Mobilizing during COVID-19

Social Movements in Times of Crisis

AvCristina Flesher Fominaya,Priska Daphi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book showcases cutting-edge research on protest and mobilization dynamics during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic posed significant challenges for social movements while simultaneously triggering impactful mobilizations centered on the origins, policies, and politics of the pandemic.Through a rich analysis of social movement dynamics, the book offers insights into COVID-specific protests and explores how global crises can reshape mobilization at local, national, and transnational levels. It highlights how crises can exacerbate polarization but also foster new alliances rooted in solidarity and mutual aid. The collected articles examine three key dimensions of mobilization during the pandemic: anti-lockdown protests, the legacies and innovations of solidarity activism, and the challenges and opportunities faced by existing movements. Drawing on case studies from four continents—Europe, America, Asia, and Australia—the book employs diverse methodologies and spans ideological orientations from far-right to progressive movements.This book is an essential resource for students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of sociology, political science, social movement studies, and global studies. It will also appeal to activists and policymakers interested in understanding the dynamics of protest and mobilization during times of crisis.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-13
Mått:174 x 246 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041335443

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Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is Editor in Chief of Social Movement Studies journal and a founding editor of Interface Journal. She has published widely on social movements, democracy, politics, and movement parties, including two monographs: Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (2020) and Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020) and several edited books.Priska Daphi is Professor of Sociology at Giessen University, Germany and Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies. Her research explores conflicts about globalization, migration, climate change and peace with a particular interest in social movements, civil society, and collective memory.Eduardo Romanos is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). He has previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Trento, as a Juan de la Cierva Fellow at the Universidad Pública de Navarra, and as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the UCM.

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Introduction: Mobilizing during COVID-19: social movements in times of crisis 1. ‘Institutions of governance are all corrupted’: anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces 2. Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook 3. Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic 4. Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic 5. Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic 6. Re-thinking solidarity movements as infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: insights from Athens 7. Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study 8. Did the pandemic spread populism? comparative study on the transformations of citizen movements in Chile and Hong Kong 9. Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression 10. ‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand 11. The compounded2 nature of the Covid pandemic on survivors of sexual violence