Michael Neuber and Beth Gharrity Gardner: How do social movements move in pandemic contexts? Examining climate justice mobilizations in times of COVID-19

In their lecture from March 10, 2021, Michael Neuber und Beth
Gharrity Gardner addressed the question of how movement
mobilization has shifted in the context of COVID-19. To explore
this issue, they focused on the Fridays for Future climate movement
as their empirical case. The talk reviews key findings on changes
in the social composition, motives and attitudes of protest
participants using new, time series data from surveys collected at
the Global Climate Strikes in 2019 and 2020 in Berlin. Beth
Gharrity Gardner is a research assistant in the unit "Politische
Soziologie und Sozialpolitik" at the Humboldt University Berlin.
Michael Neuber is a visiting scholar at the Department of Social
Movements, Technology, Conflict at the Zentrum Technik und
Gesellschaft, Technische Universität Berlin.