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Aerial legacies of COVID-19
Francisco Klauser
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Institut de Géographie, University of Neuchâtel, Espace Tilo-Frey 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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The paper shows that the fight against COVID-19 has contributed in manifold ways to establishing the air as an object of imagination, concern and practice, generating novel ways of understanding it, of experiencing it and of acting on it. From this, a series of important insights are derived with regard to our understanding of the “air” as a realm of reality that is dramatically underplayed in socio-spatial theory.
The paper shows that the fight against COVID-19 has contributed in manifold ways to establishing...
