#HASTalks: Acceleration, contestation, and interconnection: “Vaccine nationalism” through a global lens

#HASTalks is a seminar series curated by The Department of Health, Aging & Society at McMaster University.

Y. Rachel Zhou, Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, will offer a contextualized understanding of vaccine nationalism by attending to the complex relationships between COVID-19 and globalization.

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The present trend of “vaccine nationalism” – the mindset and act of gaining preferential access to newly developed vaccines by individual countries (higher-income countries, in practice) – raises questions about nationalist approaches to the global public health crisis. In this presentation, Dr. Zhou contends that exploring vaccine nationalism as a problem that cuts across multiple sites of globalization – in terms of geopolitics, technocentrism, institutional inadequacy, global consciousness, sense of hierarchy, and time-space relations, for example – sheds light on the contentious politics of this global health crisis and, in turn, opens up theoretical perspectives and discursive spaces for understandings of globalization processes, in which both multifaceted inequalities and transplanetary solidarity have become unprecedentedly sophisticated and urgent.

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