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Visualising quarantine: Spacetimes of chartered aircraft and mandatory hotels

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Spacious accommodation in plush hotels offering city views are spaces of 14-day mandatory quarantine for those entering Australia during the pandemic. When international borders closed to tourists under the Biosecurity Act, 2015 in March 2020 (Australian Government, 2020), vacant hotels emerged as temporary quarantine accommodation for returning Australian citizens and permanent residents. Rather than tourists, mobile bodies that arrived by air began to be framed as vectors for the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus in the media and by the Australian government, shaping the perception of the broader population (Iaquinto, 2020; Lobo, 2020).

Source: Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

DOI: 10.1177/23996544231157254f

Authors: Michele Lobo, Kaya Barry

Institutions: Deakin University, Griffith University

Language: English

Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Australian Government, Australian Research Council