Radicalizing Populism and the Making of an Echo Chamber: The Case of the Italian Anti-Vaccination Movement

Rietdijk, Natascha

doi:10.21827/krisis.41.1.37163

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“…Questions remain as to the contemporary and lingering effects of populist approaches to public health which equated getting vaccinated to a moral imperative to protect the nation. During vaccination roll‐out, resistance was self‐evident across Italy, where anti‐vax movements contested aspects of the campaign as representing vehicle of elite control (Rietdijk, 2021). This study responds to a recognition of the need for social science perspectives to investigate the ‘unintended’ consequences of vaccination campaigns (Dada et al 2020).…”

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‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region

Storer

Torre

2023

Global Policy

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Prior to COVID‐19, migrant journeys through the Mediterranean were often described with reference to the barriers posed within ‘fortress Europe’ or through registers which centre migrant's adeptness at navigating draconian immigration regimes. Between these two contexts, this paper explores how a public authority lens can assist in understanding the implications of COVID‐19 and associated vaccine bureaucracies. We draw on ethnographic research on the Italian‐French Alpine border and chart how ‘vaccine populism’—perpetuated in nationalist political discourse as well as in the counter‐commentaries of resistance offered by solidarity networks—has specific implications for migrants' access to vaccines and health information. We argue that analyses attentive to the subtle nuances of state and local politics provide an important entry point to map multi‐scalar power dynamics which accompany universal health policies. Through considering the complex realities relating to Alpine crossings, we advocate from less categorising approaches to vaccinating migrants.

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Section: Revisiting Covid‐19 Mutual Assistancementioning

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‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region

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Torre

2023

Global Policy

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Anti-vaccinationists International, Public Movements and Socio-Political Conflicts

Belau,

Rahimitabar,

Krämer

2023

Medizin, Kultur, Gesellschaft

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Radical right and anti-vax protests between movements and parties: a comparative study

Caiani,

Susanszky,

Saridakis

2024

Acta Polit

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Mobilisations opposed to vaccinations and other Covid-19-related measures have dominated the protest arena in the recent years of the pandemic. Radical right collective actors, whether newly emerging or revitalised, have successfully shaped public discourses and gained significant roles on the streets and in party politics. This paper analyses the radical right (RR) mobilisation that takes place in response to the pandemic, looking at the main actors, demands and strategies behind protest events, and paying particular attention to the relationship between movements and parties. The analysis focusses on Italy and Hungary, two European countries characterised by favourable political opportunities for radical right mobilisation in recent years. The argument is that the pandemic offered a new window of opportunities for the empowerment of (new and old) radical right collective actors, leading, however, to different outcomes in terms of ‘movement–parties’ relations (or ‘movement–parties’ formation). The article draws on a mixed method approach including a protest event analysis based on newspapers and police records (2021–2022), comprising more than 300 events, and 30 in-depth interviews with radical right and anti-vax activists and leaders in both countries. The findings highlight that while health-related demands are the most important issues in both countries, the outcomes of such protests are different, both in terms of the intensity of radical right mobilisation (including violence) and in the movement–party relations. In the Italian case, the protest against vaccines gives birth to a strict division of labour or ‘conflict’ between RR movements (which remained the main actors of the street protest) and political parties (in institutions), while in Hungary the two sides are characterised by ‘cooperation’. These results demonstrate that in the two analysed countries, anti-vax and Covid-19-related protests have different impacts on national politics and the conflict arena, which require investigation of movement–party relations to be fully grasped.

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Radicalizing Populism and the Making of an Echo Chamber: The Case of the Italian Anti-Vaccination Movement

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region

‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region

Anti-vaccinationists International, Public Movements and Socio-Political Conflicts

Radical right and anti-vax protests between movements and parties: a comparative study

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