ABSTRACT
The very recent socio-economic, political, individual, and societal changes fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate change, rise of hate crime, decline in mental health, and other related factors have set a scene for a permacrisis, which we argue could be construed as a perma-liminal sphere of our daily lives. Those precarious conditions increasingly drew the public, media, and political focus on dissent and its manifestation, as the UK saw a significant upsurge in unionised industrial action and high-profile protest actions. We investigate events of dissent through an association between critical event studies and the Advocacy Coalition Framework approach, examining the mediated representation of events of dissent and protest and the impact of that mediation on activists and their activism. We explore how the movements negotiate the use of various media platforms as a means of articulating dissent, the critical (relational) geography of Doreen Massy, and a consideration of actant in Latour’s actor–network theory.
