SCALE ANALYSIS ON COVID-19 EPIDEMIC PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN THE BORDER OF SOUTHWESTERN CHINA: A CASE OF RUILI

HOU Xue-feng; TAO Wei; REN Jian-zao

doi:10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.03.004

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3) : 30-38,117. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.03.004

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SCALE ANALYSIS ON COVID-19 EPIDEMIC PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN THE BORDER OF SOUTHWESTERN CHINA: A CASE OF RUILI

HOU Xue-feng^1,2, TAO Wei^1,2, REN Jian-zao^1,2

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The COVID-19 prevention and control in border areas is influenced by the discourse and practice of different actors on multiple scales, and its effectiveness is crucial to the success of the national epidemic prevention and control. In this paper, taking Ruili, a border city in Yunnan Province as an example, using the methods of discourse analysis and network interview. Based on the scale analysis framework, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of the epidemic prevention and control in the border areas of Ruili from three aspects: Theorizing scale, rhetorics of scale, scales of praxis. The results show that: In terms of theorizing scale, national and local scale entities pushed the borders of epidemic prevention and control to extend inward, and realized the reproduction of material borders; In terms of rhetorics of scale, the authorities use scale discourse to show the will of the state in epidemic prevention and control, which greatly condenses the spiritual boundary of people from all walks of life, and thus weakens the barriers caused by material border to people; In terms of scales of praxis, the government's top-down epidemic control policies and the general public's bottom-up prevention and control measures have constructed the material-human boundary layer by layer, forming a dual boundary landscape, it has effectively developed and consolidated China's inward borders.

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COVID-19 epidemic / bordering / theorizing scale / rhetorics of scale / scales of praxis

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HOU Xue-feng, TAO Wei, REN Jian-zao. SCALE ANALYSIS ON COVID-19 EPIDEMIC PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN THE BORDER OF SOUTHWESTERN CHINA: A CASE OF RUILI[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(3): 30-38,117 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.03.004

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