Anti-Vax Discourse in the Context of COVID-19

Local Perspectives with Global Implications

Contributions by Thomas Niehr Contributions by Marek Czyżewski Contributions by Luca Serafini Contributions by Elisa Lello Contributions by Enrico Campo Contributions by Giampietro Gobo Contributions by Niccolò Bertuzzi Contributions by Ingo Warnke Edited by Silvia Bonacchi Edited by Małgorzata Godlewska Edited by Łukasz Kumięga

Book cover: Anti-Vax Discourse in the Context of COVID-19

Extent: 212 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies, German Studies, Medicine

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2025)

ISBN: 9783847118817

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $63.00

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COVID-19 had an enormous impact on society around the globe. By 5th March 2023, when the WHO officially declared the pandemic emergency over, societies affected by it had been profoundly changed. The COVID-19 pandemic not only had medical consequences, but also significant effects related to the mechanisms involved in its discursive construction as a phenomenon of wide significance in various social arenas. The present volume reconstructs this complex discursive phenomenon with examples from Italy, Germany and the USA, and invites critical reflections on the way societies around the globe have faced the extreme crisis sparked by the pandemic.


COVID-19 had an enormous impact on society around the globe. By 5th March 2023, when the WHO officially declared the pandemic emergency over, societies affected by it had been profoundly changed. The COVID-19 pandemic not only had medical consequences, but also significant effects related to the mechanisms involved in its discursive construction as a phenomenon of wide significance in various social arenas. Reaching a highly polarized form, public debate on compulsory vaccination against COVID-19 constituted an essential component of mechanisms not only for stance-taking, for creating opportunities for self- and other-positioning, and for covering discursive positions, but also for subverting existing epistemic orders. The present volume reconstructs this complex discursive phenomenon with examples from Italy, Germany and the USA, and invites critical reflections on the way societies around the globe have faced the extreme crisis sparked by the pandemic.

  • Contributions by Thomas Niehr
  • Contributions by Marek Czyżewski
  • Contributions by Luca Serafini
  • Contributions by Elisa Lello
  • Contributions by Enrico Campo
  • Contributions by Giampietro Gobo
  • Contributions by Niccolò Bertuzzi
  • Contributions by Ingo Warnke
  • Edited by Silvia Bonacchi
  • Edited by Małgorzata Godlewska
  • Edited by Łukasz Kumięga