Societal Deception

Geoffrey Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. A recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Australasian Agri-food Research Network (AFRN), he has an extensive publication record on a range of topics including rural social change, agri-food industries, community resilience, food security, sport and leisure, neoliberal globalization, and financialization.

Who Can You Believe? Of Media, Misinformation and Trumpery.- It’s the Economy, Stupid! Neoliberal Nonsense and the Myths of the Free Market.- From Seedling to Supermarket: Farming, Fast Food and the Fabrication of Trust.- Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: Corporate Profiteering and Planetary Destruction.- The Power to Lie: Propaganda and Post-truth Politics.- Praying for Salvation: Forgeries and Fallacies of Religion.- The Ultimate Diversion: Sport as False Consciousness?.- The Future: Confronting the Culprits.