Cathrine Degnen
@_catdeg
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Anthropologist, question-asker. Likes dilemmas, the socio-cultural sort. Views mine. https://t.co/4SDgHQqG9D & Instagram: @covid19_brexit_identity
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joined August 2012
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.
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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.
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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
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#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.
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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.
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How can thousands of mostly white insurrectionists tear up the Capitol and practically nobody go to jail? #CapitolRiots #Insurrection #BlackLivesMatter
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So damn tired of living in a country that treats Black grief as a threat and white rage as a sacrament
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“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
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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.
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Almost all of the UK's Covid rules have ended, two years after they were introduced.
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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.
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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
https://t.co/2e7abj5e5Y
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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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Another screen grab, this one that shows the UK borders and port locations better. Image credit « Guardian graphic. Source: Resilience360, Department for Transport »
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I know the observation is so obvious in many ways...but both #brexit and #COVID19 are really slamming it home. @brex_n_belong #soc1027 @BrExpatsEU
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Struck me while reading this (The Guardian, 12.12.20, Ikea latest firm to suffer shortages and delays due to clogged UK ports) how seldom I have seen the country mapped according to its ports & how revealing crisis becomes in our understanding, experience & knowledge of place 1/2
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