Covid-19 has exposed the limitations of current social protection systems and elicited a variety of responses from civil society. This article attempts to characterise emergent agency during Covid-19 by drawing on a dataset of 200 case studies and texts on how human agency has shifted during Covid-19. The overarching finding is that while the pandemic has disrupted civil society, this disruption has also spawned the emergence of new actors, issues, coalitions, and repertoires. Larger patterns in emergent agency include civil society’s accelerated adoption of digital platforms, the critical role of communities and informal networks in Covid-19 response, the increased reliance on coalition-building, new opportunities for civic action around structural inequalities exposed by the pandemic, and the reshaping of citizen–state relations.

Covid-19暴露了当前社会保护体系的局限性，并引起了民间社会的各种回应。本文试图利用200个案例研究的数据集和Covid-19期间人类代理如何变化的文本来描述Covid-19期间的紧急代理。总体发现是，尽管大流行已经破坏了公民社会，但这种破坏也催生了新的参与者，问题，联盟和保留曲目。新兴机构的更大模式包括民间社会加速采用数字平台，社区和非正式网络在Covid-19应对中的关键作用，对联盟建设的依赖增加，围绕大流行病造成的结构性不平等采取公民行动的新机会，以及重塑公民与国家关系。