Pandemic protests: Creatively using the freedom of assembly during COVID-19

Buyse, Antoine

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“…People shifted from offline, physical locations to online platforms when physical protest was too difficult, risky, or completely prohibited due to the pandemic. As a result, people around the world creatively used their existing human rights for a better future [7].…”

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“…People all across the world have found new and inventive methods to make their views heard, whether they do it individually or collectively, offline or online. As a consequence, activists have converted freedom of expression and assembly into living rights in the aftermath of this long-lasting pandemic, in a nod to human rights treaties as living instruments [7]. Crowds had been dispersed as of the year 2020 in order to battle a pandemic.…”

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Rights of Online Peaceful Assembly in Malaysia

Ng¹,

Lau²,

Chin³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Law and Digitalization (ICLD 2022)

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In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, Malaysia imposed the Movement Control Order ("MCO") in order to contain and restrain the spread of the virus. Even with the recent announcement that Malaysia is moving towards the endemic phase, life would never be the same as how it was in the pre-COVID era. As a result of this, the article discusses on the viability of exercising freedom of peaceful assembly in the context of online platforms in view of Article 10(1)(b) of the Malaysian Federal Constitution, the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012, Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the Human Rights Committee's drafting of General Comment No.37 on Article 21. This paper will consider the need for a specific legislation governing freedom of online peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and its relation to freedom of peaceful assembly online, the characteristics of online peaceful assembly, and the challenges to the exercise of the enjoyment of freedom of peaceful assembly and association online.

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Rights of Online Peaceful Assembly in Malaysia

Ng¹,

Lau²,

Chin³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Law and Digitalization (ICLD 2022)

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Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres

Walsh

2024

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This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary, health and social care services, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre itself.

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Far-Right Digital Activism During and Beyond the Pandemic

Volk

2022

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While digital activism has formed part of social movements’ contentious repertoires for at least two decades, online forms of protest have risen to unprecedented importance across the globe in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article studies continuities and shifts in digital activism before, during and beyond the pandemic, drawing from a case study conducted of the Dresden-based far-right social movement organisation PEGIDA. Seeking to shed new light on the role of the internet and social media for sustained far-right mobilisation, I explore long-term trends in PEGIDA’s digital activism since its emergence in 2014. To this aim, I draw from an original patchwork ethnographic dataset generated through participant observation of demonstrations in Dresden and digital ethnography in 2019-21 as well as undertaking a thorough literature review. The empirical analysis indicates three key findings: Firstly, the longitudinal perspective reveals that a social movement actor’s digital practices are not bound to one or a few ideal-types, but highly dynamic over time. Secondly, my interpretive-ethnographic lens emphasises the constitutive dimensions of digital activism. Thirdly, the analytical focus on digital activism during the pandemic adds new insights into the relationship between the online and offline worlds of mobilisation. As a whole, this article underscores some of the key advantages of (patchwork) ethnography in relation to other methods in protest research.

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Pandemic protests: Creatively using the freedom of assembly during COVID-19

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Rights of Online Peaceful Assembly in Malaysia

Rights of Online Peaceful Assembly in Malaysia

Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres

Far-Right Digital Activism During and Beyond the Pandemic

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