Lucie Guimier

Geography, Geopolitics – Institut français de géopolitique (Université Paris 8)

Lucie Guimier defended her thesis in 2016; her work focused on the geopolitical stakes of anti-vaccine movements in France and internationally. Winner of the Société de Géographie’s Doctoral Innovation Prize (2017), she specializes in the geopolitics of health, favoring a contextualized approach to public health issues and associated socio-political situations.

In her work on movements of resistance to vaccinations, she places particular emphasis on the determining role of the relationship to politics, a central subject in her view for analyzing and explaining the various movements of rejection of certain vaccinations.