Dangerous machinery: "Conspiracy theorist" as a transpersonal strategy of exclusion

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-150

  Husting, Ginna ^a   Orr, Martin ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34248231428     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2007.30.2.127     Document Type: Article

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