Stanley D. Brunn & Donna Gilbreath 
COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies 

Part I Global

1 ‘International boundaries, biological borders, and the public governance of the COVID-19 pandemic: Are we entering a whole new era?’ Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly

2 Pandemic geopolitics in the Anthropocene Simon Dalby

4 ‘Coronavirus and conservation: Environmental repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic’ Helen D. Hazen

5 ‘Pandemic geopolitics and the bordering of COVID-19: Academic and lay geographies of the pandemic and policies to contain and mitigate the novel coronavirus’ Virginie Mamadouh

6 ‘Rethinking distance and presence conceptions in times of COVID-19 and post-COVID-19: The search for a new educational literacy’ Paulo Quadros

Part II States, cities and COVID-19

7 The Swedish COVID-19 enigma/exception Sebastian Abrahamsson and Richard Ek

8 ‘Insularity in a connected world? The COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland’ ‘Karl Benediktsson, Benjamin D. Hennig, Anne-Cécile Mermet, and Sigríður Haraldsdóttir’

9 ‘Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a small island: The Isle of Man case study’ Sharon C. Cobb

10 ‘Medical philately and the world of COVID-19 postage stamps: Issues of truth, health and wealth’ Stanley D. Brunn

11 ‘The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine: A mosaic of regional patterns and voices of social disparity’ Eugenia Maruniak and Olena Dronova

12 ‘COVID-19 policy in Uzbekistan: Slipping back toward authoritarianism?’ Reuel Hanks and Dilshod Achilov

13 ‘The pandemic in Belarus in 2020-21: COVID-19 in the shadow of politics’ Ales Kirkevich and Alena Makouskaya

14 ‘COVID-19, the stay-home discourse and a ‘new’ geographic haven’ Mohamed Salah Eddine Madiou

15 ‘COVID-19 geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Regional and national health (in)securities in times of pandemic’ Carl Grundy-Warr

16 ‘Three challenges facing Guatemala’s COVID-19 Crisis: Mobility, violence and governance’ Trudy Mercadal

17 COVID-19 waves and politics in Costa Rica Ivan Molina

18 ‘Societal perceptions of the Saudi government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic’ Mark C. Thompson

19 ‘Tackling challenges of COVID-19: An assessment of the convergence-divergence debates from the Global South-India’ M. Satish Kumar and Aditya Singh

20 ‘Health geography of COVID-19: An exploratory analysis of the pandemic during its first phase in the compact cities of Barcelona and Madrid, Spain’ ‘Montserrat Pallares-Barbera, Simón Sánchez-Moral, Rafael Vicente-Salar, and Alfonso Arellano’

21 ‘Three impacts of COVID-19 in Pakistan society: Home confinement, social survey data and maps showing

diffusion’ Tahir Awan, Tehreem Raza Ch, and Mavia Mumtaz

Part III ‘Political impacts: Laws, borders, diplomacy, elections, peacekeeping’

22 ‘Peacekeeping operations: Challenges and opportunities in the midst of health crises’ Jessica Di Salvatore

23 ‘Travel restrictions and border security measures on the Canada–U.S. border during the COVID-19 pandemic—does law matter in a crisis?’ Roger S. Fisher

24 ‘Forgotten ones: Rhetoric of migration and tourism governance in South Africa in the sedentary epoch of

COVID-19′ Samuel Umoh Uwem and Oyewo Adetola Elizabeth

25 ‘From European Union student mobility to lockdown: “Virtual study mobility” in the COVID-19 era and a case

study of transnational law in an international classroom delivered online’ Cherry James, John Koo, and Emmanouela Mylonaki

26 ‘Vaccination nation: Vaccine diplomacy and the U.S. vaccine rollout’ Shaun J. Johnson

27 ‘Changing COVID-19 border restrictions and borderland resilience: The Finnish-Swedish border case’ Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola and Juha Ridanpää

28 ‘Free movement of persons and goods in the European Union during COVID-19’ Lehte Roots

