Dr. Alexander Murphy talks with AGS about the influence of borders and geopolitics on the current COVID-19 pandemic. As more than 7 billion people are under lockdown within national borders, political delineations of space seem to matter a lot. But then, borders do not transcend patterns of human mobility--supply chains, migration, tourism--along which the virus has spread. What can boundaries and spaces of power tell us at a time like this?
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