Thesis ID: CBB176349051

Suspicious Refusals: HPV Vaccine Hesitancy and the Politics of Protection in Barbados (2017)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Abril Saldaña-Tejeda
Mathieu Arminjon
Marion-Veyron, Régis
Djordjevic, Darja
Micucci, Federica E.
Comandini, Ana C. Gálvez
Concepts
Public health
Biopolitics
Vaccines; vaccination
Postcolonialism
Medicine
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
Caribbean
Africa
Barbados
Rwanda
Guyana; British Guiana
Sierra Leone
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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