29 ‘Intertwined geographies of the pandemic and the U.S. presidential election of 2020: COVID-19 prevalence and

Donald Trump’ ‘Ryan Weichelt, J. Clark Archer, Robert Shepard, Robert Watrel, and Jill Archer’

Part IV Communication, branding and the media

30 ‘Affective immediately: Reading the semiotic landscape of COVID-19 in Lincoln, Nebraska’ James E. Baker

31 ‘Local newspaper coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in two major Texas cities: A visual comparison of Houston and El Paso’ Sarah A. Blue and Mary Stycos

32 ‘COVID-19 as the great (un)equalizer: The framing of women in media coverage in China, the Middle East, and

the U.S.’ Mari A. De Wees and Amy C. Miller

33 ‘Place-branding for immigrant and refugee integration and receptivity amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Responses of U.S. cities in the “Welcoming America” network’ Paul N. Mc Daniel, Rajit H. Das, and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez

34 ‘Lost in translation: Reporting about COVID-19 pandemic by community vernacular radio stations in rural Kenya’ Lilliane Atieno Oloo and Daniel Ochieng’ Orwenjo

35 ‘Examining effective communication during COVID-19 through Prime Minister’s speeches: The case of Malaysia’ Teresa Wai See Ong

36 Trump and the coronavirus: The triumph of incompetence Barney Warf

Part V Communications: Websites, social media

37 ‘Presenting, representing, and misrepresenting COVID-19 in the five Central Asian states: The political underpinnings of official state coronavirus websites in authoritarian regimes’ Ryan P. Cabana

38 ‘The role of user-generated content data for collaborative learning: Identifying tourism hot topics during the

pandemic’ Nuria Recuero Virto

39 ‘The impact of COVID-19 and use of geo-tagged user data in territories without planning: The case of São Tomé and Príncipe’ Nagayamma Aragão and Carlos Smaniotto Costa

41 Application of GIS in vaccine distribution during COVID-19 Jing Wu

Part VI Cartoons and cartooning

42 ‘More than a message: Public health advocacy, political cartooning and COVID-19 challenges in Pakistan’ Ayesha Ashfaq and Joseph Russomanno

43 ‘What’s so funny about COVID-19? How some comic strip artists have approached or avoided a sensitive subject’ Thomas L. Bell

44 ‘Visualizing the unspeakable in thought: A multi-model discourse analysis of cartoons as a device for communicating’ Maxwell Mpotsiah

Part VII Maps and mapping

45 ‘One year of COVID-19: Mapping the spread of a global pandemic’ Benjamin D. Hennig

46 ‘Mapping silenced spaces during increased overdose and COVID-19: Opportunities for danger and Harm Reduction in southern Appalachia’ Lesly-Marie Buer, Bayla Ostrach, Sam Armbruster, and Erin Major

47 ‘COVID-19 in Tunisia: Mapping and documenting the impacts on those on the margins’ Betty Rouland and Marouen Taleb

48 ‘Mapping the COVID-19 spatial behaviors and narratives of women in an architecture school in the Midwest USA’ Mania T. Taher

49 ‘Increased use of maps during the COVID-19 pandemic: An example from Morocco’ Abdallah Zouhauri

Part VIII Cultures: Diffusion and social well-being

50 ‘The way from the leading position to the last: Geodemographic analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in

Czechia’ ‘Dagmar Dzúrová, Klára Hulíková Tesárková, Pavlína Netrdová, and Lukáš Brůha’

51 COVID-19 deaths in México: A spatiotemporal analysis ‘Oscar Gerardo Hernández-Lara, José R. Díaz-Garayúa, and Kevin A. Butler’

52 Impacts of COVID-19 on Nigerian culture Ibrahim Badamasi Lambu

53 Research frontiers on COVID-19 issues in Brazilian context Paulo Quadros

54 ‘Geography, factors and consequences of COVID-19 diffusion in Russia’ Stepan Zemtsov and Vyacheslav Baburin

Part IX Mobility and immobility

55 ‘Effects of COVID-19 on urban mobility and public space use in Kumasi, Ghana’ Clifford Amoako, Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, and Michael Poku-Boansi

56 Impact of COVID-19 on Nepal’s labour migration Sadikshya Bhattarai and Jeevan Baniya

57 ‘Voting with their feet: Coronavirus pandemic refugees and the future of American cities’ James H. Johnson, Jr.

