Summary
Loneliness - Fay Bound Alberti, Reader in History at the University of York, charts the emergence of loneliness as a contemporary emotional state. Also, Janne Flora, postdoctoral scholar at Aarhus University, explores the deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analysing the social dynamics that shaped it.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
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| 0:36.6 | This is a podcast for BBC Radio Ford thinking aloud. |
| 0:41.1 | Are you mentally equipped for self-isolation? Can you manage loneliness? Is |
| 0:47.6 | loneliness of some kind or another an inevitable feature of the contemporary world. |
| 0:53.7 | Find out. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello. Hello, I have to say that inventing questions for finals papers was never my easiest task as a university lecturer. |
| 1:13.2 | I remember being told by some SCR pedant that I could only use critically discuss |
| 1:18.0 | just once on a single examination paper, |
| 1:20.7 | otherwise I should fall back on critically evaluate or critically appraise. |
| 1:26.0 | All of which is why it was such a pleasure to discover some years ago that a close academic |
| 1:30.8 | colleague had chosen this wonderfully simple question for alienation paper. |
| 1:37.0 | All the lonely people, where do they all come from? wrong. |
| 1:50.0 | Well, at a time when more and more of us are wondering about how on earth we are going to manage self-isolation, |
| 1:54.8 | any inquiry about the origins of those whose lives are characterized by loneliness, |
| 1:59.7 | who are permanently alone, constantly lonely, becomes even more salient. |
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