‘Loob’ and ‘Labas’: Spatial Constructions of Safety and Risk Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lasco, Gideon, Tan, Michael L, Yu, Vincen Gregory
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• الموضوعات: proxemics; risk conceptualization; COVID-19; pandemics; Philippines; health governance; Anthropology; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Epidemiology; Medicine and Health Sciences; Public Health; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/128; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/article/1128/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S1353829222001903_main.pdf

This article argues that local constructions of risky and safe spaces, as articulated by the notions ‘loob’ (inside) and ‘labas’ (outside), informed popular and political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, leading to an overemphasis on staying at home and, conversely, a general a...