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episode 165: Covid Vaccine Hesitancy in Sweden, with Dr. Mia-Marie Hammarlin
Dr. Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Lund University, shares her research on vaccine hesitancy in Sweden. We discuss the major themes of coronavirus vaccine skepticism on the Swedish online forum Flashback, as well as Dr. Hammarlin's ethnographic research meeting with vaccine hesitant communities.
Here are links to Dr. Hammarlin's research mentioned in the episode:
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Matters of Life and Death (2023)
I bonded with COVID vaccine sceptics over saunas and Mother Earth rituals (2023)
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