Back to Search
Start Over
'We will multiply the fires of resistance': The catalysts of dissent against institutional science and their interplay with refused knowledge communities.
- Source :
- Public Understanding of Science; Jan2023, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p2-19, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
-
Abstract
- Drawing on a 12-month virtual ethnography on the main online spaces of three refused knowledge communities (RKCs) in Italy, this study aims at contributing to the debate on emerging forms of science-related populism from a two-fold perspective. First, we identify and describe the main features and the role played by an understudied figure who we label the 'catalyst of dissent' – a public influencer who does not belong to the scientific community and contributes to the spread of science-related populist narratives within a grassroots ecosystem of resistance to institutional science. Second, our research highlights how RKCs – communities proposing visions of science and medicine denied acceptance or even consideration by institutional science – can appropriate some key resources produced by the catalysts. The analysis focuses on the interplay between the catalysts and three main RKCs during the pandemic crisis in Italy: The No-5G, the Free-Vax, and the 5 Biological Laws communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09636625
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Understanding of Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161130510
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221113524