Johara Meyer documents her experience of wandering through Camden during the second Coronavirus Lockdown in the UK. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered geographies of our everyday world: analyses of local/regional/global transition patterns underpin efforts to “flatten the curve”, human behaviour in places is governed by geographic containment strategies, and inherently spatial concepts of ‘social…
Prize Winning Capstone assessment
The Bloomsbury Geographer is proud to publish one of the prize winning capstone assessments, exploring concepts from first year modules. “Just as all phenomena exist in time and thus have a history, they also exist in space and have a geography” This statement, used by the US National Research Council (1997: 28), epitomizes the idea…
2020 US Election: Biden VS Trump – How the Pandemic Uncovered the Fight for Democracy
Nathan Yang looks back on a tumultuous 2020 US Election in the wake of a global pandemic. With Joe Biden winning his 3rd attempt at running for US President against rival President Donald Trump, the legitimacy of the US political system on a domestic and international stage is questioned. What can we learn from this…
