Broadening Ethnographic Following

From Following Conflicts to Following Agreements and Silences in Vaccination Debates

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2143333
AutoresZ Knezevic (0000-0002-0205-5326, Dalarna University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen90
Número5
Páginas1-18
Fecha de publicación2024-05-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2024.2353100
OpenAlexW4396974154
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas54

George Marcus's methodology for multi-sited ethnography is widely discussed and applied in anthropology and the strategy of 'following the conflict' has been a fruitful approach to studying controversies and conflicts. Drawing on my shifting methodology in the initial stages of a digital ethnography project on vaccination-related online community forums, I explore 'the war' on vaccines using a broadened strategy that includes following agreements and silences within the controversy. By examining the debate in conjunction with medical anthropology research, I discuss how both vaccine-cautious and vaccine-confident forum members challenge conventional debate divisions, such as scientific-unscientific, evidential-anecdotal and genetic-environmental, while still adhering to medico-scientific discourses as zones of agreement. Whereas an agreement-oriented methodology contributes to research on liminal zones and reconfigured forms of bio-citizenship and literacy, the strategy of 'following silences' highlights the limits to liminality in a debate underpinned by adultism that silences the views of young people

Ethnography · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Vaccination · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Medicine · Sex work and related issues · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Virology