During the pandemic, many prominent global leaders and scholars have called for placing science above politics. This commentary argues that such rhetoric dangerously oversimplifies science and politics as insular from democracy and geographical context. The theory of co‐construction from science and technology studies reveals the pandemic’s geographic intersection with other threats to democracy, such as rising inequality and authoritarianism. Since COVID‐19 figures to be central to the politics of the future, the field of geography helps to contextualise the importance of problematic trends that hinder the capacity for democracies to respond to present and future crises.

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美国对 COVID-19 处理不当的地理：对民主国家科学政治的评论


疫情期间，许多著名的全球领导人和学者呼吁将科学置于政治之上。这篇评论认为，这种言论危险地过度简化了科学和政治，使其脱离了民主和地理背景。科学和技术研究的共建理论揭示了这一流行病与其他民主威胁的地理交叉，例如日益加剧的不平等和威权主义。由于 COVID-19 被认为是未来政治的核心，地理学领域有助于了解阻碍民主国家应对当前和未来危机能力的问题趋势的重要性。