Category Archives: Baby Boomers
Differenze sì, guerra generazionale mai!
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on December 1, 2020
- Baby Boomers
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I was interviewed by Raffaello Carabini for Spazio50 magazine, 1 December 2020: La sociologa Jennie Bristow difende da sempre l’impegno comune delle generazioni – di giovani e anziani insieme – per migliorare il mondo. Il suo pensiero in questa intervista. È la responsabile del Dipartimento di Sociologia dell’Università di Canterbury, importante ateneo cattolico d’Inghilterra. Nel […]
Generationalism backs ageism
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 6, 2020
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Uncategorized
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Stefania Medetti interviewed me for her blog, The Age Buster. She wrote: Picasso had a Blue Period and I had a Russian one. For a couple of years, I devoured Russian literature, scavenging for unknown titles when the most famous ones had already found a place on my bookshelf. Russian literature has all the depths that […]
Stop Mugging Grandma: news and reviews
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on March 23, 2020
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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Review by Toni Calasanti of Virginia Tech: ‘Ageism, Generational Rhetoric, and the Rhetoric of “Generation”’, Contemporary Sociology (2021) 50(6), 453-459. https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061211050045a Review by Laura Isobel Paddon of Southampton University in Ageing and Society (40:4), April 2020, pp.921-922. Interview for BBC Radio 4 programme ‘OK, Boomer!’, 2 March 2020. Quoted in article by Melanie Wiseman in The Beacon Senior […]
Debate: Do baby boomers owe millennials an apology?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 15, 2019
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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Debate broadcast on the Ideas from the Trenches series on CBC Radio, Canada, 8 November 2019. Bruce Cannon Gibney and Jennie Bristow are on opposite sides of the ‘Boomer-blaming’ debate. They are both aware of each other’s work, but had never spoken directly until IDEAS brought them together for this episode. Jennie Bristow says the Boomer […]
‘OK Boomer’
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 14, 2019
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Over the past few weeks, the ‘OK Boomer’ meme has gone viral, leading to an offline epidemic of earnest commentary. The whippersnappers of ‘Generation Z’ have taken to TikTok – a social-media platform that seems to be about sharing chill-ironic lip-synching video-selfies – with a flurry of music, artwork, and follow-on merch responding to criticisms […]
The futility of generation wars
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 21, 2019
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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From the early years of the 21st century, the idea that old people have screwed up the world has become the received wisdom. From economic crisis to environmental catastrophe, from the Brexit vote to the election of Donald Trump, from the lack of affordable housing to the persistence of ‘unaffordable’ pensions, blame for a whole […]
Everyone’s a loser in today’s fabricated generation wars
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on October 5, 2018
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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According to doomsayers in policy and media circles, the young have never had it so bad, and the fault lies with their greedy elders. The allegedly enormous, voracious baby boomer generation, living it up on the golf course with the ill-gotten gains from gold-plated pensions and over-valued houses, is in the firing line for […]
Buying off young people
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on May 11, 2018
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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As adults, we have some major obligations to our children. We nourish their bodies, helping them through the chaos of toddlerhood and the hormonal hell of their teenage years, so that they grow into physically healthy adults. We nourish their minds, helping them to access the cultural heritage that our society has built up over […]
The promotion of ‘generational equity’ is a divisive pursuit
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 23, 2017
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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It has become fashionable in policy and media circles to talk about inequality between the generations. We are warned that today’s young people belong to a “jilted generation” (1), or a “stagnation generation” (2), who have been cornered by the economic and political problems of the moment and are unable to buy a house, start a […]
From Brexit to the pensions crisis, how did the Baby Boomers get the blame for everything?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on February 8, 2017
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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Amidst the raw outrage that followed the EU referendum vote on 23 June 2016, one generation found itself to be a particular target. ‘Baby boomers, you have already robbed your children of their future. Don’t make it worse by voting for Brexit,’ appealed James Moore in the Independent the day before the vote. ‘“This vote […]
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