Coronavirus, Crisis and Culture

An examination of policing, protest, and rights during the 2020 pandemic.

Stuart Price is Professor of Media and Political Discourse at De Montfort University. Ben Harbisher is a senior lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Introduction: Public Policy, Protest and COVID-19 Ben Harbisher Chapter 1: The Free Press under Attack: Police Attacks on theMedia at the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests during the COVID-19 Pandemic Rhon Teruelle Chapter 2: The Bureaucratisation of Civil Disobedience: What Looks Like Order and What Looks Like Anarchy? Simon Stevens Chapter 3: Grassroots Mobilisation against the Politics of Hate: The Case of Sardine in Italy Emiliana De Blasio and Donatella Selva Chapter 4: 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 Chapter 5: The Death of a Movement?: COVID-19 and the Anti-CAA Protests in India Juhi Jotwani and Shubhda Arora Chapter 6: When Urban Spaces Sleep, Virtual Activities and Protests Emerge through Social Media: The Cultural Sector in Spain during the COVID-19 Mandatory Lockdown Jennif