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Making place in virus‐free space
Geographical Research ( IF 5.043 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 , DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12463
Carol Farbotko 1
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As much a rapidly evolving cultural signifier as a viral materiality, COVID‐19 has not biologically penetrated every national border. It is, however, transforming the interpretation, understanding, and experience of place in the absence of infection. One role for geographers is to analyse how the material absence of COVID‐19 is manifesting spatially beyond closed borders. More specifically, how are particular places becoming meaningful as virus‐free? On that basis, this article offers a commentary and cultural geographic analysis of a road called COVID‐19 Road newly constructed on one of the islands of the Pacific nation, Tuvalu, and of migration during Tuvalu's pandemic state of emergency. The idea of rural security is central to national government advice for urbanites living on the main island of Funafuti to voluntarily return to one of the eight other rural islands to which they claim kinship ties. Those outer islands of Tuvalu, long mythologised as the nation's real heartland, are being constructed as secure, while the capital is insecure against COVID‐19 risk. Rural place is thus constituted as nurturing and safe, particularly because of a renewed policy focus on customary practices of food security. The amplification of such practices is intended to limit the need for reliance on cargo supplies and humanitarian aid from the infected outside world. Rurality, isolation, islandness, subsistence, and remoteness are pivotal to an emerging national narrative of Tuvalu as resourceful and resilient during the pandemic.

中文翻译:

在无病毒的空间中占据一席之地

作为病毒的重要性,迅速发展的文化象征,COVID-19并未在生物上渗透到每个国家的边界​​。但是,它正在改变没有感染的地方的解释,理解和经验。地理学家的职责之一是分析COVID-19的实质性缺失如何在空间上超出封闭边界。更具体地说,特定的地方如何变得无病毒才有意义?在此基础上,本文对在太平洋国家图瓦卢的一个岛屿上新建的名为COVID-19的道路以及在图瓦卢大流行紧急状态期间的移民进行了评论和文化地理分析。农村安全的思想是国家政府为居住在Funafuti主岛上的城市居民自愿返回他们声称有亲属关系的其他八个农村岛屿之一提供的建议的核心。长期以来,图瓦卢的那些外岛被视为该国的真正心脏地带,目前正在安全地进行建造,而首都则无法抵御COVID-19的风险。因此,农村地区被认为具有营养和安全性,特别是因为新的政策侧重于粮食安全的习惯做法。这种做法的扩大旨在限制对受感染的外界对货物供应和人道主义援助的依赖。农村,孤立,孤岛,生存和偏僻对于在大流行期间足智多谋,富有韧性的图瓦卢新兴民族叙事至关重要。
更新日期:2021-03-02
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