Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors ix
4. Introduction: A Global Dialogue on the Pandemic 1
5. COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States
6. COVID-19 Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience and Democracy 17
7. Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis 26
8. Universal Social Protection Floors: A Joint Responsibility 34
9. Labour Activism and State Repression in Indonesia 38
10. Harmoniously Denied: China’s Censorship on COVID-19 44
11. State Repression in the Philippines during COVID-19 and Beyond 52
12. Normality Was the Problem 60
13. Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities
14. Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tells Us about the Contemporary US 69
15. The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility 78
16. Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being 86
17. COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro 92
18. Generational Inequalities in Argentina’s Working-Class Neighbourhoods 99
19. Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities 107
20. Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium 115
21. Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity during the Pandemic 120
22. Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance during COVID-19
23. Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic 131
24. COVID-19 and the Reconfiguration of the Social Movements Landscape 134
25. Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto 141
26. Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK 147
27. ‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: Emotions as Cultural Challenge for Grassroots Activism 155
28. Self-Reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: Hopes from India’s Margins 163
29. Social Movements and Self-Reliance: Community Mobilization in South Africa 168
30. Resilience, Reworking and Resistance in New York City 177
31. ‘The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution’: Protest Movements in the Pandemic
32. ‘Defund the Police’: Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the US 189
33. A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic 195
34. Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers’ Strikes in a Pandemic 202
35. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: A Return to Authoritarianism after the Revolutions? 209
36. The French Strike Movement: Keeping up the Struggle in Times of COVID-19 214
37. Critical Thinking and Emerging Theoretical Challenges
38. COVID-19, Risk and Social Change 225
39. Challenges to Critical Thinking: Social Life and the Pandemic 233
40. A Sociology for a Post-COVID-19 Society 240
41. The Paradox of Disturbance: Africa and COVID-19 246
42. We Are All Mortal: From the Empty Signifier to the Open Nature of History 255
43. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Care 264
44. Post-Pandemic Transitions and Futures in Contention
45. Global Chaos and the New Geopolitics of Power and Resistances 271
46. Denialism, ‘Gattopardism’ and Transitionism 280
47. COVID-19, the Gift and Post-Neoliberal Scenarios 285
48. Post-Pandemic Transitions in a Civilizational Perspective 291
49. The World That Is Coming: Pandemic, Movements and Change 299
50. Index 308