Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19 : Crisis, Solidarity and Change in a Global Pandemic / Breno Bringel, Geoffrey Pleyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bringel, Breno, author.

Pleyers, Geoffrey, author.

Series:

COVID-19 collection.

COVID-19 collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Political aspects.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Social Movements and Politics in a Global Pandemic

Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Bringing together leading authors in the sociology and social movement fields from all continents, this unique book explores both the global echoes of the pandemic and the different local and national responses adopted by different actors.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A Global Dialogue on the Pandemic

COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States

COVID-19 Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience and Democracy

Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis

Universal Social Protection Floors: A Joint Responsibility

Labour Activism and State Repression in Indonesia

Harmoniously Denied: China's Censorship on COVID-19

State Repression in the Philippines during COVID-19 and Beyond

Normality Was the Problem

Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities

Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tells Us about the Contemporary US

The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility

Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being

COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Generational Inequalities in Argentina's Working-Class Neighbourhoods

Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities

Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium

Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity during the Pandemic

Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance during COVID-19

Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic

COVID-19 and the Reconfiguration of the Social Movements Landscape

Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto

Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK

'Solidarity, Not Charity': Emotions as Cultural Challenge for Grassroots Activism

Self-Reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: Hopes from India's Margins

Social Movements and Self-Reliance: Community Mobilization in South Africa

Resilience, Reworking and Resistance in New York City

'The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution': Protest Movements in the Pandemic

'Defund the Police': Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the US

A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic

Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers' Strikes in a Pandemic

Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: A Return to Authoritarianism after the Revolutions?

The French Strike Movement: Keeping up the Struggle in Times of COVID-19

Critical Thinking and Emerging Theoretical Challenges

COVID-19, Risk and Social Change

Challenges to Critical Thinking: Social Life and the Pandemic

A Sociology for a Post-COVID-19 Society

The Paradox of Disturbance: Africa and COVID-19

We Are All Mortal: From the Empty Signifier to the Open Nature of History

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Care

Post-Pandemic Transitions and Futures in Contention

Global Chaos and the New Geopolitics of Power and Resistances

Denialism, 'Gattopardism' and Transitionism

COVID-19, the Gift and Post-Neoliberal Scenarios

Post-Pandemic Transitions in a Civilizational Perspective

The World That Is Coming: Pandemic, Movements and Change

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Bristol University Press, viewed February 20, 2023).

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ISBN:

1-5292-1725-3

OCLC:

1334888533