Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, progressive social movements have been engaged in an incredibly intense period of contestation. Confronted with the unprecedented extent of the crisis, the current wave of mobilization brought together both older and newer actors, bridging generations and...

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Published in:Social movement studies 2024-11, Vol.23 (6), p.738-755
Main Authors: Della Porta, Donatella, Lavizzari, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
care
COVID-19
Crises
Diffusion
framing
health rights
Health services
Innovations
Italy
Mobilization
Organizational communication
Pandemics
Progressive social movements
Resistance
Social activism
Social justice
Social movements
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Summary:Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, progressive social movements have been engaged in an incredibly intense period of contestation. Confronted with the unprecedented extent of the crisis, the current wave of mobilization brought together both older and newer actors, bridging generations and movement sectors, building on past experiences of previous mobilizations while also innovating in important ways. The Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to contextualize the role of past mobilizations in contemporary struggles, singling out continuities and innovation in the forms of resistance, collective frames, and organizational models. This paper focuses on the framing of health rights and analyzes the emergence of care as a bridging frame in the movement campaigns developed during the Covid-19 crisis. In examining the processes of cross-temporal diffusion, it considers the legacy of the Global Justice Movement and its offspring in the current mobilization in Italy. Through the analysis of key documents produced by social movements triangulated with in-depth interviews with activists, we observe the ways in which some collective frames migrate from past mobilizations to new ones, and are adapted through the reactivation of old organizational networks and the emergence of new organizations.
ISSN:1474-2837
1474-2829
DOI:10.1080/14742837.2022.2134109