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Contextualising coronavirus geographically
Author(s) -
Sparke Matthew,
Anguelov Dimitar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12389
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , blame , vulnerability (computing) , sociology , resilience (materials science) , work (physics) , public relations , psychological resilience , political science , media studies , psychology , computer science , computer security , medicine , social psychology , engineering , virology , mechanical engineering , physics , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , thermodynamics
This editorial introduces a special virtual issue aimed at providing online access to articles that can contribute to the work of coming to geographical terms with the COVID‐19 pandemic. It outlines seven sub‐themes of enquiry and analysis that are especially useful for contextualising coronavirus geographically. These are explored in turn as geographies of: (1) infection, (2) vulnerability, (3) resilience, (4) blame, (5) immunisation, (6) interdependence, and (7) care. In each case, connections are made between publications that are included in the special virtual issue and other more recent writings related specifically to COVID‐19. In an effort to make these connections as useful as possible to geographers who have been drafted into online teaching in and about the pandemic, hyperlinks are used throughout to highlight additional online resources and reports.