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Het gaat slecht met veel jongeren. En het blijkt nog niet zo makkelijk om één oorzaak aan te wijzen #wickedproblem
Maar de kern ervan lijkt toch een algehele cultuurverandering: mijn kinderen, twintigers nu, groeien op in een samenleving die veel individualistischer en competitiever is dan die van mijn jeugd. 
De onderzoekers komen niet veel verder dan ‘influencers’ die op YouTube praten over hun mentale problemen. Ja, nog meer sociale media en nog meer ideaalbeelden - dát zal helpen.
Imagine a near future in which the fictional University of #Leonia announces a degree program in #DiscardStudies. In doing so, they help to establish this emerging field with a full #curriculum, dedicated faculty, and eager student population. 1/10 @DiscardStudies | #Discard2020
At U of L, teaching discard studies is about more than talking #trash. This new program’s core trains students to use #SystemsThinking to critique #power as the structural force that renders material, people, and land as #waste in a globalized #ColonialCapitalist society. 2/10
Treating objects and organisms as "#disposable" has consequences, but the root of this #WickedProblem runs deep below the surface. Traditional disciplines are insufficient for studying waste bc they focus on the details and fail to recognize the full picture (Brown, 2010). 3/10
A thread on policy responses to epidemics – from someone who’s spent 20 years researching and teaching their histories. These are observations not answers, that aim to contextualise not condone the UK govt response to #covid19. 1/13
There is no apolitical way of managing epidemics. There are always hard choices about how to balance civil liberties against state intervention, and individual freedom against the greater good. Different political traditions produce different interventions. 2/13
As with other policies, there are winners and losers. Choices about how and where to intervene are shaped by the dynamics of power, politics, money, class, gender, ethnicity etc. Historians study epidemics because their control reveals so much about societies. 3/13
