Elżbieta Drążkiewicz is an anthropologist leading the ERC project CONSPIRATIONS investigating conflicts over conspiracy theories in Europe. She specializes in organisational, political, and economic anthropology. Her research also includes studies of foreign aid and development management and public health governance. She is an author of Institutionalised Dreams: The Art of Managing Foreign Aid (2020).Jaron Harambam is Assistant Professor of Media, Truth Politics and Digitalization at the Sociology Department of the University of Amsterdam. His research deals with public disputes over truth in a digitalized public sphere. More specifically, he studies conspiracy theories, news and platform politics, and AI (content moderation, search/recommender systems). Central to his research is the participation of multiple stakeholders to design our (future) digital worlds along democratic and public values. He is the author of Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the open-access Dutch-Belgian peer-reviewed journal Tijdschrift Sociologie, and member of the European network of scholars working on conspiracy theories, COST COMPACT.

• Introduction: What should academics do about conspiracy theories? Moving beyond debunking to better deal with conspiratorial movements, misinformation and post-truth 1. Conspiracist cognition: chaos, convenience, and cause for concern 2. Evaluating conspiracy claims as public sphere communication 3. Conspiracy theories in political-economic context: lessons from parents with vaccine and other pharmaceutical concerns 4. Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunisation programmes in Ireland 5. Towards an ecological ethics of academic responsibility: debunking power structures through relationality in Greek environmentalism 6. Against modernist illusions: why we need more democratic and constructivist alternatives to debunking conspiracy theories

Elżbieta Drążkiewicz is an anthropologist leading the ERC project CONSPIRATIONS investigating conflicts over conspiracy theories in Europe. She specializes in organisational, political, and economic anthropology. Her research also includes studies of foreign aid and development management and public health governance. She is an author of Institutionalised Dreams: The Art of Managing Foreign Aid (2020).Jaron Harambam is Assistant Professor of Media, Truth Politics and Digitalization at the Sociology Department of the University of Amsterdam. His research deals with public disputes over truth in a digitalized public sphere. More specifically, he studies conspiracy theories, news and platform politics, and AI (content moderation, search/recommender systems). Central to his research is the participation of multiple stakeholders to design our (future) digital worlds along democratic and public values. He is the author of Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the open-access Dutch-Belgian peer-reviewed journal Tijdschrift Sociologie, and member of the European network of scholars working on conspiracy theories, COST COMPACT.

• Introduction: What should academics do about conspiracy theories? Moving beyond debunking to better deal with conspiratorial movements, misinformation and post-truth 1. Conspiracist cognition: chaos, convenience, and cause for concern 2. Evaluating conspiracy claims as public sphere communication 3. Conspiracy theories in political-economic context: lessons from parents with vaccine and other pharmaceutical concerns 4. Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunisation programmes in Ireland 5. Towards an ecological ethics of academic responsibility: debunking power structures through relationality in Greek environmentalism 6. Against modernist illusions: why we need more democratic and constructivist alternatives to debunking conspiracy theories

Elżbieta Drążkiewicz is an anthropologist leading the ERC project CONSPIRATIONS investigating conflicts over conspiracy theories in Europe. She specializes in organisational, political, and economic anthropology. Her research also includes studies of foreign aid and development management and public health governance. She is an author of Institutionalised Dreams: The Art of Managing Foreign Aid (2020).Jaron Harambam is Assistant Professor of Media, Truth Politics and Digitalization at the Sociology Department of the University of Amsterdam. His research deals with public disputes over truth in a digitalized public sphere. More specifically, he studies conspiracy theories, news and platform politics, and AI (content moderation, search/recommender systems). Central to his research is the participation of multiple stakeholders to design our (future) digital worlds along democratic and public values. He is the author of Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the open-access Dutch-Belgian peer-reviewed journal Tijdschrift Sociologie, and member of the European network of scholars working on conspiracy theories, COST COMPACT.

• Introduction: What should academics do about conspiracy theories? Moving beyond debunking to better deal with conspiratorial movements, misinformation and post-truth 1. Conspiracist cognition: chaos, convenience, and cause for concern 2. Evaluating conspiracy claims as public sphere communication 3. Conspiracy theories in political-economic context: lessons from parents with vaccine and other pharmaceutical concerns 4. Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunisation programmes in Ireland 5. Towards an ecological ethics of academic responsibility: debunking power structures through relationality in Greek environmentalism 6. Against modernist illusions: why we need more democratic and constructivist alternatives to debunking conspiracy theories