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COVID ‐19 Pandemic and Social Unrest: The Social Protest by Other Means. Reflections on the Argentinian Case
Author(s) -
Ferrero Juan Pablo,
Natalucci Ana
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.13211
Subject(s) - pandemic , unrest , covid-19 , context (archaeology) , social unrest , political science , socioeconomic status , space (punctuation) , public space , public sphere , political economy , development economics , sociology , law , politics , geography , economics , demography , virology , population , outbreak , philosophy , architectural engineering , linguistics , archaeology , pathology , engineering , medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
In the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world have implemented exceptional measures aimed at restricting people's mobility or banning public spaces used, among other things, for protest, thus causing the expected regressive effects in the socioeconomic sphere. What happens with social protest when the public space is banned? Does it stop, is it displaced, does it occur in any other form? In this article we present a map of protest in Argentina since the beginning of the pandemic. We conclude that the levels of participation remain high and that, given the features of the protest itself, its claims may be channelled into the institutions.