Kraftl, Peter;
Andres, Lauren;
Bizzotto, Luciana;
Giatti, Leandro;
Marais, Lochner;
Matamandara, Abraham;
Moawad, Paul;
... Zara, Cristiana; + view all
(2025)
Cultures of COVID-19: Marginalized Young People’s Experiences of a Global Pandemic in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
, 115
(9)
pp. 2184-2206.
10.1080/24694452.2025.2523523.
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Abstract
This article attends to cultures—and cultural geographies—of COVID-19. Through a large-scale, qualitative, comparative study with 180 marginalized young people (aged—ten through twenty-four) in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, it reframes debates about the “impacts” of COVID-19 on different demographic groups. Rather, one of the article’s key contributions is to attend to the centrality of cultural practices and popular cultures involving creativity, play, belonging, embodiment, and emotion. Building on recent scholarship in cultural geographies on these themes, and on an identified lack of engagement with popular cultures in human geography, it (re)evaluates notions like obsession, addiction, identity, and transgression. By doing so, importantly, it adopts a very different perspective from predominant scholarship that positions such phenomena as medicalized, pathologized “problems” (especially for young people). Beyond the specific context of COVID-19, the article therefore extends how young people’s everyday lives are conceptualized. Moreover, it offers a novel framework for further analyses of the importance of (popular) cultural practices and cultural geographies in, and beyond, contexts of crisis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cultures of COVID-19: Marginalized Young People’s Experiences of a Global Pandemic in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/24694452.2025.2523523 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2523523 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | children’s geographies, cultural geographies, identity and belonging, obsession, popular cultures |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208940 |
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