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‘Unburden us and them’:Encountering ‘the other’ in meetings between Bosnian genocide survivors and Dutch UN veterans
No full textRecently, the Dutch government granted ‘Dutchbat 3’ veterans and their partners the opportunity to return to Srebrenica and its surroundings, where they had been located up until the genocide of 1995. An important part of these return trips is dedicated to on-site meetings with women survivors of war and genocide. These encounters are thought to encourage more dialogue, mutual understanding, and an engagement with ‘the other’s’ points of view, with the aim of transforming the relationship between the participants. However, the conditions needed to make these encounters equal and meaningful are not yet fully understood. Levelling the playing field in encounters implies an ‘unlearning’ of earlier acquired perspectives, narratives, and worldviews, and involves mutual openness and respect. The success of an encounter is dependent on the willingness of visitors and hosts to think and do differently. This might be challenging in a context in which the memory of past conflict is highly gendered, polarized and politicized. By better grasping whether and in what ways encounters with ‘the other’ might become meaningful, it could be possible to design and implement these encounters accordingly. In this article, we aim to identify the conditions needed to enable or disable such encounters. Based on ethnographic research of survivors and veterans, we ask: which conditions need to be met to make the encounters meaningful for the participants? We argue that their current form has potential, but that, to be successful, more attention is needed to better understand what engaging with ‘the other’ really requires: it means being ready to ‘restory’ the past and be open to different perspectives. Our research shows that this is not easily done: dominant narratives feed into dichotomous memory cultures, causing people to fall back into old patterns, despite the fact that both groups had suffered from very similar forms of institutional neglect. To redress this the conceptualization of the encounters and return trips would need to be carefully considered
Improving Quality of Life of Families Headed by Parents With Intellectual Disabilities and Their Children by Means of Assistive Social Robotics
No full textBackground: Families of parents with intellectual disabilities still face discrimination, stigma and inadequate support, placing them in vulnerable positions. Social assistive robotics offers promising support. This study investigates the possible impact of social assistive robotics on family quality of life (FQoL). Method: An inclusive, iterative and qualitative research design was used, involving a co-researcher with an intellectual disability. Four families, headed by parents with an intellectual disability and children under 12, interacted with a robot at home. Prior to and after the interaction, visually supported semi-structured interviews on FQoL were conducted. Results: The robot had a positive impact on FQoL, particularly in family relationships, work and leisure, as the robot was integrated in the families' daily routines. Other domains were impacted less. Conclusions: Social assistive robotics has the potential to enhance FQoL and support vulnerable families, complementing existing systems. Further research and development are needed
Whose Gold is This?:Challenging Exclusion in Restitution, Towards a Social Analysis of Provenance
No full textThe restitution of material objects has become central for engaging with past injustices in post-conflict situations. Thereby, restitution is increasingly attributed a transformative potential to enable dialogues between different victim and perpetrator groups in the aftermath of mass violence. In both, National Socialist and colonial contexts, most objects that are returned are considered ‘valuable’ or ‘meaningful’ in dominant financial, artistic or cultural terms. Historically, these ‘valuable’ objects have left more archival traces leading to memorialization and restitution requests. Conversely, objects of alternative value, belonging to marginalized groups or appreciated in different value regimes (for instance economic objects, everyday objects, mineralogical samples) have left less extensive archival records, are less vividly remembered and are often overlooked for restitution. This focus on objects of a dominant value poses a fundamental challenge to restitution: how do the objects that are returned shape our social understandings of victim groups? How can marginalized groups become part of the dialogues that restitution envisions? We devote attention to these questions from a ‘social provenance research’ perspective to contemplate challenges of exclusion and different value systems for restitution processes and researchers. We explore a more socially differentiated understanding of restitution as a justice mechanism that not only shapes present perceptions of historical injustices but is itself also influenced by processes of selection and exclusion
Inherent versus contingent vulnerabilities in the care for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
No full textPublic strategic leaders and their reflective practice in accelerated times:a narrative exploration of a utopic story
No full textPurpose – In the leadership debate, one of the questions for public leaders nowadays is how to reflect and experience meaning in these complex and accelerated times. This article compares three dominant theoretical narratives with the narratives of public strategic leaders in practice. The statement in literature is that leaders in organisations need to create time to reflect on “creating meaning” with others as an answer to the adaptive challenges. The limitation of these studies is that they do not explore leaders’ experiences in practice. We fill this gap by examining the experiences of public strategic leaders and exploring the implications.Design/methodology/approach – We qualitatively explore the narratives of 25 public strategic leaders using interviews, group dialogues and surveys.Findings – The central finding is a problematic gap between theory and practice. This is a concern because of the utopic ideology of reflectivity, which does not consider the forces present in political and bureaucratic organisations and the leaders’ perceptions of their role and position. The narrative exploration shows a pattern of leaders trying “to do good”, avoiding disruptions caused by doubts, emotions or intuitions.Practical implications – The narratives of public strategic leaders show three persistent ideologies putting pressure on their reflective space in daily practice. These narratives offer a starting point for public organisations regarding the reflective practices of strategic leaders.Originality/value – This article opens a debate about leadership and reflectivity paradigms in theory and practice. It offers a reality check for leaders’ and coaches’ daily practices, as opposed to the often utopic theories
Opzeggen behandelovereenkomst
No full textMag een wijkverpleegkundige een behandelingsovereenkomst met een cliënt opzeggen wanneer deze de behandeling weigert en afspraken niet nakomt? Hierop wordt in dit artikel ingegaan aan de hand van de casus van Mark. Hij is aan alcohol verslaafd, woont in een vervuild huis en heeft open wonden
Development of the Dutch Chaplaincy Outcome Measure
No full textOutcome research is becoming increasingly important in chaplaincy. However, current outcome measures rarely reflect outcomes reflecting chaplaincy goals. This limits the understanding of the effect of chaplaincy care. Therefore, we have developed the Dutch Chaplaincy Outcome Measure (NUGV). It uses a Q-methodology, comprising a two-step sorting task of 25 statements and a brief post-sorting interview. The statements relate to four goals of chaplaincy: worldview development, coping with life events and circumstances, relational affirmation, and transcendence and connectedness. The statements were derived from a literature review, interviews with 24 clients of chaplaincy in primary, outpatient, or community care, and eight focus groups with clients, chaplaincy, and other professionals in primary, outpatient, or community care. Acceptability, clarity, and (face) validity were examined with a client council, in a workshop, and through two pilot studies. They were found to be satisfactory. Thus, the NUGV seems to be a promising instrument for outcome assessment in chaplaincy. More research is needed on the construct validity and specificity of the outcomes, as well as the use of the instrument in inpatient settings and among people with lower language and cognitive capabilities. We recommend that researchers administer the NUGV in person, to enable more support during the sorting task and to facilitate richer data in the post-sorting interview
Interactionist youth work
Get PDFVeel jongeren hebben het zwaar. Jeugdprofessionals helpen hen meestal zich aan te passen aan hun omstandigheden. Sebastian Abdallah pleit voor een andere manier van werken met jongeren: de ‘interactionistische’ benadering. Deze benadering is holistisch, belichaamd, dynamisch en transformatief.Many young people are struggling. Youth professionals usually help them adapt to their circumstances. Sebastian Abdallah advocates for a different way of working with young people: the "interactionist" approach. This approach is holistic, embodied, dynamic, and transformative