| Id | 2130 | |
| Author | Bergem I.M. | |
| Title | Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass | |
| Reference | Bergem I.M. Anti-vaccination as political dissent – a post-political reading of Yellow Vests’ accounts of Covid-19, vaccines and the Health pass,Philosophy and Social Criticism |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85142902112&doi=10.1177%2f01914537221141462&partnerID=40&md5=856fb81f9f2ba55e67ba5963b2376771 |
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| Abstract | This article theorizes the connection between political distrust and conspiracy theories through a post-political framework. Following Luc Boltanski’s focus on the critical capacities of ordinary actors, it builds on interviews with participants of the Yellow Vest Movement in France who hold conspiratorial views of Covid-19 and the vaccine. The article explores how the interviewees’ critique mirrors that of post-political theorists. In particular, I use Rancière’s notion of subjectification and politics to theorize how conspiracy theories function as a means of dissent in the interviewees’ understanding of their experiences as well as in their own critique of and disillusionment with politics in France. As such, this article explores how political trust affected reactions to the pandemic, how political trust is interconnected with conspiracy theories and finally how such conspiracy theories can be viewed as biproducts of the post-political order. © The Author(s) 2022. |
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