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

• Autore: Bringel Breno
• Pubblicazione: Bristol, UK : , : Bristol University Press, , 2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.484
• Soggetto topico: Social movements - Political aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): PleyersGeoffrey
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Social Movements and Politics in a Global Pandemic; Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19
• Titolo autorizzato: Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19
• ISBN: 1-5292-1725-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910583601103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: COVID-19 collection.