Archiving the Pandemic
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Grassroots movements can rise during this crisis – Italy’s Sardines group shows how
Laura Spinney
The Guardian
Overview
Despite the restrictions and conditioning on demonstrating during the current crisis, is it possible to find forms of collective action capable of instigating and promoting social mobilisation? From the actions of the Sardines movement to promote and sustain cultural practices in Italy, and from the rescue of the experience and impact of social movements linked to the cause of independence in India during the pneumonic flu pandemic of 1918, the author defends the importance of social movements in mobilising as response to crises and the invention of new forms of solidarity and liberating intervention.
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