Medical emergencies are staple features of today's 24/7 culture of breaking news. As politics
becomes increasingly stylised, audiences fragmented, and established knowledge claims …

Right‐wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political
systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This …

Lack of trust is central in becoming hesitant towards vaccines, but research on vaccine
hesitancy lacks detailed examination of the processes of losing trust. Based on ethnographic …

Conspiracy theories (evidence-free, improbable narratives about powerful agents conspiring
to harm people) circulated widely during the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) …

Vaccine-hesitancy and political populism are positively associated across Europe: those
countries in which their citizens present higher populist attitudes are those that also have …

As the COVID-19 pandemic has sadly shown, the decision against vaccination is often
linked to political ideologies and populist messages among specific segments of the …

Populist parties enjoy stable support in various European countries. The literature on the
rise of populism argues that this support especially increases in times of crises. Surprisingly …

Background: While support for the idea of fostering healthy societies is longstanding, there is
a gap in the literature on what they are, how to beget them, and how experience might …

This volume stems from a generous invitation from Janet Kim, senior editor at Springer.
Janet approached me at the 2018 European Public Health Conference in Ljubljana …

Politics is ubiquitous in public health, but vaccines had never been weaponized to instill
distrust to gain political advantage. In pandemic and post-pandemic scenarios, populist …