245 research outputs found
A year into the pandemic:shifts, improvisations and impacts for people, place, and policy
No full textThis chapter provides an overarching framework for exploring the relationships between people, place and policy and living with the COVID-19 pandemic. It recognises that these three Ps are interdependent; people are embedded in places and local and national policy is developed and applied to places. The chapter starts by exploring the debate on risk societies, non-calculable uncertainty, and the emergence of Jenga capitalism as a precursor for exploring the impacts of Covid-19. It then explores the relationship between globalisation and disease, before outlining national responses to COVID-19, including the emergence of socially distanced economies. The chapter also considers some dimensions of life after the pandemic, including a discussion of the impacts on policy and taxation. In so doing, the Chapter highlights Covid-19 as a cultural inflection point. The Chapter concludes by providing an outline of the contributions to the edited collection of the same name, to which this chapter forms the introduction
The preparedness, responsiveness and recovery triality:a pandemic research and policy framework
No full textDrawing on the contributions from the edited volume Living with Pandemics: People, Place and Policy this chapter develops a framework for post-pandemic policy and research agendas. The chapter identifies three stages to a pandemic – preparedness, responsiveness and recovery – and argues that this triad of interconnections should underpin the development of a Preparedness, Responsiveness and Recovery Research and Policy Framework (PRP). The chapter argues that people and places must be at the centre of the PRP framework followed by a focus on organisational and government policy innovation, impacts, improvisation, and adaptation strategies. Each element of the PRP framework involves society, economy, governance, and data through localised and hence spatialised diagnostics of problems and responses. The chapter also highlights the importance of understanding the relationship between biology and life as a cross-cutting theme of such a framework
Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability: new paradigm shifts, and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change
No full textThe Magic of Ordinary rather than Extraordinary Resilience?:Higher Education and Longer-Term Pandemic Impacts
No full textCOVID-19 initially closed universities forcing rapid adoption of online teaching. This chapter reflects on pandemic recovery in the context of higher education and explores some of the longer-term impacts that the pandemic has had on academic practice. Recovery is a complex and highly differentiated process and is founded upon resilience that is configured from ordinary rather than extraordinary phenomena. These processes include established social relationships based on extant friendship networks combined with investments in digital skills and related infrastructures. The chapter explores pandemic legacies and higher education focussing on implications for practice as this relates to teaching, learning, research and administration. <br/
Fragmented recoveries and proactive adaptability::new paradigm shifts and theoretical directions to unpacking recovery processes and behavioural change
No full textThe nature of shocks and crisis is highly diverse; crises and shocks tend to conglomerate rather than occur as single events. People and places are affected differently and have distinct abilities and resources to respond, cope and recover. Key here are path-dependent socio-economic living conditions along with pre-existent intersectional burdens that are constitutive of the everyday abilities of people and places to recover, to some extent, from shocks. There is not one type of recovery, but several parallel recovery processes. Such recoveries are deeply fragmented and reflect the harsh realities of inequitable societies which are simultaneously risk and recovery societies. Places, people, and policy are unprepared for new crises that would have similar (or worse) impacts than the COVID-19 pandemic. New theoretical development is required to characterise the new paradigm of recovery society which is based on understanding how society responds in practice to the direct, indirect, induced, and latent impacts of shocks and hazards
Introduction: Shock Chains and Parallel Shocks::Towards a Social Science of the Recovery Society
No full textAny one shock is never isolated from other shocks and any one recovery process will be complicated by further related and unrelated shocks and their related recovery processes. This chapter highlights the interactions that occur between shocks that are experienced in parallel or simultaneously and those that occur linearly and take the form of shock chains. These shock processes suggest that there needs to be further social science research on the complexity of shock and related recovery processes, to contribute to academic debate, but also to inform practice, policy development, and implementation. There needs to be a new social science research agenda on characterizing the features of the recovery society. A key issue is that there are many alternative recovery pathways and that each emerges through a set of iterative relationships between people, place, organisations, institutions, and governance processes. These alternatives reflect path dependency and previous decisions and related investments but are complicated by place-based intersectionality that compounds the ways in which parallel shocks and shock chains, and related recovery processes, interact with one another forming highly contextualised shock-related impacts and which then mediate the impacts of recovery processes in practice
In the eye of the storm: English local government and the COVID-19 crisis
No full textThe COVID-19 crisis has exposed the problematic nature of centre-local relations in the UK. This is particularly true in England, where the centre maintains a strong hold over the subnational governance. The aim of this chapter is to shed light on this issue, assessing how the presence of systemic weaknesses in multi-level governance structures has affected pandemic responses since the start of the coronavirus emergency in England. On the one hand, the analysis shows the resilience of the local level, emphasising the potential of place-based responses and locally rooted leadership against the top-down approach endorsed by the centre. On the other hand, however, it also indicates the persistence of central government’s dominance over local authorities. This has led to a growing chasm between central and local government, which impacts negatively on policy outcomes and requires to be addressed through a reform of vertical relationships and power allocation in England
Recovery from the pandemic: planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities
No full textThis chapter discusses planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities as an avenue of the Covid-19 pandemic recovery. Reterritorialisation indicates local food being targeted to local inhabitants instead of the global market. We argue that the pandemic has accelerated the reterritorialisation process. Supply chain actors actively responded to the local market, local agrifood sector labour was revalued, the rural-urban linkage was rebuilt along with the lifestyle change, and public political awareness was raised in engaging local agrifood issues. We propose planning the reterritorialisation of agriculture as a solution to perpetuating local agrifood activities and recovering from the pandemic. We discuss planning strategies from perspectives of access to land, the transition of farming practices, and structuring local supply chains. We conclude with research agenda drawn from the challenges faced by the coexistence of local and global food systems, the policy coherence and the juxtaposed complex issues like climate change and geopolitical conflicts
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