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Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados Paperback - 2022

by Charles, Nicole

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  • Title Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
  • Author Charles, Nicole
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2022-02-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1478017635.G
  • ISBN 9781478017639 / 1478017635
  • Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.44 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Health and race - Barbados, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021013191
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.911

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In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer in the Caribbean, many Afro-Barbadians chose not to immunize their daughters. In Suspicion, Nicole Charles reframes Afro-Barbadian vaccine refusal from a question of hesitancy to one of suspicion. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, black feminist theory, transnational feminist studies and science and technology studies, Charles foregrounds Afro-Barbadians' gut feelings and emotions and the lingering trauma of colonial and biopolitical violence. She shows that suspicion, far from being irrational, is a fraught and generative affective orientation grounded in concrete histories of mistrust of government and coercive medical practices foisted on colonized peoples. By contextualizing suspicion within these longer cultural and political histories, Charles troubles traditional narratives of vaccine hesitancy while offering new entry points into discussions on racialized biopolitics, neocolonialism, care, affect, and biomedicine across the Black diaspora.

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

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  • Choice, 11/01/2022, Page 0

About the author

Nicole Charles is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies in Culture and Media, University of Toronto, Mississauga.