Territories, politics and governance of the Covid-19 pandemic

As a major public health and socio-ecological crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges, arguably affecting the everyday life of most individuals on the planet. The pandemic has transformed social relationships within families, communities and nations, awakening a spirit of care and reciprocity as well as engendering new mechanisms of control and surveillance to confront the dialectic of life and death. This editorial introduces the special issue composed of nine articles that engage with themes related to the responses to the pandemic and reflects on the implications of Covid-19 for scholarly questions on the politics and governance of territorial processes.