Interventions in critical health geopolitics: Borders, rights, and conspiracies in the COVID-19 pandemic

Sturm, Tristan; Mercille, Julien; Albrecht, Tom; Cole, Jennifer; Dodds, Klaus; Longhurst, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102445

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“…As shown in the map in Fig. 3, most of the first cluster countries are neighbors, which also applies to the second cluster as well [14,15]. Considering the third cluster, this also holds relatively.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…WHO identified 13 African counties including Algeria, Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo democratic republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morris, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia as counties with the highest risk of infection with limited resources against COVID-19 [13]. In studies performed on controlling COVID-19, so far healthcare and medical geography, as well as healthcare and medical policies have remained understudied [15]. Considering the rapid and extensive spread of this disease through the air and the inevitable interactions among different societies especially in neighboring countries, as well as genetic, cultural, social and other similarities of these counties, extraterritorial and international communications, as well as inability of some countries in providing the resources required for tackling this disease, global approaches are essential for controlling COVID-19 [3,16,17].…”

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Examining the world’s countries in terms of outbreak, control, and vaccination against COVID-19

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Mirzaei

2022

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Objective: More than two years has passed from the emergence of COVID-19 challenging worldwide. countries adopted various approaches against this disease, such that some countries could control its outbreak and effects within a shorter time than other counties but many countries are still in an abnormal state. The statistical population used in this research consisted of the published associated with COVID-19 data of countries from WHO website. These data were analyzed through data mining and using R software. k-means algorithm was employed for clustering. Results: The results indicated that the countries in the third cluster have undergone the worst level of damage in terms of variables related to outbreak, though they have had a better performance in terms of public vaccination compared to the countries of other clusters. The countries in the second cluster were found to be less afflicted in terms of transmission, mortality, and active cases, but regarding individual recovery, the number of tests taken, the variables related to public vaccination, the first cluster counties have shown a better performance. This study indicated that conterminous countries have a similar status against COVID-19. This can be due to similarities in political, cultural, social, economic, and other structures.

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Examining the world’s countries in terms of outbreak, control, and vaccination against COVID-19

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Mirzaei

2022

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“…Their health was made vulnerable by the structural inequalities that have impacted their lives, and which clustered them in low‐income jobs that left them dependent on public transport and jobs involving multiple human interactions. All the while there was a palpable and ugly sense that the media, egged on by government officials looking to shirk responsibility, simultaneously blamed them for moving outside home and between homes, all the while fetishising them as “essential workers” (Cole & Dodds, 2021 ; Sturm et al, 2021 ). Hence, their vulnerability was already collective such that it put them at a disproportionate – and fatal – disadvantage when the pandemic struck.…”

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Solidarity, not charity: Learning the lessons of the COVID‐19 pandemic to reconceptualise the radicality of mutual aid

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Cole

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly ruptured our global society. We have seen health care systems, governments and commerce buckle under the strain of disease, lockdowns and unrest, but the rupture has also created space for radical (and anarchist) politics of mutual aid, as societal organising principles, to move into a more prominent position (and offers potential for this shift to remain after the crisis has subsided). However, in the short time since mutual aid has been thrust into the limelight, we have seen a multiplicity and spectrum of geographies, applications and approaches. Indeed, we have also seen its appropriation by government(s) that takes advantage of mutual aid's rallying cry of “solidarity not charity”; absolving the state's responsibilities to sufficiently fund social welfare when good neighbours will do it for free. In this paper we map out how mutual aid has been enacted during the COVID‐19 pandemic by charity, contributory and radical groups to address specific and novel forms of vulnerabilities, and the opportunities and challenges this offers for the future. In particular we highlight potential tensions between the enacting of mutual aid practices and the political activism (or not) of the mutual aid actors. Our contribution is to reconceptualise mutual aid to (i) show where the real “mutualism” of mutual aid is, and (ii) create a better understanding of how mutual aid can be mobilised in future emergencies which will inevitably arise in the current climate emergency.

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“…The COVID ‐19 pandemic has introduced unprecedented changes in territorial, political and governance dynamics worldwide (Dodds et al., 2020), pushing geographers in both familiar and deeply uncharted directions (Megoran, 2021; Sturm et al., 2021). The pandemic has exacerbated already established re‐bordering trends and is driving a profound reconfiguration of borders across all geographical scales (Kenwick & Simmons, 2020).…”

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The aesthetic turn in border studies: Visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion

Moze

Spiegel

2022

Geography Compass

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In recent years, critical border studies have developed sophisticated concepts and methodologies for exploring the multifaceted spatialities, sociologies and temporalities of contemporary borders. In this article, we consider how the “aesthetic turn” that has gained prominence in the scholarship can further inform thinking in border studies. Specifically, we focus on the role of the visual in the construction as well as subversion of borders, suggesting possible avenues for future critical aesthetics‐engaged research on COVID‐19 era border reconfigurations. To do so, we first briefly outline the theoretical evolution of border studies, paying attention to recent conceptualisations of borders as dynamic processes of social and spatial differentiation. We then build on the borderscapes concept to unpack research on border aesthetics, with particular attention to the heterogeneous roles played by visual objects such as maps, photographs and videos in shaping both hegemonic and counter‐hegemonic processes of bordering. Finally, we bring these contributions into discussion with recent insights on the COVID‐19 pandemic, sketching several ways to advance aesthetic concepts and methodologies in academic research on borderscapes that are emerging with, and will likely outlast, the pandemic. We suggest that border studies and affiliated sub‐fields can gain useful insights from attending more explicitly and robustly to dynamic visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion.

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Interventions in critical health geopolitics: Borders, rights, and conspiracies in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 16 publications

References 66 publications

Examining the world’s countries in terms of outbreak, control, and vaccination against COVID-19

Examining the world’s countries in terms of outbreak, control, and vaccination against COVID-19

Solidarity, not charity: Learning the lessons of the COVID‐19 pandemic to reconceptualise the radicality of mutual aid

The aesthetic turn in border studies: Visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion

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