Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19 : : crisis, solidarity and change in a global pandemic / / edited by Breno M. Bringel, Geoffrey Pleyers.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bringel, Breno M.,; Pleyers, Geoffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Briston University Press,, 2022.; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages)

"The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bri...

Table of Contents

• Introduction - Breno Bringel & Geoffrey Pleyers
• Part 1: COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States
• Chapter 1. Corona Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience, and Democracy - Pauli Huotari and Teivo Teivainen
• Chapter 2. Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis - Jean De Munck
• Chapter 3. Universal Social Protection Floors: a Joint Responsibility - Michelle Bachelet, Olivier de Schutter and Guy Ryder
• Chapter 4. From Government's Policies to Labour Activism in Indonesia - Michelle Ford
• Chapter 5. Harmoniously Denied: China's Censorship on COVID-19 - Joy Y. Zhang
• Chapter 6. State Repression in the Philippines During COVID-19 and Beyond - Leanne Sajor
• Chapter 7. Normality Was the Problem - Ilan Bizberg
• Part 2: Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities
• Chapter 8. Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tell us About Contemporary U.S. - Bandana Purkayastha
• Chapter 9. The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility - Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré
• Chapter 10. Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being - Montserrat Sagot
• Chapter 11. COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro - FASE Team Rio de Janeiro
• Chapter 12. Generational Inequalities in Argentina's Working-class Neighbourhoods - Pablo Vommaro
• Chapter 13. Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities - Nicolás Arata
• Chapter 14. Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium - Stéphanie Cassilde
• Chapter 15. Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity During the Pandemic? - Supurna Bannerjee Part 3: Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance in a Global Pandemic
• Chapter 16. Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic - Donatella della Porta
• Chapter 17. COVID-19 and the Re-configuration of the Social Movements Landscape - Sabrina Zajak
• Chapter 18. Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto - Lesley Wood
• Chapter 19. Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK - Anastasia Kavada
• Chapter 20. 'Solidarity, Not Charity': Emotions as Cultural Challenge of Grassroots Activism - Tommaso Gravante and Alice Poma
• Chapter 21. Self-reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: hopes from India's margins - Ashish Kothari
• Chapter 22. Social Movements and Self-reliance: Community Mobilisation in South Africa - Kate Alexander
• Chapter 23. Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance in New York City - John Krinsky and Hillary Caldwell
• Part 4: "The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution": Protest Movements in the Pandemic
• Chapter 24. "Defund the Police:" Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the U.S. - Nara Roberta Silva
• Chapter 25. A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic - Alexandra Kassir
• Chapter 26. Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers' Strike in a Pandemic - Chris Chan and Ana Tsui
• Chapter 27. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: a Return to Authoritarianism After the Revolutions? - Kamal Lahbib
• Chapter 28. The French Strike Movement: Keeping up the Struggle in Times of Covid-19 - Clément Petitjean
• Part 5: Critical Thinking and Emerging Theoretical Challenges
• Chapter 29. Coronavirus, Risk and Social Change - José Maurício Domingues
• Chapter 30. Challenges to Critical Thinking: Social Life and the Pandemic - Kathya Araujo
• Chapter 31. A Sociology for a Post-COVID-19 Society - Sari Hanafi
• Chapter 32. The Paradox of Disturbance: Africa and the Coronavirus - Elísio Macamo
• Chapter 33. We Are All mortal: From the Empty Signifier to the Open Nature of History - Rita Laura Segato
• Chapter 34. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Care - Karina Batthyány
• Part VI. Post-Pandemic Transitions and Futures in Contention
• Chapter 35. Global Chaos and the New Geopolitics of Power and of Resistances - Breno Bringel
• Chapter 36. Denialism, 'Gattopardism' and Transitionism - Boaventura de Sousa Santos
• Chapter 37. Coronavirus, the Gift and Post-neoliberal Scenarios - Paulo Henrique Martins
• Chapter 38. Post-Pandemic Transitions in a Civilizational Perspective - Arturo Escobar
• Chapter 39. The World That is Coming: Pandemic, Movements and Change - Geoffrey Pleyers.