Autore: Lello, Elisa
Titolo: Populismo anti-scientifico o nodi irrisolti della biomedicina? Prospettive a confronto intorno al movimento free vax
Periodico: Rassegna italiana di sociologia
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 479 - Pagina finale: 508

Within the public debate, the interpretation of the movements whichhave recently mobilized in Italy against the extension of mandatorypaediatric vaccines has largely recovered quite obsolete and overcomemodels, as regards the relationship between science and society, as well as on a socio-political plan. Protests have been conceived as meredemonstrations of ignorance and refusal of scientific knowledge, thusbeing assimilated with populism and conspiracy theories while theirdemands have not been considered worth of any attention, let aloneanswers. The article moves between the Sociology of science and thePolitical sociology, relying both on quantitative data on participants tonational demonstrations and on qualitative analysis based on a localcase-study. Results challenge the reliability of those perspectives andpropose an articulated and more nuanced insight of these movements.The proposed interpretation locates them in continuity with the trendswhich are reshaping the patterns of citizenship while at the sametime relating them to some relevant knots deriving from the difficultcoexistence between Western modern biomedicine and post-modernism.The analysis sheds new light on the apparent difficulty in resolving thiscontroversy and on the necessity to elaborate new strategies of inclusion,and not only of communication, in order to face this complex issue.




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