Sterilizing vaccines or the politics of the womb: Retrospective study of a rumor in Cameroon
Sterilizing vaccines or the politics of the womb: Retrospective study of a rumor in Cameroon
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DOI：
10.1525/maq.2000.14.2.159
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Schmidt-Ehry, B
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作者：
Feldman-Savelsberg, P;Ndonko, FT;Schmidt-Ehry, B
1990 年，有关公共卫生工作者正在注射疫苗对女孩和妇女进行绝育的谣言在喀麦隆各地传开。女学生从窗户跳下逃离疫苗接种小组，疫苗接种运动（全民儿童免疫年的一部分）被中止。本文追溯了这一谣言的起源和发展。谣言理论和对新技术的模糊文化反应揭示了新技术的起源和传播，但既没有解释它的时间也没有解释它的内容。对于这项任务，我们需要研究喀麦隆在殖民疫苗接种运动方面的历史内容，以及民主化运动和经济危机的动荡、避孕政策的同时变化以及对国家及其“霸权计划”的区域不信任的当代背景。借鉴巴亚特的政治思想和怀特对八卦的想法，我们探讨了这一谣言，以诊断当地对全球和国家项目的反应。在这种情况下，这种反应通过对当地生殖能力的威胁这一习语来表达，揭示了当地与全球关系、子宫政治的女性化一面。
In 1990 a rumor that public health workers were administering a vaccine to sterilize girls and women spread throughout Cameroon. Schoolgirls leapt from windows to escape the vaccination teams, and the vaccination campaign (part of the Year of Universal Child Immunization) was aborted This article traces the origin and development of this rumor. Theories of rumor and ambiguous cultural response to new technologies shed some light on its genesis and spread, but explain neither its timing nor its content. For this task we need to examine the historical content of Cameroonian experience with colonial vaccination campaigns and the contemporary contexts of the turmoil of democratization movements and economic crisis, concurrent changes in contraceptive policy, and regional mistrust of the state and its "hegemonic project." Drawing on Bayart's politique du ventre and White's thoughts on gossip, we explore this rumor as diagnostic of local response to global and national projects. This response, expressed in this case through the idiom of threats to local reproductive capacity, reveals a feminine side to local-global relations, a politics of the womb.