58 ‘Exploring human mobilities in the COVID-19 era in urban and rural Canada’ K. Bruce Newbold, Curtis Towle, and Kaylah Vrabic

59 ‘Rearranging mobilities and immobilities and placeremaking during COVID-19: Governing the pandemic

situation through (im)mobilities in South Korea’ Hae Ran Shin Part X Inequalities and divides

60 ‘Pandemic and education: Persistent deepening of educational inequalities in Argentina as a consequence of COVID-19’ Gustavo Javier Annessi and Paola Demirta

61 ‘COVID-19 and the comorbidities of spatial inequality and colonial legacy: Two Caribbean cases – Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago’ April K. Baptiste and Hubert Devonish

62 ‘Digital inequalities in times of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel and Germany’ Elisabeth Sommerlad and Yossi David

Part XI ‘Marginalized groups: Refugees, silences, gender, racism, survival’

63 ‘Beyond the ecumene: Roma genesis, community and survival in the COVID-19 world’ Krasimir Asenov

64 ‘Ethnic minorities in Poland in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: Threats, stigma and forms of (in)visibility’ Bartłomiej Chromik, Joanna Maryniak, and Justyna Olko

65 ‘Everyday morbid geography: Street life and COVID-19 state regulation in Manila and Hanoi’ ‘José Edgardo A. Gomez, Jr., Redento B. Recio, Ha Minh Hai Thai, and Phuong Thu Nguyen’

67 ‘‘If I don’t sell food, how would I eat?’ Negotiating Street Vendor Livelihoods in the Context of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Urban Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos’ Jennifer C. Langill, Binh N. Nguyen, and Sarah Turner

68 ‘Impact of COVID-19 on local planning practices: Focusing on tactical urbanism, slow streets and low-income communities in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, and New York’ Joongsub Kim

69 ‘Risk and the transformation of everyday places and spaces: Emptiness and meaning-making in daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic hazardscape’ ‘De Mond Shondell Miller, Nicola Davis Bivens, Rosalyn D. Harrington, and Anita Bledsoe-Gardner’

70 ‘Racism in the times of COVID-19: Angos, dirty, undisciplined, and vendors in Quito, Ecuador’ M. Belén Noroña

71 ‘Blurry microgeographies of the new normal: Grappling with COVID-19 disruptions, disgust and despair in Switzerland’ Sven Daniel Wolfe

72 ‘Vulnerability, infection, and anti-discrimination among Asian Americans and COVID-19: Explorations into race and health intersections in California’ Siqiao Xie, Wei Li, and Yining Tan

73 ‘Racism, risk, and supply: U.S. policies toward COVID-19 and Asia, and current and future impacts on Asian Americans’ Karen J. Leong, Wei Li, and Angela Chia-Chen Chen

Part XII Indigenous groups

74 ‘Q’eqaläj Jiq’ Ojöb ‘Darkest suffocating cough’ (COVID-19) in Guatemala: Kaqchikel Maya personal accounts of overcoming the pandemic and its despair’ ‘Ixq’anil Judith M. Maxwell, Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez, Ixkamey, Magda Silvia Sotz’ Mux, Aq’ab’al Gonzalo Ticun Quel, Oxlajuj B’atz’ Byron Vinicio Socorec Yucuté, Mokchewan Marco Antonio Guaján Cristal, Lajuj B’atz’ Edy Rene Guaján Car’

