When a virus takes place: Some geographical reflections on the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2021.190736Keywords:
Planetary urbanization, Pandemic, Hyperspatiality, Synchronization, AnthropoceneAbstract
The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic seems to have amazed most political and health authorities, due to the speed of the spread of the virus and the need to control it through strict confinement measures, unprecedented in peacetime on a global scale. How can we understand the “success” of the pathogen in geographical terms? This article aims to show that the pandemic has been built from very specific characteristics of the urbanized world-system. As a matter of fact, only the conditions of global urbanization should explain the geographical kinetic and exhaustiveness of the Covid 19 pandemic. The article also aims to understand how the local and regional spatial differentiations of such phenomenon are established and, finally, proposes an interpretation of the pandemic, considering the anthropocene paradigm.
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