Scenarios of social isolation during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| Autor: | L. J. Iorio, T. M. Leite, R. A. A. Gomes, P. L. C. Araujo, M. P. F. de Gois, L. Parente-Ribeiro, G. L. Amaral, L. F. G. Ferreira, I. R. D. Campos, B. B. D. Dettmann, P. C. D. Gomes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Government
media coverage Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) new coronavirus scenarios Geography Planning and Development Public problem Public administration Social issues Special | Commentaries on Covid‐19 Compliance (psychology) legal geography public problem Work (electrical) Political science Pandemic public spaces medicine Social isolation medicine.symptom Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Geographical Research |
| ISSN: | 1745-5871 1745-5863 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1745-5871.12508 |
| Popis: | This work analyses the construction of social isolation as a public problem during the first wave of COVID‐19, drawing on experiences in Rio de Janeiro which, in addition to being one of the country’s major cities, had among the highest mortality rates in Brazil in 2020. We consider both the legal measures enacted by government agencies to contain the contagion and media coverage on the effects of these measures at the local level. The results show that, in the absence of compulsory confinement measures, urban public spaces were deployed both by government agencies and the media in a process by which social isolation was framed as a public problem. Legal measures affected daily patterns of movement, mobility, and sociability, and intervened in the dynamics of central urban functions and in access to and use of public spaces. Media reports gave voice to levels of public agreement or disagreement with regulations and emphasised the significance of legal measures to contain the spread of the virus. Public spaces are at the core of debates about compliance with legal measures to enforce social isolation because they are privileged places where social issues become visible and problematic material expressions of relationships between citizens and the law. This article analyses the construction of social isolation as a public problem in Brazil, during the first wave of COVID‐19, from a case study of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. |
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