75 ‘COVID-19, “Black lives Matter” and Indigenous Australians: A tale of two intersecting pandemics’ Robyn Newitt and Corrinne T. Sullivan

76 ‘Facing vulnerability and mobilizing resilience: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on speakers of Indigenous languages in Mexico and their protective behaviours’ Justyna Olko, Joanna Maryniak, and Bartłomiej Chromik

Part XIII Economy and economic livelihoods

77 ‘COVID-19 and the interruption of sister cities activities: Lexington, Kentucky and its four “sister” Thoroughbred raising/racing cities’ Stanley D. Brunn and Kay Sargent

78 ‘Spatial dimensions of vulnerability: Meatpacking, socioeconomics, and the outbreak of COVID-19 in the High Plains of Texas’ Richard C. Jones and Jamie Gillis

79 ‘Forecasting the economic impacts of COVID-19: A case for the Namibian economy’ Evelina Julius, Samuel Nuugulu, and Lukas Julius

80 ‘Impact of COVID-19 on the Dutch flower trade-logistics node’ Melika Levelt and Abdel El Makhloufi

81 ‘Meeting the challenge of COVID-19: How American craft breweries responded’ Neil Reid, Margaret Gripshover, and Thomas L. Bell

82 ‘How work and shopping related travel changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Hungary in 2020’ Viktória Szőke and László Kovács

83 ‘The Italian fashion industry facing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis’ Tania Toffanin

84 ‘Resilience of retailing: From the perspective of Chinese daily shopping distance in three stages related to the COVID-19 pandemic’ Shangyi Zhou and Ruizhe Hong

85 ‘Stability extension of food culture space: A case study of consumer space practice before and after COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan food markets’ Yilin Gan, Yuanyuan Zhu, and Jing Luo

Part XIV ‘Rural: Farming, fishing and small town life, livelihoods and health care’

86 ‘Rural livelihoods amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: Farmers and fishers in Thailand and Vietnam’ ‘Edo Andriesse, Quynh T. N. Pham, Thu L. T. Dinh, Chaturong Kongkaew, Adirake Markphol, and Jawanit Kittitornkool’

87 ‘Reflections on COVID-19 and its impact on marginal urban places: The case of four small towns in the Western Cape, South Africa’ ‘Ronnie Donaldson, Jessica Eichhoff, Franky Nightingale, Jamie Cloete, Masixole Ndamandama, Geo Erasmus’

88 ‘Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. custom grain and forage harvesting labor supply and 2020 harvest’ Jason P. Holcomb

89 ‘The COVID-19 pandemic and coastal fishery livelihood systems: Socio-economic implications for small-scale fisherfolk in Winneba, Ghana’ ‘Victor Owusu, Yaw Agyeman Boafo, Moses Adjei, and Richard Boateng’

90 ‘Reflections of a nurse/administrator during COVID-19: Preparedness and fear in rural Kentucky nursing homes’ Donna Gilbreath and Linda Mc Connell, RN, LNHA

Part XV Sports

91 ‘Life in the National Basketball Association bubble: A space for social justice during the COVID-19 pandemic’ Neil Conner

92 ‘Futures of change and futures of uncertainty: The impacts of COVID-19 and movements for racial justice in English football and NASCAR’ Michael Hawkins

93 Change the game: Sport and leisure responses to COVID-19 Catherine A. Waite

94 ‘COVID-19 pandemic and young tourists’ travel risk perceptions: Impacts on travel restrictions (local and international) and tourism’ ‘Aleksandra S. Dragin, Maja B. Mijatov, Nebojša Majstorović, Bojan Janičić, and Darinka Korovljev’

95 ‘Challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic confront Georgia’s tourism industry’ ‘Giorgi Gogsadze, Nino Pavliashvili, Mariam Tsitsagi, and Nana Kvirkvelia’

96 ‘Corporate social responsibility in times of epidemic outbreaks: A case study from the hospitality industry in Spain’ Thais González-Torres and José Luis Rodríguez-Sánchez

