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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented disruption. The quantitative effects on health, economy, travel, social interaction and almost any walk-of-life imaginable are massive. There is no doubt that this is a deep crisis, with profound effects. As we speak estimations and extrapolations of what this means for the future of cities and societies takes on new heights. This paper is not about these 'big effects'. Rather, it will invite a reflection upon the often taken-for-granted nature of mobilities and the contemporary city. We propose to 'think with' Covid-19 as it were in order to utilize it as a catalyst for bringing about more nuanced and deep descriptions of 'banal' everyday mobilities practices. For example, the standing in line at the bus-shed, the positioning and seating on the subway, the passing of pedestrians on the pavement, and the mobile negotiation of street spaces. The paper treat Covid-19 as a window into the 'politics of visibility'. The paper presents two key concepts as tools for enabling this reflection. One is the notion of the 'extended body' and the other the 'elastic situation'. These are exemplified in three short empirical vignettes of public space activities: queuing, running, and drive-in services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a response to the pervasive spread of both cartographic materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic and critical commentaries about such materials. Written by four Italian map-scholars with different theoretical backgrounds but similar socio-cultural and emotional concerns, this paper emerged spontaneously, following the impulse to grasp the rapid movement of coronavirus cartographies, particularly online. Through conversations carried out during the lockdown, the authors collaboratively observed how both scientific and governmental, as well as existential and affective features of the pandemic have been informed by cartographic imaginings. This plurality of cartographic visuals and mapping practices, which appeared soon after the coronavirus outbreak, requires exponential research angles. Approaching the pandemic through and in the proximity of maps, mapping practices, map-like objects and creative cartographies, this paper aims to foreground the speculative, empirical and fast-moving expressions of the pandemic's cartographic imagery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper interrogates the paradox of pathological treatments of certain transnational flows in a time of pandemics. Reflecting on COVID-19 developments in Singapore between January and October 2020, the paper traces the city-state's struggles against risks posed by different (im)mobile bodies within and surrounding its territory. While initially vowing not to 'isolate' itself, Singapore was seen to move incrementally toward tightening domestic and international mobilities, culminating in broad-based 'circuit breaker' restrictions in April 2020. Through an analysis of policy manoeuvres and news reports, the paper examines1) the graduated (and gradual) stoppage of aeromobilities among (even) kinetic groups, and 2) the dispersal and quarantine of low-skilled migrant workers usually stationed at peripheral enclosed spaces, as the city-state confronted multiple, unanticipated dormitory outbreaks. In both cases, the management of pathological risks took a turn, as (im)mobilities once thought to be non-risky turned out precisely to be high-risk. Singapore's response to COVID-19 not only highlights the unevenness of resource distribution and citizenship rights among different transnational groups, but also uncovers the dangers of bifurcating transnational flows in discriminatory ways in a post-pandemic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]