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COVID-19 and Marginalisation of People and Places

Impacts, Responses and Observed Effects of COVID-19 on Geographical Marginality

  • Examines COVID-19’s impacts on societies and economies globally
  • Describes how the pandemic has impacted on and often enhanced marginalization
  • Provides insight into the impacts and implications worldwide

Part of the book series: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality (PGEO, volume 7)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Etienne Nel, Stanko Pelc
    Pages 1-6
  3. COVID’s Global Impact and Marginalisation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. COVID-19s Economic and Social Impact Globally

      • Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Etienne Nel, Stanko Pelc
      Pages 9-26
  4. COVID-19’s Impact on Movement and Globalisation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
    2. Spatial Diffusion of COVID-19: From Hyper-Connected Territories to Marginal Areas—The Case of Niassa, Mozambique

      • Paulo Nossa, Anabela Mota-Pinto, Alice Freia, Julio Masquete, Pedro Bem-Haja, Fernanda Cravidão
      Pages 193-211

About this book

This book examines how COVID-19 has often enhanced social and economic marginalisation in different places and societies around the world. It explores the reality that selective deglobalisation is occurring and over and above the human tragedy which has been experienced, many societies and economies have had to adapt to the new reality which they find themselves in. Governments have been challenged to improve health care and provide economic relief and stimulus packages to sectors as diverse as tourism and education which have had to develop new ways of coping. Resilience theory is drawn on to help explain some of the creative responses which we observe, while in other places deep-rooted concerns for the future are a stark reality.  

By describing how the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing geographic, social and economic marginalisation, particularly for the most vulnerable places, societies and economic activities globally, this book provides insight into theimpacts and implications across the world and reflects on the different experiences. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš

  • School of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Etienne Nel

  • Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

    Stanko Pelc

About the editors

Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš is geographer and environmental historian. She is the senior researcher and full professor at the University of Zagreb. Her research interests are mainly focused on borderlands areas, spatial perceptions and spatial (regional) identities, environmental history and landscape change with particular focus on marginality issues.  She served as the vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History (2017-19), and currently (since 2020) she is the chair of the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response. She has co-authored and edited/co-edited 10 books, published 101 papers among which 66 peer reviewed scientific book chapters and research journal articles.  

Etienne Nel is a Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His research interests lie in the areas of regional and local economic development,small town and community development in Africa and Australasia. He chaired the IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses from 2004-2012. He was the Managing Editor of the New Zealand Geographer (2012-18) and is currently the Commissioning Editor for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education & for Local Economy. He has co-authored or co-edited 11 books, 6 conference proceedings, 48 book chapters and 112 articles.  

Stanko Pelc is professor of geography, studied at Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy (MSc) at the University of Ljubljana and Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb (PhD). He has been involved in rural development and planning of transportation systems; worked as university teacher at the University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor. At present he teaches at the departments of pre-school and primary education as well as at the geography department at the University of Primorska in Koper. His research interests cover many different fields such as demography, transportation geography, local and regional development, marginality and marginalisation especially its social dimension and in educational context. He is (co)author of 25 scientific articles, 22 published scientific conference contributions, 29 component parts or chapters in monographs, (co)edited seven books; is author of two books and one university textbook (in Slovenian).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: COVID-19 and Marginalisation of People and Places

  • Book Subtitle: Impacts, Responses and Observed Effects of COVID-19 on Geographical Marginality

  • Editors: Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Etienne Nel, Stanko Pelc

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11139-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11138-9Published: 04 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11141-9Published: 05 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11139-6Published: 03 October 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2367-0002

  • Series E-ISSN: 2367-0010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 231

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Population Economics, Economic Geography

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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