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Coronavirus, Crisis and Culture
Protests, Policing and Mediation during the 2020 Pandemic
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2023
Summary
This volume represents a timely and essential contribution for both scholars and readers of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Whereas the bulk of literary, academic, and investigative coverage of the Pandemic has focussed on factors such as i) maintaining social cohesion, ii) developing a vaccine, iii) fighting fake news, this submission explores the erosion of civil liberties and human rights during the pandemic, the increase of policing and supervisory practices, and the innovative ways in which contemporary social movements have expressed their concerns at the measures governments have put in place.
The volume challenges restrictions placed on freedom of speech, in which contrary opinions to mainstream public discourse have been branded as fake news, disinformation, or conspiratorial. It questions the legitimacy of authoritative voices such as the BBC with regards to the regurgitation of political dogma and the profound lack of investigative reportage therein. The volume examines how new or conventional social movements have responded to the pandemic and how fundamental human and civil rights such as those campaigned for by Black Lives Matter has united people from different backgrounds.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-6109-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-6110-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
278
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
The Free Press under Attack No access Pages 1 - 20
The Bureaucratisation of Civil Disobedience No access Pages 21 - 38
Grassroots Mobilisation against the Politics of Hate No access Pages 39 - 62
Reigniting a Violent Protest Wave No access Pages 63 - 84
The Death of a Movement? No access Pages 85 - 110
When Urban Spaces Sleep, Virtual Activities and Protests Emerge through Social Media No access Pages 111 - 124
Rage against Restrictions on Freedom No access Pages 125 - 150
Public Policy, Protest and COVID-19 No access Pages 151 - 174
Insurrection! The Capitol Riot of January 6, 2021 No access Pages 175 - 198
Distress, Dissent, Control No access Pages 199 - 220
Are Hate Speech and Fake News Contributing to Police Brutality in Nigeria? No access Pages 221 - 236
Constable Dixon and the Lockdown of Dock Green No access Pages 237 - 260
