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The Role of the Body in Pandemic Geographies of Encounter: Anti-Restriction Protesters Between Collective Action and Political Violence
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Abstract This article looks at public anti-restriction protests by framing public space as a vital component of urban life. It argues that the body is rarely introduced as a scale of spatial analysis and usually plays a more prominent role in the subfields of social movement or public space studies, which of... mehr
This article looks at public anti-restriction protests by framing public space as a vital component of urban life. It argues that the body is rarely introduced as a scale of spatial analysis and usually plays a more prominent role in the subfields of social movement or public space studies, which often tend to focus on the transformative and emancipatory side of urban encounters. By integrating a corporeal perspective, the article aims at understanding how the body transforms political passions into individual agency and collective action. Focusing on the Covid-19-crisis-related protests, particularly the anti-restriction protests, the study examines from different angles how a socially heterogeneous group consisting of both radicals and sceptics joined together, in anger, in an atypical coalition concerning state interventions in their very personal spaces. Based on a literature review of secondary sources on anti-restriction protests and an empirical analysis of media coverage of a key event in Vienna, the study identifies a gap in the theorisation of ambivalent geographies of encounter whose impacts range between collective action and political violence. To frame our key hypothesis, considering the body as a scale in spatial analysis is needed for future socio-spatial research to grasp new and pressing urban phenomena of social change. By bridging empirical observation, methodological considerations and conceptual reflection, this article contributes to an understanding of social change through less romanticised modes of analysis of geographies of encounter with a particular take on embodied space.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
öffentlicher Raum; politische Gewalt; soziale Bewegung; sozialer Wandel; Epidemie; Protestbewegung
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Covid-19; anti-restriction protests; embodied space; libertarian authoritarianism
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 107-118
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 4
Heftthema
Improvisation, Conviviality, and Conflict in Everyday Encounters in Public Space
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)