<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this year, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges for most human activities. Time-geography is a theoretical approach with great potential for analysing the consequences of the new disease and other disturbances, and this article aims at identifying possible developments of interest for the approach in the post-Covid era. The article addresses challenges that emerge for time-geographic research from the perspective of massive changes in human behaviour, regarding time-space activity patterns, caused by the globally diffusing disease. The implications of the pandemic are discussed with respect to four areas: (i) time-geographic techniques; (ii) activities and rhythms; (iii) activity spaces; and (iv) social issues and perceptions. The time-geographic concepts to be scrutinised are constraints, virtual time space and bundles, and stations and paths. In addition, the article introduces this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports on ‘Current issues, methods and applications in time-geography’, contributions which for evident reasons were written before the onset of the pandemic.</p></abstract>

In this year, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges for most human activities. Time-geography is a theoretical approach with great potential for analysing the consequences of the new disease and other disturbances, and this article aims at identifying possible developments of interest for the approach in the post-Covid era. The article addresses challenges that emerge for time-geographic research from the perspective of massive changes in human behaviour, regarding time-space activity patterns, caused by the globally diffusing disease. The implications of the pandemic are discussed with respect to four areas: (i) time-geographic techniques; (ii) activities and rhythms; (iii) activity spaces; and (iv) social issues and perceptions. The time-geographic concepts to be scrutinised are constraints, virtual time space and bundles, and stations and paths. In addition, the article introduces this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports on ‘Current issues, methods and applications in time-geography’, contributions which for evident reasons were written before the onset of the pandemic.

What about Time-Geography in the post-Covid-19 era?

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science

Moravian Geographical Reports

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In this year, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges for most human activities. Time-geography is a theoretical approach with great potential...

What about Time-Geography in the post-Covid-19 era?

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 238 - 247

Received: Sep 30, 2020

Accepted: Oct 30, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0017

Keywords
time-geography, Covid-19, pandemic, spatial behaviour, time-geographic concepts, future research prospects

© 2020 Pavel Klapka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

What about Time-Geography in the post-Covid-19 era?

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 238 - 247

Received: Sep 30, 2020

Accepted: Oct 30, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2020-0017

Keywordstime-geography, Covid-19, pandemic, spatial behaviour, time-geographic concepts, future research prospects

© 2020 Pavel Klapka et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
time-geography, Covid-19, pandemic, spatial behaviour, time-geographic concepts, future research prospects