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The Biopolitics of Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, and Settler Colonial Whiteness on Lingít Aaní (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Kersch.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research project examines transformations in the relationship between race and biopolitics in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks over the past 200 years. Specifically, I interrogate the intersection of whiteness and infectious disease and suggest that the politicized concept of whiteness has shifted dramatically. I hypothesize that: 1) over the course of Russian and...

Immunization Controversies: Vaccine hesitant knowledge ecologies after COVID-19 (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2023)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marco Dell'Oca.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even before the COVID-19 pandemics, vaccine hesitancy had been described as one of the most dangerous threats to global health of our times. The current pandemic has exacerbated the difference between those supporting the validity of vaccines and those against it. In the wake of COVID-19, across Europe and the US, the category of “anti-vaxxer” was connected in the media to qualifiers such as...