to the Bolsonarist “Red Menace” 3. The Weaponization of Conspiracy Theories 4. Populism and Conspiracism in Croatia and Their Articulations among Citizens from Left to Right 5. “We are the Olive Trees”—Conspiracism and Environmentalism in Southern Italy: The Case of Xylella Fastidiosa 6. Populism and Conspiracy Thinking in the Aufstehen-Movement 7. “The Invention of a Pandemic”—Conspiracist Argumentation in the German Alternative Newspaper Demokratischer Widerstand 8. Left-Wing Populist-Conspiracism: The Case of Tunisia 9. Conspiracy Theory and the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: A Left-Right Convergence? 10. Conspiratorial Tropes in Rodrigo Duterte’s Populistic Rhetoric Part II: Theoretical Perspectives 11. Marxismo Cultural/Cultural Marxism: Transnational Conspiracy Theories and the Brazilian New Right 12. On the Elective Affinity between Post-Marxism, Left-Wing Populism, and Conspiracist World Views 13. A New Poetic of Conspiracism? Conspiracy Theory in a Time of Post-Narrative Politics 14. New Media’s Conspiratorial Affordances: An Ecology of Mind Approach 15. Haute Baroque Bling: Style, Taste, and Distinction in the Study of Conspiracist Populism 16. Studying Conspiracy Theory after the (Current) Rise of Right-Wing Populism