Ethical conference economies? Reimagining the costs of convening academic communities when moving online [0.03%]
伦理会议经济学？重新构想在线召集学术社区的成本
Michelle Bastian,Emil Henrik Flatø,Lisa Baraitser et al.
Michelle Bastian et al.
Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), and greater accessibilit...
Peder Roberts
Peder Roberts
This paper explores whether a central plank of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) - the science criterion - is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. It begins by situating the origins of the ATS within the context of the International ...
Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute [0.03%]
疫情下必要工作人员的通勤与位移以及“上下班”的变化意义
Anna Plyushteva
Anna Plyushteva
This commentary reflects on the pandemic commute and its significance for, on one hand, engaging with the problematic category of essential work, and on the other, future geographical research on transport and mobilities. Drawing on essenti...
Reduced 'fates of the body' and 'production of value for others' in the global garment industry: Thinking with Berlant on eating and hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的身体命运和“为他人生产价值”的减缩：伯兰特的饮食与饥饿理论在服装业中的思考
Katherine Brickell,Sabina Lawreniuk
Katherine Brickell
During the COVID-19 pandemic, suspended and laid off garment workers struggled on severely reduced incomes to meet the cost of food for themselves and their families. It is in this context of 'double crisis' that our commentary focuses on t...
Exploring the socioeconomic drivers of COVID-19 mortality across various spatial regimes [0.03%]
探究COVID-19死亡率在不同空间范围内的经济社会驱动因素
George Grekousis,Yi Lu,Ruoyu Wang
George Grekousis
Identifying the socioeconomic drivers of COVID-19 deaths is essential for designing effective policies and health interventions. However, how the significance and impact of these factors varies across different spatial regimes has been scan...
Richard Phillips,Katie Seaborne,Angus Goldsmith et al.
Richard Phillips et al.
Loneliness has emerged as a problem for individuals and society. A group whose loneliness has recently grown in severity and visibility is students in higher education. Complementing media reports and surveys of students' lockdown lonelines...
Maurice Yip
Maurice Yip
In this intervention, I examine the bordering dynamics in the nomosphere configured by the global pandemic crisis and their territorial consequences, drawing on an autoethnography of the impact of bordering on everyday life and academic pra...
The geography of the US's mishandling of COVID-19: A commentary on the politics of science in democracies [0.03%]
美国新冠肺炎疫情失控的地理证据：民主国家科学政治的一则评论
Benjamin Schrager
Benjamin Schrager
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 geograph...
Airline networks and the international diffusion of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) [0.03%]
航空公司航线与严重急性呼吸道综合症(SARS)的国际传播
John T Bowen,Christian Laroe
John T Bowen
In fewer than four months in 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spread from China to 25 countries and Taiwan, becoming the first new, easily transmissible infectious disease of the twenty-first century. The role of air transport...
Lost in translation: conflicting views of deforestation, land use and identity in western Madagascar [0.03%]
迷失在翻译中：马达加斯加西部人们对森林砍伐、土地使用和认同感的看法冲突
Ivan R Scales
Ivan R Scales
This paper focuses on the interplay between environmental narratives, identity politics and the management of forest resources in Madagascar. While efforts to conserve the island's biological diversity have centred primarily on the designat...