Politics of Vaccine Nationalism in India: Global and Domestic Implications

IF 1.1 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

FORUM FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/08039410.2021.1918238

N. Chatterjee, Zaad Mahmood, Eleonor Marcussen

引用次数: 20

Abstract

Abstract The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted from finding a cure to acquiring vaccines and organizing vaccination. The race for vaccination has exacerbated tendencies of hoarding, particularly among rich countries, academically expressed as vaccine nationalism. Vaccine nationalism is harmful to the global effort in the fight against the pandemic. India in contrast has been quite generous to its neighbours in sharing vaccines pursuing its own form of vaccine nationalism. The strategy pursued by India can be read as an effort to gloss over the failures in initial pandemic management, to improve diplomatic leverage and reinforce an idiom of nationalism. Such an effort however has potentially harmful effects undermining trust in the vaccine as well as in the government. The politicization of vaccine also has counterproductive outcomes for democratic practices within the country.

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印度疫苗民族主义政治：全球和国内影响

抗击Covid-19大流行的斗争已经从寻找治愈方法转向获取疫苗和组织疫苗接种。疫苗的竞争加剧了囤积的趋势，特别是在富裕国家，学术上称之为疫苗民族主义。疫苗民族主义对全球抗击这一流行病的努力有害。相比之下，印度在与邻国分享疫苗方面相当慷慨，追求自己形式的疫苗民族主义。印度所采取的战略可以被解读为一种努力，旨在掩盖其在初期流行病管理方面的失败，提高外交影响力，并强化民族主义的说法。然而，这种努力有潜在的有害影响，破坏了人们对疫苗和政府的信任。疫苗政治化也会对该国的民主实践产生反作用。

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14.30%

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