Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and Political Opportunities:

Daniel Turillo
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 In the summer of 2020, while mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced an unprecedentedly massive wave of protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement. Given the novelty of this upswell and the lack of a clear precedent thereof, there does not yet exist much scholarly analysis into why and how this movement expanded as significantly as it did or what developmental routes it may take as in the future. My research seeks to remedy this gap by employing the political process theory of social movement activity to interpret how the COVID pandemic increased opportunities for insurgent activity, how Black Lives Matter was in a prime position to take advantage of those opportunities, and how the movement can and should approach its future development to retain the support and leverage it accumulated during the 2020 protests. Through informal qualitative analysis rooted in the political process model, I suggest that COVID led to greater public recognition of institutional maladies in the United States, which Black Lives Matter was able to channel toward protest activity thanks to the low-cost, high-reward membership system inherent in its non-hierarchical structure and tactful use of social media. I then briefly consider different developmental paths that Black Lives Matter may take and assert that carefully implemented attempts at formalization will allow the movement to retain its organizing potential regardless of any volatile external opportunities.
黑人的生命也很重要,2019冠状病毒病和政治机会:
2020年夏天,在新冠肺炎疫情肆虐的美国,“黑人的命也是命”运动掀起了前所未有的大规模抗议浪潮。考虑到这股浪潮的新颖性和缺乏明确的先例,目前还没有太多的学术分析来解释这场运动为什么以及如何如此显著地扩张,或者它未来可能采取什么样的发展路线。我的研究试图通过采用社会运动活动的政治过程理论来解释COVID大流行如何增加叛乱活动的机会,黑人的生命很重要是如何处于有利地位来利用这些机会,以及该运动如何能够而且应该接近其未来的发展,以保持其在2020年抗议活动期间积累的支持和杠杆作用,从而弥补这一差距。通过植根于政治过程模型的非正式定性分析,我认为COVID使公众更加认识到美国的体制性疾病,由于其非等级结构固有的低成本、高回报的会员制度和对社交媒体的巧妙使用,“黑人的命也是命”运动能够将这些疾病引导到抗议活动中。然后,我简要地考虑了“黑人的命也是命”可能采取的不同发展路径,并断言,仔细实施正规化的尝试将使该运动保持其组织潜力,而不管任何不稳定的外部机会。
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