Cathrine Degnen
@_catdeg
Anthropologist, question-asker. Likes dilemmas, the socio-cultural sort. Views mine. https://brexit-studies.org/covid-19/ & Instagram: @covid19_brexit_identity
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Important thread re. generation and the pandemic, and again something we’re exploring in our fieldwork. #Covid had profound impacts across generation and this is reflected in moments of intergenerational understanding/solidarity existing alongside discourses of division/tension.
Yet more evidence from ONS of the profound generational imbalance of the economic effects of the pandemic. Of the Feb 2020-Feb 2021 annual decrease in employee jobs (down 693,000 overall) 63.1% (437k) were under 25 25.2% (174k) were 25-34 50-64s? Net increase of 32,000 jobs.
Earth, Venus and Jupiter seen from Mars.
February 2020 vs February 2021
Lawyers in meetings Who look just like kittens Folks in pyjamas And sweatshirts and mittens Silvery backdrops And fake booklined rooms These are a few Of my favourite Zooms.
Last week, my university advertised a "pandemic productivity" seminar. Today, I got the "due to unforeseen circumstances" cancellation message. Unforeseen? Really? This little example shows why we need to change the narrative about productivity amid crisis. 🙏🏽 /Thread
Moon Catcher, c.2014 by Victo Ngai, artist from Hong Kong #womensart
#soc1027 students, I have one word for you: #ritual Such a shame our virtual exchange with @IUPUI anthropology students is over - this national tradition would be a belter to discuss!
Groundhog Day 2018 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Maybe the weirdest (but most fun?) assignment I’ve ever had.
A devastating yet beautiful tribute to so many lives lost.
Our balcony. I long for the day when I don’t have to climb out there to add another ribbon.
How can thousands of mostly white insurrectionists tear up the Capitol and practically nobody go to jail? #CapitolRiots #Insurrection #BlackLivesMatter
So damn tired of living in a country that treats Black grief as a threat and white rage as a sacrament
“It is a false economy and a catastrophic error to exclude civil society from knowledge and decision making; it undermines trust, which compromises compliance. It squanders communal efforts which people were ready and willing to make.” #soc1027
In the three hours between filing this & it going online, the government has swung in with what we all already knew, that schools will be closed till February. They’re a month behind Mumsnet chat boards, always, on everything theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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The lack of honesty over school closures in England has eroded what little trust was left | Zoe...
If parents were told how long to expect school gates to stay shut due to Covid, they could better plan for their kids’ education, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
This BBC article (though now out of date in terms of the areas it lists as being in Tier 4) explains what the restrictions are in Tier 4 areas. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.…
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Covid: What is the guidance across the UK now? - BBC News
Almost all of the UK's Covid rules have ended, two years after they were introduced.
Contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #womensart #WinterSolstice
We are almost at The year’s tipping point Where night’s dark scarf Starts to unravel And day’s light scarf Begins to be knitted.
Our awesome PGR @GemmaMolyneux1 has blogged about developing a new approach to her research during Covid19. Life is a rollercoaster - read all about it! #PhD #Research blogs.ncl.ac.uk/pgrsociology/2…
Today we remember the 383 men and boys killed in the worst coal mining disaster in English history. The 12th & 13th December 1866 are dark days in Barnsley's history, underground explosions at The Oaks Colliery left few survivors, the youngest victim was just 11 years old.
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