A changing sense of place: Geography and COVID‐19

Bissell, David

doi:10.1111/1745-5871.12465

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“…Second, spatial interactions between neighbouring areas or, more technically, the existence of spatial correlation/dependence, should be included in the model; this issue is core because the geographical location of territories matters when it comes to explaining the spread of a virus. Our thinking aligns with that provided by Bissell ( 2021 , p. 157): “my wager is that geography matters now more than ever as we try to move forward and refashion our lives in the long comet tail of COVID‐19.” Third, it is crucial to gauge whether and, depending on the phase of the pandemic, how driving factors vary over time hand‐in‐hand with the application or relaxation of non‐pharmaceutical interventions such as social/physical distancing.…”

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Modelling changing patterns in the COVID‐19 geographical distribution: Madrid’s case

Maza

Hierro

2021

Geographical Research

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We analyse the transmission factors shaping the spatial distribution of COVID‐19 infections during the distinct phases of the pandemic’s first wave in Madrid, Spain, by fitting a spatial regression model capturing neighbourhood effects between municipalities. Our findings highlight that factors such as population, mobility, and tourism were instrumental in the days before the national lockdown. As a result, already in the early part of the lockdown phase, a geographical pattern emerged in the spread of the disease, along with the positive (negative) impact of age (wealth) on virus transmission. Thereafter, spatial links between municipalities weakened, as the influences of mobility and tourism were eroded by mass quarantine. However, in the de‐escalation phase, mobility reappeared, reinforcing the geographical pattern, an issue that policymakers must pay heed to. Indeed, a counterfactual analysis shows that the number of infections without the lockdown would have been around 170% higher.

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Modelling changing patterns in the COVID‐19 geographical distribution: Madrid’s case

Maza

Hierro

2021

Geographical Research

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“…In the context of spatial metaphors, our study can already take profit from exploratory studies on the COVID-19 pandemic. First hand, one might expect the pandemic to be a capsular place not attached to any specific location (Bissell, 2021 ). In framing the pandemic as a rapid process, war metaphors were very productive, both indicating a connotation of seriousness and urgency (Semino, 2021 ) and a call for defensive actions and victory conditions (Chapman and Miller, 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On second visit, although, the intense use of terms like hotspot, break-outs or wildfires refers to metaphors of spatial bound natural disasters that run rapidly and on a large scale (Bissell, 2021 ). Looking deeper into the spatiality of COVID-19 metaphors, Brinks and Ibert ( 2020 ) propose to use the TPSN-Framework (Territory - Place - Scale - Network) of Jessop et al ( 2008 ) to account for the spatial granularity of measures taken.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis

Kremer

Felgenhauer²

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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As other crises before, the COVID-19 pandemic put established discursive routines at stake. By framing the pandemic as a crisis, an immediate search for adequate counter-measures started to define proper means of mitigation and protection for the population. In the early stages of COVID-19, when little reliable information on the virus and its transmission behaviour was available, an intense use of metaphor to explain and govern the crisis had to be expected. Beside its well-known impact on (geo-)politics, a thorough analysis especially of the use of spatial metaphors to reason about the crises is still missing. In our approach, we rely on the foundational work of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) on image schemata, and prior work on spatial metaphors as part of argumentation patterns from cultural geography (Schlottmann, 2008). After a thorough analysis of prominent examples according to the argumentation scheme of Toulmin (1976 [1958]), we explored examples from the pre-existing corpus on COVID-19, deliberately compiled by DWDS for analysis of language patterns used throughout the pandemic. In a subsequent filter-refinement approach building on methods from cognitive linguistics and utilising a chunk of the same corpus, we were able to obtain and discuss results on the variety of spatial metaphors used at that time.

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“…Globally, combinations of strategies to prevent the spread of COVID‐19 have been implemented from national to local scales and based on case numbers and level of risk posed from the spread of COVID‐19 (OECD, 2020 ). In addition to physical distancing, increased hygiene measures, and vaccinations, movement restrictions have been a major and common prevention strategy (Bissell, 2021 ; Girum et al, 2021 ). Defined by political, economic, and geographic boundaries, these restrictions ranged from country borders to specified distances from people’s homes, including those that have been part of “stay at home” and “lock down” orders.…”

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COVID‐19: A systems perspective on opportunities for better health outcomes

Morgan

2022

Geographical Research

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COVID‐19 has disrupted social and spatial life. In this work, I argue that such disruption provides an opportunity for all tiers of government to reassess collective priorities and reorient societal goals to work towards better health outcomes for all. I offer a systems thinking perspective to show how societal goals such as economic growth are supported by “system rules” created by governments—the same rules largely responsible for prevailing inequities and preventable chronic, noncommunicable diseases and conditions. The work is significant because it shows how the disruption caused by COVID‐19 changed deep system leverage points, highlighting places inside governmental systems susceptible and acceptable to change and revealing how systems can be reoriented. It draws on empirical data from one subnational jurisdiction of Australia. Specifically, in late 2020, 81 Tasmanian local government personnel shared views on diverse governmental changes made in response to the pandemic. Most participants wanted those changes to continue because of their net benefits to health and social, economic, and environmental outcomes more broadly. They expressed overwhelming support for actions to improve the social determinants of health and communicable and noncommunicable disease prevention and management. I conclude that unless such efforts for change continue, poor health outcomes and health inequities are likely to be exacerbated and argue that a shared systems goal to create a wellbeing economy could reorient systems to achieve better health outcomes for all.

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A changing sense of place: Geography and COVID‐19

Cited by 46 publications

References 14 publications

Modelling changing patterns in the COVID‐19 geographical distribution: Madrid’s case

Modelling changing patterns in the COVID‐19 geographical distribution: Madrid’s case

Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis

COVID‐19: A systems perspective on opportunities for better health outcomes

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