Article
Everyday Narratives of Resistance and Reconfigurations of Political Protest after the Pandemic — Editors’ Introduction Title
Social Sciences
(2023)
Abstract
Perhaps one of the most demanding challenges of the arrival of the COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 was the extent to which it arrived on top of a series of existing global crises. These were related to austerity measures after the global recession; historically high levels of refugee-related movement; the climate emergency; and crucially for us as political psychologists, the development of seemingly unstoppable conditions of rising populism, anti-politics, anti-democracy, increased authoritarian policing, and civil restrictions on protest. The central question which brings together the contributing authors and editors of this Special Issue on narratives of resistance in everyday life is whether features of this pandemic context, its social restrictions, the grand narratives of cross-border cooperation such as gene sequencing and vaccine development, and newfound narratives of togetherness would initiate a reconfiguration of political protest. Does the experience of the pandemic create the opportunity for citizens to develop more equitable worlds, to revisit our priorities, and to realize what counts?
Keywords
- Covid 19,
- Narratives,
- Resistance,
- Post-Covid
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer July 26, 2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12080427
Citation Information
Paul W Nesbitt-Larking, Molly Andrews and Kesi Mahendran. "Everyday Narratives of Resistance and Reconfigurations of Political Protest after the Pandemic — Editors’ Introduction Title" Social Sciences Vol. 12 Iss. 8 (2023) p. 1 - 10 ISSN: 1524-9220 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul_nesbitt-larking/75/