Changing repertoires of mobilization: How forms of action have shifted during the pandemic

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has both exacerbated existing social polarizations and appears to have created new ones, giving rise to new forms of action addressing the measures taken to fight the global threat to public health. Current waves of Anti-mask movements, demonstrations and mobilizations in defense of businesses and freedom of movement, for example, indicate that new tensions - or new expressions of existing ones - have come into play around the theme of the winners and losers of the pandemic redistribution of social, economic, and political power. Furthermore, the shift towards digital ways of interaction has also deeply remoulded the ways in which mobilisation, contention, and protest is organised. In this panel, we ask how repertoires of action have shifted, and which new forms of movement(s), protest, and participation arise.

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