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Politics, ontology, and uncertainty in the Anthropocene : Insights from Covid vaccination controversies
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
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| Popis | As consensus concerning fundamental principles of governance and definitions of key public concerns in Euro-Atlantic democracies diminishes during prolonged economic, health, environmental, and geopolitical crises due to the fragmentation of information networks, everyday politics becomes ontological. (Blaser & de la Cadena 2018) It is no longer preconditioned by an encounter of different cultural groups in a traditional sense. The issue of democratic handling of ontological differences and uncommons (Blaser & Cadena 2017) thus becomes urgent. Established intellectual reflection of this process often employs concepts of disinformation, misinformation and post-truth. Such an approach is, however, destined to fail in developing symmetric terminology not assuming particular ontology as the right one, and thus in enabling “diplomacy all the way down” (Stengers 2018) that does not a priori exclude some legitimate voices and concerns. The aim of my presentation is to propose a possible direction for such a symmetrical reflection that was developed on the analysis of controversies concerning vaccination as the key solution to the pandemic of Covid-19. Despite taking into account various ways of capitalising on anxieties, the presented solution focuses on legitimate concerns of engaged actors and attempts to bypass marginalising categories like religion, belief, and misinformation to tackle the mobilisation potential of divergent narratives. |
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