The future of vaccine techno-politics: outcomes and lessons of the covid-19 pandemic

This proposal follows up the new book Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines, on which the conveners collaborated. The book focuses on public sector vaccine production in different countries from the nineteenth century onward. It ends with a brief sketch of the discussions and re-considerations provoked by two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. As the first effective Covid- 19 vaccines became available, intense disputes and negotiations arose over monopolies on vaccine production and access to vaccine technologies, unequal global distribution of vaccines, and seemingly widespread distrust of new vaccines