What Makes Vaccines Social?
Some people are wary of or may refuse vaccines. Social scientists are part of a movement to encourage self-empowerment to end the current pandemic.
Policy
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Waterloo-Redfern and the Racism Rooted in Cities
Protestors toppling statues spur an anthropologist to look at the underlying urban politics that reproduce colonial and racist systems in Australia’s Waterloo-Redfern housing plans.
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Wildfire Archaeology and the Burning American West
Archaeologists in New Mexico are pioneering surprising research methods—involving tree rings, pottery, and blasts of light—to explain why wildfire suppression doesn’t work.
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The Public Problem With Counterterrorism
Ethnographic research with people who have survived terrorist attacks and with those who protect the public reveals how little these two groups understand each other.
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The Dead Must Be Counted
An unknown number of people who die from COVID-19, like migrants who die during perilous journeys, are left out of governments' official death counts.
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Communities Grapple With Exposure to “Forever Chemicals”
Toxic chemicals known as PFAS pollute the water at more than 2,000 sites across the U.S.—and reside in the bodies of most Americans. How do residents cope with contamination?