Ela Drazkiewicz

Associate Professor, Lund University

elzbieta.drazkiewicz@kultur.lu.se

I am an anthropologist/ethnologist with a strong interest in political, economic and organisational studies. I am an Associate Professor of Ethnology at Lund University (Sweden). I also hold an affiliation with the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Sociology. My previous academic placements include Maynooth University in Ireland (2014-2020) and Cambridge University, UK, where I obtained my PhD in anthropology (2012).

Relevant publications

I am currently leading the ERC CONSPIRATIONS project exploring conflicts over conspiracy theories in Europe. In CONSPIRATIONS across six European countries we analyze why some people endorse conspiracy theories and why others fear their consequences and design initiatives to push back against the ‘post-truth’ era. Rather than focussing exclusively on organizations and individuals who produce and endorse conspiracy theories, CONSPIRATIONS also pays attention to the worlds of those who oppose them: organisations dedicated to countering misinformation, policy makers and NGOs.

I am also leading a Nordforsk-NORDREN project where together with colleagues from eight Nordic universities we are examining the preparedness of the Nordic societies to disinformation threats.

In the CHANSE REDACT project, together with colleagues from the UK, Germany, Estonia and Croatia we analyse how digitalisation shapes the form, content and consequences of conspiracy theories.

  1. Drazkiewicz, E. Harambam, J. 2024 What To Do About Conspiracy Theories? Academic Entanglements in Conflicts Over Truths, Routledge, London, https://www.routledge.com/What-To-Do-About-Conspiracy-Theories-Academic-Entanglements-in-Conflicts-Over-Truths/Drazkiewicz-Harambam/p/book/9781032647456
  2. Drazkiewicz, E., 2022 “Study Conspiracy Theories with Compassion”, Nature 603:7903. p.765 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00879-w
  3. Drazkiewicz, E. 2023 “Are you with us or against us? Studying Conflicts over Conspiracy Theories and Overcoming the Great Conspiratorial Divide.” Anthropology in Action, vol.30:1 pp. 12-23. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2023.300102
  4. Drazkiewicz, E. 2022, “Virtuosos of mimesis and mimicry: movements propagating conspiracy theories in Ireland and Poland”, Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol 15:3 pp. 651-671. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v15i3p651
  5. Drazkiewicz, E. 2021 “Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunisation programmes in Ireland”. Journal of Cultural Research, vol. 25:1. pp: 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2021.1886422
  6. Sobo. E. Drazkiewicz, E. 2021 “Rights, Responsibilities, And Public Health Realities: Vaccine Conspiracies And Covid-19”; in Viral Loads: Coronavirus, Inequality and an Anthropology of the Future, ed. Nancy Burke, Ayo Wahlberg, and Lenore Manderson, London, UCL Press