Making place in virus?free space

As much a rapidly evolving cultural signifier as viral materiality, COVID-19 has not biologically penetrated every national border. It is, however, transforming the interpretation, understanding, and experience of place in absence infection. One role for geographers is to analyse how material manifesting spatially beyond closed borders. More specifically, are particular places becoming meaningful virus-free? On that basis, this article offers commentary geographic analysis road called Road newly constructed on one islands Pacific nation, Tuvalu, migration during Tuvalu's pandemic state emergency. The idea rural security central government advice urbanites living main island Funafuti voluntarily return eight other which they claim kinship ties. Those outer long mythologised nation's real heartland, being secure, while capital insecure against risk. Rural thus constituted nurturing safe, particularly because renewed policy focus customary practices food security. amplification such intended limit need reliance cargo supplies humanitarian aid from infected outside world. Rurality, isolation, islandness, subsistence, remoteness pivotal an emerging narrative Tuvalu resourceful resilient pandemic.