Coronavirus, crisis and culture : protests, policing and mediation during the 2020 pandemic / edited by Ben Harbisher and Stuart Price.

Contributor Harbisher, Ben, editor.

ImprintLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Descriptionxiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: public policy, protest and COVID-19 / Ben Harbisher -- The free press under attack: police attacks on the media at the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests during the COVID-19 pandemic / Rhon Teruelle -- The bureaucratisation of civil disobedience: what looks like order and what looks like anarchy? / Simon Stevens -- Grassroots mobilisation against the politics of hate: the case of Sardine in Italy / Emiliana de Blazio and Donatella Selva -- Reigniting a violent protest wave: how the backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 restrictions accelerated radicalisation in a far-right extremist/antifascist protest wave in Portland, Oregon / Leanne C. Serbulo -- The death of a movement?: COVID-19 and the anti-CAA protests in India / Juhi Jotwani and Shebhda Arora -- When urban spaces sleep, virtual activities and protests emerge through social media: the cultural sector in Spain during the COVID-19 mandatory lockdown / Jennifer García Carrizo -- Rage against restrictions on freedom: the use of social media as protest tools by the Spanish radical right in the COVID-19 era / María del Mar Rubio-Hernández, Jorge David Fernández Gómez, Bianca Sánchez-Gutiérrez and Antonio Pineda -- Public policy, protest and COVID-19 / Ben Harbisher -- Insurrection! The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021: temporal development, political hyperbole and the democracy/state conflation / Stuart Price -- Distress, dissent, control: some responses to COVID-19 lockdown measures in Sydney, Australia, 2021 / Tiania Stevens and Jamie Parr -- Are hate speech and fake news contributing to police brutality in Nigeria? A study of the #End-SARS protest / Jennifer Amapamoere Ere-Mendie -- Constable Dixon and the lockdown of Dock Green / Richard Fern.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"An examination of policing, protest, and rights during the 2020 pandemic."-- Provided by publisher.

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