Pox populi
Anti-vaxx, anti-politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2399747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis Russell (0000-0002-6376-2139, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 699-715 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14407833221101660 |
| OpenAlex | W4293249067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article explores the political meaning of the interconnected anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protest movements that have emerged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A range of academics and commentators have argued that such protests should be understood in terms of a dangerous resurgence of far-right populism, one that is fuelled by misinformation and extremist ideologies. This article tests such a framing by engaging with recent scholarship on the 'anti-political' - the theorisation of the growing inability for political action to occur other than in opposition to the political system itself. Against the conventional reading of the protests as fundamentally political, this article looks at recent anthropological work on 'conspirituality' in order to investigate how the aesthetic and performative dimensions of such protests may be key to understanding contemporary anti-vaccine thought and action
Aesthetics · Dissent · Framing (construction) · Ideology · Media studies · Misinformation · Opposition (politics) · Performative utterance · Political communication · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
They don’t care about you, me or anyone else
Which values relate to vaccine hesitancy and vaccination willingness, receipt, and word-of-mouth? And why? An application of Schwartz’s value theory
Special Issue
So-Called Sovereign Settlers
Gilets jaunes et Anti-pass sanitaire
Radical right and anti-vax protests between movements and parties
Deregulatory Folkways of Health
Critical Junctures, Ideological Continuity and Change in Western Europe
What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier
Vaccine passports equal Apartheid
Separation, but not Division
Vaccine hesitancy, vaccine refusal and the anti-vaccine movement
Anti-vaccine activists, Web 2.0, and the postmodern paradigm – An overview of tactics and tropes used online by the anti-vaccination movement
Anti-vaxxers how to challenge a misinformed movement
Prevention is better than cure
The Human Condition
The social characteristics of Americans opposed to vaccination
Hate in the Homeland
From Politics to Protest
Magic and Politics
Anti-vaccination movements and their interpretations
Nudge Economics as Libertarian Paternalism
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |