The concentration of COVID-19 cases and restrictions in metropolitan areas in 2020 resulted in a re-emergence of the concept of the ‘rural idyll’ in Australia, with rural and regional areas coming to be associated with a safe and uninterrupted way of life. Implicit in this notion is the assumption that those living in rural and regional areas found their routines and experiences of belonging uninterrupted. We critique this narrative by drawing on qualitative longitudinal data collected from 2006 to 2020, which allows us to examine our participants' experiences of belonging in rural and regional areas both before and during the pandemic. We find that although our participants' experiences of belonging were largely undisturbed by the pandemic, this was not because their lives were not affected more broadly, but because their sense of belonging was established through everyday routines and practices that were maintained during the pandemic.

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归属感的常规表现：大流行期间农村和地区的日常实践和关系

2020 年，大都市地区 COVID-19 病例的集中和限制导致澳大利亚“田园诗”的概念重新出现，农村和偏远地区开始与安全和不间断的生活方式相关联。这个概念中隐含的假设是，生活在农村和偏远地区的人们发现他们的日常生活和归属感没有受到干扰。我们通过利用从 2006 年到 2020 年收集的定性纵向数据来批评这种叙述，这使我们能够检查参与者在大流行之前和期间在农村和偏远地区的归属感体验。我们发现，尽管我们的参与者的归属感在​​很大程度上没有受到大流行的影响，但这并不是因为他们的生活没有受到更广泛的影响，