Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19

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 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