Plotting Directionality on Positional Maps: A Methodological Consideration for Situational Analysis

Meszaros, Megan; Meyer, Desneige; Vold, Lindsey; Martin, Wanda

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“…Using the positional maps, it is further possible to represent the full range of positions “taken and not taken in the discursive data found in the situation.” [ 40 ] (p. 15). For this purpose, the positions are plotted on key analytic axes [ 41 ]. Special attention is paid to positions that are missing in the data.…”

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“…The pandemic can be described in different phases, for example, the period before and after the availability of a vaccine. To examine how positions evolved over time and might evolve in the future, we follow the suggestion of Meszaros et al [ 41 ] and will develop multiple maps on different events during the pandemic to capture the transformative nature of the situation.…”

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Politics in Search of Evidence—The Role of Public Health in the COVID Pandemic in Germany: Protocol for a Situational Analysis

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The protocol presents a research project that explores the relationship between science and politics in the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of public health (PH) scientists in Germany with situational analysis (SA). In context of this global crisis, we ask how PH scientists negotiate their roles as scientists and political citizens; how PH scientists perceive the relationship between their own and other scientific disciplines; and which normative assumptions PH scientists make in the production and dissemination of research findings. To conduct SA, we combine qualitative interviews with PH experts and published documents from scientific societies in PH and related disciplines (e.g., position and opinion papers) to analyze the complexity of integrating evidence-based knowledge into politics. Data are analyzed using different SA mapping tools, focusing on social worlds/arena maps and positional maps. The approach will reveal both explicit positions in the PH community and implicit or hidden voices and will reflect normative assumptions as well as internal structures of PH in Germany. The findings will be discussed with the philosophy sub-project and in a stakeholder workshop with politicians and the public. Further insights will be gained for politics and PH responses to future global crises.

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Politics in Search of Evidence—The Role of Public Health in the COVID Pandemic in Germany: Protocol for a Situational Analysis

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Apfelbacher

2022

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Policing harm reduction: A case study of who counts as human

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The debate over whether or not to have police officers carry naloxone was waged long enough in Windsor, Ontario that it became referred to in the local media as “the naloxone issue.” Compared to other cities and towns in the Canadian province, Windsor was slow to equip police officers with the life-saving drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdose. In this paper, we document the unhurried development of this particular harm reduction measure as it unfolded over the course of several years. We draw on theories of human disposability in our analysis of the debates and discussions conveyed through media coverage of the naloxone issue. In doing so, we develop an account for the resistance to a rapid implementation of harm reduction in Windsor, especially given the compounded crises of escalating opioid-related deaths and the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the logics underpinning major, minor, and left unsaid positions taken in discussions and debates on the naloxone issue as conveyed through press media, we show how, ideologically, the lives of people who use drugs (PWUD) are not only less valued, but made into wasted life. Underlying police and city administrations’ delay in equipping police officers with naloxone is an understanding of PWUD as disposable. The naloxone issue was turned into a controversy, demonstrating that the humanity of PWUD is up for debate. In contrast, the humanity of police officers is regarded as self-evident. We conclude by arguing that the eventual decision to equip all Windsor police officers with naloxone was made in the name of police safety, in particular as a way of protecting police from homeless bodies, constructed as both dangerous and drug-using, thereby revealing that the crux of the controversy was actually about whose life is worth protecting.

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Plotting Directionality on Positional Maps: A Methodological Consideration for Situational Analysis

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Politics in Search of Evidence—The Role of Public Health in the COVID Pandemic in Germany: Protocol for a Situational Analysis

Politics in Search of Evidence—The Role of Public Health in the COVID Pandemic in Germany: Protocol for a Situational Analysis

Policing harm reduction: A case study of who counts as human

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