COVID-19 and Similar Futures
Pandemic Geographies
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Geographies of the Rural and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rural spaces and places are usually characterised by low population densities and remoteness from urban centres, where services and facilities are concentrated. Within this largely functional context, there is...
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Why Green and Blue Spaces Matter More Than Ever
COVID-19 has focused attention on the importance of green and blue spaces globally. Research on green and blue spaces and their value to health and well-being have been central to recent work by medical and he...
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#thenewnormal and the Pathological: Rethinking Human–Virus Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
At the centre of response to the COVID-19 epidemic are multiple uncertainties about the relationship between COVID-19 and its human hosts. Drawing on the work of Georges Canguilhem, this chapter explores how t...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter describes the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic, and international responses to it, to date. It describes some of the key spatial features of these developments and so makes the case ...
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Art-Spaces
The severe constraint on the spaces for everyday life in the United Kingdom, from the lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus and its attendant health risks, generates other risks to wellbeing as the pos...
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Children and Families
The United Kingdom (UK) has one of the highest per capita death rates from COVID-19. Initial policy responses moved from the lambasted, but all too quickly forgotten, ‘herd immunity’ approach announced by the ...
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Non-representational Approaches to COVID-19
Through a performative and speculative style of writing, this chapter develops the ways in which non-representational theories might provide purchase in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, we present two...
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Disease Ecology
Disease ecology combines methods from quantitative ecological modeling, such as those used to explore population dynamics, evolutionary processes, and systems thinking, with quantified measures of transmission...
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Understanding the Importance of a Gendered Analysis of COVID-19
COVID-19 travels along existing lines of inequality, gender being one of these major fault lines. We refer to gender as the social relations of power that operate to build hierarchies between differently embod...
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Health Service Capacities, Responses and Practice
The vast majority of scholars who focus on health services explore ‘normal’ times, with long-standing issues which often change rather slowly. Much used words such as ‘crisis’ and ‘disaster’ are arguably overu...
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Setting a Death Trap: International Political Economy, COVID-19 Response and the Plight of Central American Migrants
This chapter begins by describing international political economy as a broad theoretical approach in human geography and the types of issues it sheds light on. In particular, we focus on its deployment in our ...
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Participatory Research By/For the Precariously Housed in a Time of COVID-19
In light of the rapidly unfolding consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic among the precariously housed community of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, we offer some reflections drawn from an ongoing activist r...
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Geographies of (Domestic) Alcohol Consumption
Recent work in this discipline and allied fields has helped to elucidate the significance of alcohol and other drugs (Duff, Soc Cult Geogr 13(2):145–159, 2012; Moreno and Wilton, Using space: critical geograph...
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Resilience, Risk, and Policymaking
This chapter examines the concept of resilience and its increasing application within policy over the last decade, and its potential utility in re-framing policy in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. While emerg...
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Eight Centuries of Epidemic and Pandemic Control
This paper outlines the historical development of approaches to the geographical control of infectious diseases that have relevance today for interrupting the spatial transmission of COVID-19. Lockdown, isolat...
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COVID-19 and Health Professionals: Recommitting to a Global Health Agenda
This chapter focuses on the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic poses for health professionals and the concurrent challenges for geographical scholarship on them as a group. Without health workers there is n...
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Textures of an Epidemic: On the Necessity of Qualitative Methods in Making Better Pandemic Futures
Numbers predominate in an infectious disease outbreak: the number of total cases, the number of new cases, the number of dead. These are important; people want to know where the virus seems to be headed and ho...
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Mobility Is Dead: Post-pandemic Planning as an Opportunity to Prioritize Sustainability and Accessibility
This chapter reflects upon the challenges and opportunities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to everyday mobility. I make the argument here that in a world where (more public) forms of everyday mobil...
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Maintaining Wellbeing During and After COVID-19
Across the world, COVID-19 has had profound implications for individual, household, and community wellbeing. This chapter outlines a selection of these impacts. It then examines how governments, voluntary and ...
