Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

Since the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic concerned groups of people have
produced knowledge refused by institutional science of how to manage public health and …

In many countries, science is challenged by science-related populism, which deems the
common sense of “ordinary people” superior to the knowledge of “academic elites” …

Although the institutional model of science communication operated well during the corona-
pandemic, and relevant public institutions (media, science, politics) garnered higher levels …

The rapid advancement of biological research and biotechnology requires a novel and
robust regulatory agency to ensure uniform biosafety and biosecurity governance in the …

This chapter analyses the process involved in enacting broad discursive substantive arenas
in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In so doing, the chapter highlights the role played …

The social actors, technologies, affordances and business models behind digital media and
platforms, such as Facebook, X (previously Twitter), YouTube and Weibo, have changed the …

This chapter offers a reflexive account of the overall fieldwork conducted by the research
team into the four refused knowledge communities (RKCs). A reflexive account is particularly …

This chapter describes the research context and justification for the book. It discusses the
relevance of contemporary practices contesting scientific knowledge, with a focus on the …

Refused knowledge communities (RKCs) can be analytically framed as specific social
worlds, in the context of which questioning science-related epistemic, professional, and …