Title
Vertraute Lebenswelten der Wissenschaftsskepsis. Die Kritik an der Corona-Impfpflicht als Präludium für den Widerstand gegen interventionistische Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
Author
Katharina Miko-Schefzig
Kompetenzzentrum für empirische Forschungsmethoden, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Arthur Buckenleib
Soziologisches Seminar, Universität Basel
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Abstract
The announcement of mandatory vaccination in Austria in November 2021 was part of a long series of political ordinances to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures, which were perceived as an interventionist state interfering in private matters, led to widespread protests and criticism. The latters’ interpretation as a conspiracy-theoretical position from the fringes, however, is not compatible with the range of institutional and science scepticism expressed in connection with rejecting the COVID-19 vaccination. This article presents the findings of ethnographic interviews with people in the centre of society who are critical of the measures. The combination of lifeworld analysis and subjectivation analysis brings to light discourse-related self-positionings and their relevance as well as the shift in social references that took place during the pandemic. The empirically obtained self-positioning as a “knowledgeable minority without a resonance space” reveals the experience of a “we” that presents itself as a reference group in the sense of “small lifeworlds”. The latter’s reconstruction reveals a transformative potential that is likely to be relevant not least with view to the interventionist policies that are to be expected in tackling the climate crisis.
Keywords
ImpfskepsisWissenschaftsskepsisLebensweltanalytische
EthnographieInterpretative SubjektivierungsanalyseKulturen der IgnoranzTransformation
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Language
German [deu]
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Title
Berliner Journal für Soziologie
Volume
34
ISSN
0863-1808
Issued
2024
From page
403
To page
441
Publication
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Version type
Date issued
2024
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