Charles, Nicole (Author)
Trotz, D. Alissa (Advisor)
Murphy, Michelle (Advisor)
This dissertation, based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean, critically examines hesitancy toward the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Barbados. As a project of women of colour and transnational feminist theory, it argues that “hesitancy”—vernacularized in Barbados as suspicion—is an affective orientation produced in the multi-scaled tensions and circuits of both the colonial and postcolonial state. By situating acts of (bio)medical and technological refusal in Barbados in longer spatio-temporal, cultural and political genealogies that animate contemporary suspicions toward state-led public health interventions, this work challenges mainstream narratives of irrationality that undergird the conception of hesitancy to argue for Barbadian parents’ suspicion as a mode of protection. Put another way, this work proposes an interruption of the impulse to eliminate hesitancy, and a move instead to appreciate the historical significance, contemporary relevance, and generativity of the presumed-unsettling nature of suspicion. This work is situated in conversation with critical traditions of feminist and decolonial theorization in the global South, as well as within an emerging body of transnational feminist work on affect, culture, technologies and neoliberal globalization in the Anglophone Caribbean.
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