Signs at work

• DOI: 10.1075/ll.21041.mod
• Publication Date: 2022-09-01T12:56:57Z
• Authors: Gabriella Modan; Katie J. Wells
• Keywords: Social distance; Public space

Abstract We use a geographically informed notion of landscape and Williams’ (1977) framework structure feeling to examine ‘closed’, masking, social distancing signs on businesses in the Washington, DC central-city neighborhood Adams Morgan. argue that semantic content discursive Covid signs, together with in-the-moment walking down empty streets while little-understood virus had just started raging, promoted reconceptualization labor relations tied solidarity, public health, communal responsibility, making visible working conditions low-wage workers. This new opens up space – however narrow political possibility.