Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic
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| Název: | Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic |
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| Autoři: | Butler, E, Lupton, D |
| Zdroj: | Social & Cultural Geography. 25:833-851 |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Informa UK Limited, 2023. |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
| Témata: | anzsrc-for: 1604 Human Geography, anzsrc-for: 4405 Gender studies, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Coronaviruses, 4406 Human Geography, anzsrc-for: 4406 Human Geography, anzsrc-for: 44 Human Society, anzsrc-for: 2002 Cultural Studies, 44 Human Society, anzsrc-for: 1608 Sociology |
| Popis: | During the COVID-19 pandemic, several jurisdictions have exerted controls over people’s mobilities as a way of containing viral spread. In Australia, international borders were closed for almost two years and internal borders were periodically shut and policed as part of strong public health measures implemented by federal and state governments. In this article, we discuss how Australians conceptualized risk in relation to border controls, drawing on a set of interviews conducted in 2021 in which participants were asked to recount their experiences of the pandemic. Our analysis builds on social and cultural scholarship to understand the symbolic meanings and socio-spatialities of our participants’ accounts of living in COVID times, in which they were confined within both national and internal borders. Our findings suggest three main socio-spatial imaginaries at work in participants’ accounts of life behind closed borders during COVID-19. The first imaginary is an idea of immunity as a spatial property, supporting the concept of geographic immunity. The second is an ambivalent distinction between Self and Other produced through borders hastily thrown up along state lines. The third is the experience behind closed borders of living in a state of ‘suspension’, whereby risk is provisionally held off spatially, yet projected into the future. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Popis souboru: | application/pdf |
| Jazyk: | English |
| ISSN: | 1470-1197 1464-9365 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14649365.2023.2240290 |
| Rights: | CC BY NC ND |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....cb41df7436f2d9946509a1161d30f58b |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | During the COVID-19 pandemic, several jurisdictions have exerted controls over people’s mobilities as a way of containing viral spread. In Australia, international borders were closed for almost two years and internal borders were periodically shut and policed as part of strong public health measures implemented by federal and state governments. In this article, we discuss how Australians conceptualized risk in relation to border controls, drawing on a set of interviews conducted in 2021 in which participants were asked to recount their experiences of the pandemic. Our analysis builds on social and cultural scholarship to understand the symbolic meanings and socio-spatialities of our participants’ accounts of living in COVID times, in which they were confined within both national and internal borders. Our findings suggest three main socio-spatial imaginaries at work in participants’ accounts of life behind closed borders during COVID-19. The first imaginary is an idea of immunity as a spatial property, supporting the concept of geographic immunity. The second is an ambivalent distinction between Self and Other produced through borders hastily thrown up along state lines. The third is the experience behind closed borders of living in a state of ‘suspension’, whereby risk is provisionally held off spatially, yet projected into the future. |
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| ISSN: | 14701197 14649365 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14649365.2023.2240290 |