Conspiratorial Thinking among Russian Speakers in Estonia

From Covid-19 to the War in Ukraine

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ID2792315
AuthorsAnastasiya Astapova (0000-0002-9401-0909, Anastasiya Astapova is Associate Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume136
Issue542
Pages361-385
Publication date2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15351882.136.542.01
OpenAlexW4388524872
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited40

This research stems from ethnographic interviews about COVID-19 conspiracy theories that uncovered that the interviewees (members of the Russophone minority residing in Estonia) perceived a significant connection between the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. I analyze major themes that bring two conspiracy theories together, one theory about the pandemic and the other about the war in Ukraine-and other narratives that tend to gravitate toward them to form a system of vernacular knowledge. I also explore the reasons and vulnerabilities behind this group's beliefs in conspiracy theories

Connection (principal bundle) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Ethnography · Linguistics · Narrative · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · History · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy

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