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Abstract: „La pandémie de Covid-19 a mis à rude épreuve les multiples formes d’échanges transfrontaliers au sein de ce que l’on appelle la Grande Région. En effet, les restrictions frontalières mises en place pour limiter les impacts de la pandémie s’opposaient à ce qui, ici, était depuis longtemps devenu la normalité politique, économique et sociale. En s’appuyant sur des hypothèses théoriques et conceptuelles issues des border studies, l’article présente les effets de la pandémie sur la région frontalière franco-germano-belgo-luxembourgeoise et ses habitant·e·s. Les processus de rebordering enclenchés au printemps 2020 ont fortement perturbé les pratiques professionnelles, économiques et quotidiennes transfrontalières. En tant qu’espace d’interdépendance, de zone de contact et de transition, le borderland, avec ses fortes interactions et interdépendances transfrontalières, s’était entre-temps transformé en zone de conflit. Les nouveaux processus de debordering, initiés aussi bien de manière formelle par les responsables politiques que (et avant tout) de manière informelle par les citoyen·ne·s, suggèrent cependant que la crise peut également être considérée comme une chance car elle a permis de sensibiliser à l’égard des régions frontalières. Après les premiers enseignements tirés par les décideur·e·s à l’issue de l’expérience bouleversante de la première vague de la pandémie, il convient d’explorer à l’avenir dans quelle mesure ces enseignements peuvent être valorisés à long terme et comment la coopération transfrontalière peut être rendue plus résistante aux crises.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „COVID-19, as well as the measures set to stop the spread of the virus, strike urban life at its heart. Indeed, much of what makes urban life attractive thrives on the physical proximity of a diversity of people in densely populated built environments. It then comes as no surprise that the socio-spatial dynamics of this infectious disease have triggered a lively debate on the future of the city. In this chapter, by engaging with several voices in this public and academic debate, we focus on the question of whose city we are talking about when we refer to the post-COVID-19 city, focusing on the highly (sub)urbanized Flemish region and Brussels in Belgium. While there is plenty of evidence emerging that both COVID-19 and the COVID-19 measures, in particular the lockdown, hit the urban population very unequally and that it reproduces and strengthens certain urban inequalities, we argue that in the debate on urban life in the (post-)COVID-19 city a ‘white’ middle-class perspective is often dominant. As a result, the diversity of spatial needs and the varying degrees of spatial poverty are not sufficiently taken into account. We then move on to document the impact of COVID-19, and the measures to counter it, on precarious groups living in the city. Finally, we suggest a few socio-spatial lessons which could be drawn from the lockdown for a more equal post-COVID-19 city. The impact of the lockdown on urban life and the use of urban space was instantaneous. A remarkable feature of several early newspaper articles on COVID-19 and in Flemish cities and Brussels is its framing in terms of ‘urban flight’. In the articles, COVID-19 is framed as a potential new driver of urban flight and thus a threat to the renewed popularity of cities with (a part of) the middle class.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „The global health crisis due to the pandemic of the SARS‐CoV‐2 is associated with processes of urbanisation and globalisation. Globally well‐connected areas with high population densities are hence expected to be disproportionately affected by COVID‐19. This paper investigates the role of population density within the Netherlands, comparing hospitalisation and mortality related to COVID‐19 across municipalities. The paper finds that infections, hospitalisation and mortality related to COVID‐19 are not clearly correlated with the population density or urbanity of the municipality, also when controlling for age and public health factors. The paper concludes that while the public debate stresses the elevated risk of infections in cities, due to transgressive behaviour, the evidence in this paper suggests that the geography of the epidemic in the Netherlands is more complex. It speculates that the variation in urbanisation in most of the country might just be too small to expect significant differences.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „This paper looks at the particular geographies associated with the COVID‐19 outbreak through the lens of cities that are products of relational urbanisation. This includes small but highly globalised cities, such as financial centres or hot spots of politics and diplomacy, which are usually situated between different political, economic or cultural systems and their boundaries. These cities experienced strong growth due to internationalisation and a dedicated politics of extraversion. Our argument is that such places are unusually affected by the current lock‐down, illustrated by two empirical cases, the cities of Dublin, Ireland, and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Both have experienced striking growth rates recently, but now suffer from disruption. Their development trajectories remain unclear, since a return to the 'old normal' seems unlikely, and the emergent 'new normal' calls for adaptation towards more state involvement in areas hitherto governed by the market. The paper addresses possible alternative geographies for both cases.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „Dans cet extrait du «Recueil de contributions spécial Covid-19» que la Fondation IDEA a publié le 2 juin dernier, Antoine Decoville, chercheur en géographie et aménagement du territoire au LISER, nous parle de l’impact de la crise sanitaire et économique sur l’organisation spatiale du pays à l’échelle transfrontalière, nationale et locale.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „Marketplaces are regarded as quintessential public spaces, providing not only access to fresh produce but also functioning as important social infrastructures. However, many marketplaces closed down or changed fundamentally in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. In this paper, we reflect on the effects of the crisis on Dutch marketplaces from two interdependent analytical levels. From a ground level, we illustrate their ‘temporary death’ as public spaces and reflect on their changing social dynamics. From an organisational level, we analyse traders’ responses to the institutional measures taken to combat the crisis. Combining pre-corona, in-situ research with (social) media analysis, we show how a variegated institutional landscape of market regulation emerged. Whereas some markets closed down, others remained open in a highly regulated manner; representing merely economic infrastructures. Our first reflections lead to new avenues to explore how the COVID-19 crisis affects the everyday geographies of public space.“
Erkunden
Disziplin
- Europäische Ethnologie,Volkskunde (1)
- Geschichte (1)
- Politik (2)
- Soziologie, Gesellschaft (3)
- Wirtschaft (1)
Land
- Belgien (2)
- Luxemburg (4)
- Niederlande (2)
Thema
- Brüssel (1)
- Flandern (1)
- Globalisierung (2)
- Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation (2)
- Großregion Saar-Lor-Lux (1)
- Luxemburg (Stadt) (1)
- Marktplatz (1)
- Öffentlicher Raum (2)
- Open Access/Volltext (4)
- Saar-Lor-Lux (1)
- Stadt (1)
- Stadtleben (1)
- Suburbaner Raum (1)
- Verstädterung (2)
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- Buchteil (3)
- Zeitschriftenartikel (4)