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Bordering processes: the evolution of social borders in the time of pandemic

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dc.contributor.author Sultan, R
dc.contributor.author Srinivasan, L
dc.contributor.editor Dayaratne, R
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-23T04:41:58Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-23T04:41:58Z
dc.date.issued 2020-12-15
dc.identifier.citation ** en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/22096
dc.description.abstract The global pandemic outbreak, due to its nature of being transmitted through physical proximity, has created an immediate need for physical distancing and reinforcement of private and personal spaces of individuals. This need has caused a gigantic ‘kinopolitical’ event that has resulted in a drastic change in social, spatial and virtual borders. However, due to the sudden nature of this re-bordering of space, there has been a movement to virtual spaces to meet the social, emotional, cognitive and economical needs that were left unfulfilled. This has forced a greater permeability to virtual spaces of interaction - a kind of de-bordering. In this paper, we propose to examine the emerging consequences of changing social order in India and Bahrain from the lens of border theory. In the contexts of both countries, border theory has been used to offer insights into the following questions: - How can we analyze pandemic response strategies employed so far and identify the causes for their lack of success? - Who are the re-bordering and de-bordering processes serving and who are they excluding? - What needs to change with individual strategies that can make pandemic planning more inclusive? A qualitative approach has been used to analyze the newspaper coverage and the official announcements during the ongoing pandemic in India and Bahrain dating from March 2020 to September 2020. We shall conclude with the implications that analysis of pandemic response strategies through the lens of border theory, can have on restructuring our planning processes and developing frameworks in both countries en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Social borders en_US
dc.subject Virtual borders en_US
dc.subject Physical distancing en_US
dc.subject Inequalities en_US
dc.title Bordering processes: the evolution of social borders in the time of pandemic en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2020 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 8th International Urban Design Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP- 2020 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo, Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 56-70 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the International Conference on 'Cities, People and Places'- ICCPP-2020 en_US
dc.identifier.email rsultan@uob.edu.bh en_US
dc.identifier.email lakshmi.s@manipal.edu en_US


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