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Spring in Mitterteich (SiM) - A qualitative analysis of critical positions, epistemic struggles and discursive dynamics

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Marie-Kristin Doebler

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The SiM project seeks to explore and generate deeper understanding of the epistemic struggles during the corona pandemic focusing on doubt, critique and resistance against the political measures taken to 'flatten the curve'. Aiming at a differentiated outlining of what kind of doubt and critique is expressed and expressible against the background of massively intervening political measures during a biomedical emergency the project conducts a case study. It draws on material (social media response, interviews, policy papers, statements of politicians, news coverage) relating to the incidences in the Bavarian town Mitterteich in spring 2020, reconstructing the 'discursive dynamics of doubt and critique' by means of discourse and metaphor analysis.