[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Science & Popular Culture (Special Issue: 'Vaccine Hesitancy')

Call for Papers


Journal of Science & Popular CultureSpecial Issue: ‘Vaccine Hesitancy’


Abstract deadline: 28 February 2022

Submission deadline: 30 June 2022


Full CFP here:

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/63826/1/JSPC_CfP_Jan22.pdf 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/63826/1/JSPC_CfP_Jan22.pdf>


Opposition to vaccination is nothing new, with the practice prompting 
public concern from its very inception. Various debates over vaccination 
have taken place since, driven not by scientific disputes over evidence 
but rather by a range of cultural, political and social motivations. 
Opposition to vaccination is deceptively varied and entails a range of 
claims including the infamously inaccurate autism/vaccine connection 
which has been dubbed ‘the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 
years’ (Flaherty 2011) and ‘one of the deadliest conspiracy theories of 
the modern era’ (The Atlantic 2020).


Cited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the top ten 
global health threats of 2019, vaccine hesitancy has become a prominent 
and dangerous form of science denial. The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic 
that began the following year only gave the public debates greater 
significance and urgency, especially as one core response has been to 
rely on vaccines and vaccination as a solution. Vaccine hesitancy has 
been usefully reframed as a matter of mistrust rather than 
misinformation (Goldenberg 2021), thus it is more than a science 
communication issue – vaccine hesitancy is rooted in and spread through 
cultural perceptions of science and modern medicine.


Vaccine hesitancy is one of the most immediately pressing global issues 
where science and popular culture intimately entwine and this special 
issue seeks to provide new insights on vaccine hesitancy by examining 
how, where and why these attitudes manifest as a part of contemporary 
popular culture.


Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Cultural history of vaccine hesitancy

• Social media and vaccine hesitancy

• Representations of vaccination and vaccine hesitancy in fiction

• Celebrity opposition or promotion of vaccination


We welcome expressions of interest comprised of an abstract (around 250 
words) along with a bio (up to 150 words) by 28 February 2022. Authors 
of successful abstracts will be notified by 31 March, with full papers 
due 30 June. Publication of the special issue is planned for late 2022.


Articles should be a minimum of 6000 words (not including notes and 
references).

Shorter pieces can range from 1000–3000 words.


To submit a proposal visit:

www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-science-popular-culture 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-science-popular-culture>

or email:

(drstevengil /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(drstevengil /at/ gmail.com)>


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