Pandemic ripples: Scrutinizing Arctic communities’ perspectives on COVID-19 and mental health – A case against damage-culture
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Pandemic ripples : Scrutinizing Arctic communities’ perspectives on COVID-19 and mental health – A case against damage-culture. / Schwalbe, Daria Morgounova.
5 s. 2023, Blog .Publikation: Andet › Udgivelser på nettet - Net-publikation › Forskning
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T1 - Pandemic ripples
T2 - Scrutinizing Arctic communities’ perspectives on COVID-19 and mental health – A case against damage-culture
AU - Schwalbe, Daria Morgounova
PY - 2023/4/12
Y1 - 2023/4/12
N2 - In this blog I will address such questions as: ‘How to explain degrees of distress and violence in the Arctic, even though the pandemic was not very widespread there?’ ‘Could any long-term psychological consequences of the pandemic on Arctic communities have actually been overlooked?’ and if so, How do we address these issues without further damage of the Inuit people. I also touch upon the concept of “silent culture” (in Danish, tavshedskulturen), scrutinizing the prevailing contradictory views of the ‘Inuit culture’ as both the key protective factor and a major obstacle to heathier life in the Arctic. I argue that western-centric idea of silent culture and the essentializing culture-focused research are both problematic, nor do they shake the very fundamental assumption: that western ideas are the only rational ones and the only ideas which can make sense of the world, of reality, of social life and of human beings.
AB - In this blog I will address such questions as: ‘How to explain degrees of distress and violence in the Arctic, even though the pandemic was not very widespread there?’ ‘Could any long-term psychological consequences of the pandemic on Arctic communities have actually been overlooked?’ and if so, How do we address these issues without further damage of the Inuit people. I also touch upon the concept of “silent culture” (in Danish, tavshedskulturen), scrutinizing the prevailing contradictory views of the ‘Inuit culture’ as both the key protective factor and a major obstacle to heathier life in the Arctic. I argue that western-centric idea of silent culture and the essentializing culture-focused research are both problematic, nor do they shake the very fundamental assumption: that western ideas are the only rational ones and the only ideas which can make sense of the world, of reality, of social life and of human beings.
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