All publications in English language.
Butter, Michael. “Conspiracy Theories as Populist Counter-Narratives.” Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse, edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Jörn Dosch, Transcript, 2023, pp. 21-46.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “‘The Communavirus Is Here.’” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 366–377.
Rachwol, Olivia. “The Usual Suspects? Conspiracy Theories and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland.” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 280–292.
Vergnano, Cecilia. “Italian Uprising from Covid Skepticism to Societal Polarization.” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 236–251.
Turza, Lili. “Conspiracy Entrepreneurs, Fringe Movements, and the Pervasive Style of Conspiracy During the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 221–235.
Butter, Michael. “Covid Conspiracy Theories in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 208–220.
Butter, Michael, and Peter Knight. “Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective.” Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective, edited by Michael Butter and Peter Knight, 1st ed., Routledge, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 3–12
Jeitler, Constanze. “Mainstreaming Extremism or Radicalizing the Center.” AICGS, Nov. 2021, https://www.aicgs.org/2021/11/mainstreaming-extremism-or-radicalizing-the-center/.
Discussing some of the conspiracy rumors and theories that circulated during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, this essay explores the fear of communism as a recurrent conspiracist trope in the country’s recent history. Unlike many conspiracy theories that can be described as bottom-up and suspicious of the national government, the Brazilian case shows the opposite tendency: the strategic use of conspiracist narratives to reinforce the powers that be.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Covid Conspiracies in Brazil: The Old Communist Spectre Revisited.” Culturico, 24 Mar. 2022, https://culturico.com/2022/03/26/covid-conspiracies-in-brazil-the-old-communist-spectre-revisited/.
Hatzikidi, Katerina. “Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza and Benjamin Moffitt (Eds.), Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021)” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 2022, pp. 175–177., doi:10.1017/S0022216X22000128.