Civil disobedience as a form of emergency politics - EXPeditions

Civil disobedience as a form of emergency politics

by Jonathan White
Jonathan White, Deputy Head of the European Institute and Professor in Politics at the London School of Economics, examines civil disobedience.
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  • Key point 1
    The story of 2020 can be seen as one of emergency politics and anti-emergency politics.
  • Key point 2
    In many countries with populist leaders, there is a desire to frame choices as an extension of volition and to reject a politics of necessity.
  • Key point 3
    The climate change crisis could give rise to an alternative emergency politics based in social movements.

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