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Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising. This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - 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 Trere 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 - Nicolas Arata Chapter 14. Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium - Stephanie 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 - Clement Petitjean Part 5: Critical Thinking and Emerging Theoretical Challenges Chapter 29. Coronavirus, Risk and Social Change - Jose Mauricio 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 - Elisio 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 Batthyany 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
