It seems to me Corona Clothing is all the rage – though nobody currently calls it that. Rather, it is known as Working From Home clothes or What Day Is It clothes or We Don’t Have Enough clothes. Despite, or because of the pandemic, having the right kind of clothing is now, a matter of … Continue reading Corona Clothing
Tag: Everyday Life
Waiting
I have lost so many hours of my life to waiting. Waiting for people and parcels. Waiting for emails and letters. Waiting in queues. Waiting at traffic lights. Waiting for delayed trains and planes and buses. Waiting for results. Waiting for appointments. Waiting for the day to end. Waiting for sleep to arrive. Waiting for … Continue reading Waiting
Tea
Would you like a cup of Earl Grey? No thanks, have you got some normal tea? What is normal tea? Normal tea is not Earl Grey. Or expensively Fairtraded. I like that this Earl Grey is ethical. From Kenya, which was colonised. But not since ’63 - you think I should make some kind of … Continue reading Tea
Informed Consent
In her fourth year at Brennan, Esther was finally granted the permission to run an ethnography unit. She had mentioned her desire to teach ethnography back when they first hired her. But her contract then had only been for ten months and she, a new, shiny, untried member of staff. Her contract had been renewed … Continue reading Informed Consent
Barefoot Sociologist 