Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency: The Protests Against Anti-Contagion

by The Protests Against Anti-Contagion

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Regressive Movements in Times of Emergency by Prof Donatella della Porta, Donatella della Porta Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This volume builds upon social movement studies in the attempt to illuminate the dynamics of these protests in the various steps of their emergency, growth and decline. Publisher Description Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained attention. The first comments often pointed at the heterogeneity of the events, whose participants seemed to belong to different milieus, from the far right to exoteric groups that opposed mainstream medicine, suggesting alternative ones. In reality, in their forms and claims, these protests developed as a regressiveresponse to the health crisis. Conspiracist beliefs--from the politicized QAnon and Great Replacement conspiracies widespread on the far right to the Chemic Trails and 5G ones present in an exoteric milieuthat promoted alternative health practices--were clearly expressed in the slogans and symbols used by the protestors. In different moments in different countries, the contestation of the anti-COVID-19 measures proceeded with picks and ebbs, following the waves of contagion and the related increase in policy measures to curve them. Increasing especially during the vaccination campaigns, they seemed to subside however quite quickly as the COVID-19 virus s

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2024
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780198884309
• Condition: Fine

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