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Andra Sonea, PhD on LinkedIn: “Tomorrow is the deadline submission of evidence for the HM Treasury #CallforEvidence for #AccesstoBanking. | was tempted to submit my PhD Thesis called "Everyday banking as critical national infrastructure. The case of Access to Banking in the UK" (link in the comments if you are so inclined to have a read). | am sure it would spare the work of many however | have seen such calls before and | remained with the impression that there is no real will to solve the problem of access to banking. There is a form of strategic ignorance at work (McGoey, 2019). When studying Katrina disaster, sociologists Frickel and Vincent (2007) famously said: ‘we have organized knowledge in ways that ensure we will not really know what is”

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Andra Sonea, PhD on LinkedIn: “Tomorrow is the deadline submission of evidence for the HM Treasury #CallforEvidence for #AccesstoBanking. | was tempted to submit my PhD Thesis called "Everyday banking as critical national infrastructure. The case of Access to Banking in the UK" (link in the comments if you are so inclined to have a read). | am sure it would spare the work of many however | have seen such calls before and | remained with the impression that there is no real will to solve the problem of access to banking. There is a form of strategic ignorance at work (McGoey, 2019). When studying Katrina disaster, sociologists Frickel and Vincent (2007) famously said: ‘we have organized knowledge in ways that ensure we will not really know what is”
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Ruth — of systems & design (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 03:32:19 JST Ruth — of systems & design

“I am a bit allergic to the idea that we can disregard industry resilience while pushing the individual to cover for this lack of resilience through their own means. I argue that accessibility is one of the characteristics of any critical national infrastructure providing essential services to the population.”
— Andra Sonea
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