Intimate revolutions: the relationship between spatial form and personal change in the COVID-19 pandemic

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI:10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101107

Laura McGrath , Marlee Bower , Amarina Donohoe-Bales , Kylie Valentine , Peta Wolifson , Erin Fearn-Smith , Caitlin Buckle , Julia Macauley

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Abstract

The predominant spatial form of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a mass confinement of people to domestic space and major restrictions to mobility and access to public space. This spatial change has personal implications; the material contexts in which people live are part of what shapes the possible range of experiences, relationships and selves to which a person has access. In this article we draw on mapping interviews conducted with a community sample of 46 Australians during 2021 and 2022, highlighting experiences of change: new ways of thinking, being or relating which participants developed in lockdown or intended to take up in the future. These changes were orientated towards similar concerns, wanting to sustain a greater focus on relationships, creativity and meaningful activity beyond lockdown. We note that these concerns reflect the symbolism and activities associated with domestic space (relationality, care, reproduction, the private self), indicating that these new futures and ways of being were crafted from the ingredients available in the spacetime of the pandemic. Implications for literatures on change emerging from crisis are discussed, arguing for greater attention to be paid to the spatial form of crisis situations.

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亲密革命：COVID-19大流行中空间形式与个人变化之间的关系

2019冠状病毒病大流行的主要空间形式是将大量人员限制在家庭空间内，并严重限制了人员流动和进入公共空间。这种空间变化具有个人含义；人们生活的物质环境是塑造一个人所能接触到的经历、关系和自我的可能范围的一部分。在这篇文章中，我们借鉴了在2021年和2022年期间对46名澳大利亚人的社区样本进行的地图访谈，强调了变化的经历：新的思维方式，参与者在封锁期间形成的或打算在未来采取的新思维方式。这些变化都是出于类似的担忧，希望在封锁之后更加关注人际关系、创造力和有意义的活动。我们注意到，这些关切反映了与家庭空间（关系、照料、繁殖、私人自我）相关的象征意义和活动，表明这些新的未来和存在方式是用大流行病时空中可用的成分精心制作的。讨论了危机引发的变化对文献的影响，认为应该更多地关注危机情境的空间形式。

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Emotion Space and Society Multiple-

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3.90

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45 days

期刊介绍： Emotion, Space and Society aims to provide a forum for interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places. These aims are broadly conceived to encourage investigations of feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. Questions of emotion are relevant to several different disciplines, and the editors welcome submissions from across the full spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. The journal editorial and presentational structure and style will demonstrate the richness generated by an interdisciplinary engagement with emotions and affects.