97 ‘How COVID-19 changed mobility: A life-oriented approach to travel behavior change in Flanders, Belgium’ ‘Hannah Hook, Jonas de Vos, Veronique Van Acker, and Frank Witlox’

98 ‘Finland’s tourism in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Abrupt halt in internationals and moderate revival of domestics’ Tommi Inkinen

99 ‘Measuring the spread of COVID-19: Restrictions and mobility in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia)’ Radoslav Klamár, Miloslav Michalko, and Jana Michalková

100 ‘Emerging technocratic cosmologies on traveling: Travels and tourism after COVID-19 in Argentina’ Maximilliano E. Korstanje

101 ‘Impacts of COVID-19 on youth tourism and hospitality managers in training in Serbia’ ‘Maja B. Mijatov, Aleksandra S. Dragin, Nebojša Majstorović, Bojan Janičić, and Zrinka Zadel’

102 ‘Tourism and COVID-19: Socio-economic impacts of COVID-

19 on the tourism industry in Bulgaria’ ‘Desislava Varadzhakova, Aleksandra Ravnachka, and Nikola Naumov’

103 ‘COVID-19 and tourism geography at a crossroads: Challenges, opportunities and moving forward’ Velvet Nelson

Part XVII Arts: Photography, art, film, music and architecture

104 ‘Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on live musical performance in the United States and the United Kingdom: Outsider and insider perspectives’ Thomas L. Bell, Brian Bell, and Carl Taylor

105 ‘The bigger picture: Coronavirus in the context of the history of the American film industry’ Kevin J. Corbett

106 ‘Songs which resonate: Music and nostalgia in the first U.K. COVID-19 lockdown’ Georgina Hughes

107 ‘#artcovidbn on Instagram: Capturing COVID-19’s new normal in Brunei via creative artwork’ Siti Mazidah Mohamad and Nurul Farzana Abdul Ghafar

108 ‘Photographing COVID-19 on the Philadelphia landscape: Responses, realities, silences, and reactions’ Rickie Sanders

109 ”’Stay at home:” Pictorial reflections of Polish students during the COVID-19 pandemic’ Agnieszka Świętek, Tomasz Padło, and Joanna Nowocień

Part XVIII Education: Teaching and learning

110 ‘Education as “mental vaccine:” Designing educational materials about COVID-19’ Philip J. Gersmehl and Carol A. Gersmehl

111 ‘Perceived impacts of COVID-19 by Spanish university students: Changes in the physical and social environments’ ‘Antonio Manuel Ávila Muñoz, Inmaculada Clotilde Santos Díaz, and Ester Trigo Ibáñez’

112 ‘Online education: An unprepared effort posing challenges to students and teachers of the Punjab state of India amid COVID-19’ Nishant Juneja, Kulbhushan Agnihotri, and Harleen Kaur

113 ‘Social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the school closings in five southern Africa countries: Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe’ Michael M. Kretzer

114 ‘Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on higher education: Challenges facing engineering education in India’ Sunil Jayant Kulkarni

115 ‘From emergency remote teaching to academic strategic digitalization planning: How a college responded to COVID-19 and what departments need to consider implementing’ Chris Lukinbeal

116 ‘The landscape of medical translators and interpreters during the coronavirus pandemic: Terminology, deontology and teaching-learning resources from the Translation Studies perspective (English, French, Spanish)’ Maria Carmen López-Ruiz

117 ‘(Re)defining the teaching-learning process during COVID-19 pandemic: The Portuguese experience’ Laura Soares and Elsa Pacheco

118 ‘Teaching geography in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in a Chinese university: A case study of Beijing Normal University’ Huasheng Zhu, Hao Wang, Jing Liu, and Shiyang Li

119 ‘Teaching about the geography of COVID-19 in high schools in different neighborhoods in Adana, Turkey: Assessments of teaching outcomes and student learning’ Çiğdem Çelik Şahin

Part XIX ‘Environmental change, risk, sustainability, conservation and the bio/geopolitics’

