Societies in Movement: Pandemic Crisis and Prefigurative Responses

Marina Sitrin (author)

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Title	Societies in Movement
Subtitle	Pandemic Crisis and Prefigurative Responses
Contributor	Marina Sitrin (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0448.1.09
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-pandemic-visual-regime-visuality-and-performativity-in-the-covid-19-crisis/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Marina Sitrin
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2023-11-09
Long abstract	This chapter explores the new networks of mutual aid, solidarity and care that have emerged around the world in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and through describing them, often using the voices of those organizing on the ground, argues that within these day-to-day relationships of care we see not so much social movements as traditionally understood, but rather societies in movement, within which are the seeds of a new society. This phenomenon is linked to the past twenty years of horizontal, autonomous, and affective (care and trust based) forms of organizing, which has been striving to prefigure a new society in the shell of the old. As with many prefigurative movements, as will be described so as to better locate this global rise in mutual aid, they generally do not come from people organizing with a plan to change society or even people who have been involved in political organizing, but arise from necessity, and in that need find that the most useful—and most empowering and enjoyable—way of organizing is horizontally, sharing power and creating space for equal participation and mutual care.
Page range	pp. 217–236
Print length	20 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	COVID-19 mutual care solidarity autonomy empowerment protest

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Marina Sitrin

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associate professor of sociology at Binghamton University

Marina Sitrin is an associate professor of sociology at Binghamton University. She writes about, and is participant in, societies in movement. Her work specifically looks at new forms of social organization, such as autogestión, horizontalidad, prefigurative politics, and new affective social relationships. She grounds much of her work in ethnography, oral history, and sociological narrative. She is the coeditor with Colectiva Sembrar of Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID 19 Crisis (Pluto Press, 2020); author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press, 2006), and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012); coauthor of They Can’t Represent US! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso, 2014); and author of the forthcoming The New Revolutions from Social Movements to Societies in Movement.