120 ‘Prospective aquatic brandscaping megaproject addressing climate change and coronavirus of the coastal Californias: The intersection of natural and anthropic 2020 AD impacts’ Richard B. Cathcart and Charles W. Finkl

121 ‘Costa Rican sustainable development perspectives: The COVID-19 pandemic as a turning point?’ ‘Edgar Espinoza-Cisneros, Ana María Araya-Castro, and Daniel Gutiérrez-González’

122 ‘Risk perception management related to COVID-19: A study of scenario planning in Cuba’ ‘Silvia M. Pell del Río, Alfredo L. Gil Rodríguez, D. Valdés Santiago, and Maria M. Febles Elejalde’

123 Zoos in Canada: Responses to COVID-19 pandemic Paul J. Harpley

124 ‘Shared spaces, shared suffering: Exploring the effects of COVID-19 on urban animal advocacy organizations in Chicago and Kansas City, USA’ Julie L. Urbanik and Connie L. Johnston

126 The COVID-19 pandemic and bio/geopolitics in Japan Takashi Yamazaki

Part XX Language and linguistics

127 ‘Fading voices: COVID-19, language death and the case of Bergamasco in Italy’ Simone De Cia and Giovanni Villa

128 ‘Persistence of ethnic and linguistic division during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Kosovo’ Uranela Demaj and Mieke Vandenbroucke

129 ‘The effect of face mask on the acoustic properties of vowels’ Georgios P. Georgiou

130 ‘The heterogeneity of language policies and its related health crisis communication about COVID-19 in Lesotho and South Africa’ Michael M. Kretzer and Verbra Pfeiffer

131 ‘‘No face mask, no entry!’: Dissecting multilingual COVID-19 related public health signs in Penang, Malaysia’ Teresa Wai See Ong

Part XXI Religion and faith communities

133 ‘Faith communities contribute to COVID-19 relief: Global and local responses of churches belonging to a world communion in accompaniment with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’ ‘Rebecca Duerst, Gustavo Driau, Anne Ruedisili Langdji, and Chandran Martin’

134 ‘Perspectives on the role of mysticism as an inter-religious meta-narrative in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic’ Dorthe Enger

135 ‘How do Arab and Moslem countries and communities act in dealing with the impacts of the COVID- 19 pandemic?’ Ghazi-Walid Falah and Ahmad Ben Touq

136 ‘Response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the Hindu faithbased organizations in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India’ Priyanka Ghosh and Swati Joshi

Part XXII ‘Coronavirus, faith-based communities, Hindu, religion, service, India’

137 ‘Narrative geographies of the coronavirus: Cultural interdependencies and the emergence of new assemblages’ Dawn R. Gilpin and Rian Bosse

138 ‘Immediate urgency and broad agreement: Early public COVID-19 responses of religiously affiliated nongovernmental organizations’ Karsten Lehmann

139 An unequal pandemic: Migration, the Hajj, and hypernationalism in Saudi Arabia Saurabh Mishra

140 ‘Orthodox Jewish communities and COVID-19: At the interface of faith, medicine and technology’ David Newman

141 ‘Retrenchment and retreat: Policy changes in the time of COVID-19 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ J. Matthew Shumway and Laurie Weisler

Part XXIII Organizations, resources and research challenges

143 ‘American Association of Geographers’ response to the COVID-19 crisis’ David H. Kaplan and Gary M. Langham

144 ‘Subjunctive geographies: The contribution of institutionalised geography in the German-speaking countries to COVID-19 research’ Gert W. Wolf

145 ‘The COVID-19 pandemic and the International Geographical Union’ Caichun Yin, Michael E. Meadows*, Yi Han, and Wenwu Zhao*

146 Researching China during the COVID-19 pandemic ‘Max D. Woodworth, Xuefei Ren, Jesse Rodenbiker, Ettore Santi, Yining Tan, Li Zhang, and Yu Zhou’