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René Girard and Giorgio Agamben: Convergent and Divergent Political and Theological Prospects
No full textUnfortunately, categorical violence (violence wrought against a scapegoat minority, like ethnic cleansing and genocide) is a perpetual human problem. Although many thinkers concerned themselves with the issue of categorical violence, I would like to discuss René Girard (1923–2015) and Giorgio Agamben (born in 1942), two contemporary thinkers who present intriguing perspectives on categorical violence. Rather than viewing violence as an external element of societal life, they discuss the societal function of categorical violence while situating a sacred victim at the heart of their theories. Girard and Agamben are an unlikely pairing. Girard is renowned for his socio-anthropological mimetic theory, while Agamben is known for his political philosophy. However, despite these different perspectives, Girard's mimetic theory and Agamben's political philosophy share some intriguing similarities. For example, both thinkers employ an archaeological (anthropogenetic) methodology and situate their thoughts against the background of Judeo-Christian concepts such as messianism, revelation, and apocalypse..
Samen verder na de crisis:Lessen uit coronatijd over samenwerken en afstemmen in zorgorganisaties voor mensen met EV(M)B
No full textOnderzoeksrapport Kennisagenda Geestelijke Verzorging Thuis:Behorend bij ‘Kennisagenda GV Thuis’ (november 2023)
No full textMake social inclusion truly inclusive: plea for 'difference thinking'
No full textHet dominante beleidsideaal in de gehandicaptenzorg, sociale inclusie, sluit mensen met ernstige beperkingen uit. Simon van der Weele en Femmianne Bredewold pleiten voor een verbreed inclusie-ideaal, dat de wezenlijke verschillen tussen mensen erkent – en dus daadwerkelijk inclusief is
Perspectives on the essential skills of healthcare decision making in children and adolescents with intellectual disability
No full textBackground: Involvement in healthcare decisions is associated with better health outcomes for patients. For children and adolescents with intellectual disability, parents and healthcare professionals need to balance listening to a child’s wishes with the responsibility of keeping them safe. However, there is a scarcity of literature evaluating how to effectively involve them in decision making. In this context, we review the concept of health literacy, focusing on the skills of healthcare decision making for children and adolescents with intellectual disability. Methods: We describe the concept of health literacy and models explaining shared decision making (individuals and healthcare professionals collaborate in decision making process) and supported decision making (when a trusted person supports the individual to collaborate with the healthcare professional in the decision-making process), and a rapid review of the literature evaluating their efficacy. We discuss healthcare decision making for children and adolescents with intellectual disability in the context of relevant recommendations from the recent Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability in Australia. Results: Health literacy skills enable individuals to access, understand, appraise, remember and use health information and services. Shared decision making has been described for children with chronic conditions and supported decision making for adults with intellectual disability. Decision-making contributes to how individuals appraise and use healthcare. The rapid review found very limited evidence of outcomes where children and adolescents with intellectual disability have been supported to contribute to their healthcare decisions. Recommendations from the Disability Royal Commission highlight current needs for greater efforts to support and build the capacity of individuals with disability to be involved in the decisions that affect their life, including healthcare decision making. Conclusions: Existing rights frameworks and healthcare standards confirm the importance of providing all people with the opportunities to learn and practise health literacy skills including decision making. There is little literature examining interventions for healthcare decision making for children with intellectual disability. Childhood is a critical time for the development of skills and autonomy. Evidence for how children and adolescents with intellectual disability can learn and practice healthcare decision-making skills in preparation for adulthood is needed to reduce inequities in their autonomy
Meaning and Aging:Humanist Perspectives
No full textThe main objective of this book is to add, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging. The collection aims to enhance and complement the predominantly biomedical and sociological debates and provide a more comprehensive and highly topical view on aging and old age. By purveying a meaning-in-life perspective to the current debate we want to enrich and to deepen the research on aging, thus aspiring to an ideal of meaningful aging. The starting point of this book is a humanistic meaning frame for addressing basic needs of a meaningful existence, such as having goals in life, a sense of self-worth, connectedness with others, moral justification, a certain degree of understanding (comprehensibility), direction and influence with a view to cohesion in life, and not in the least place: (living) pleasure or excitement. Taken together, the essays show that experiencing a meaningful life contributes to one’s mentalresilience, conceived as the ability to realize a humane individuality (autonomy) in thinking and acting in situations of adversity and vulnerability, particularly those faced by older people
Historical abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions: An ex ante evaluation of institutional and non-institutional response procedures
No full textWith the disclosure of widespread sexual abuse within the Dutch Roman Catholic Church, victim-survivors demanded justice from Dutch Church authorities and the Dutch state. As conventional approaches, such as criminal and civil law, were deemed to be inept in achieving recognition and repair, new procedures had to be established. The Church initiated several complaint, compensation and mediation procedures. Besides these ‘institutional’ procedures (initiated by the ‘wrongdoer’ itself), a victim-led mediation procedure was developed. This article provides an ex ante evaluation of these varied response procedures in terms of the promise they made to achieve recognition and repair. Their design was assessed through the theoretical lenses of procedural and restorative justice. While the procedural lens shows that there is too little space for the voice of victim-survivors, the restorative lens shows that all responses were too individualistic in design, failing to integrate systemic aspects of the harm done at the institutional, societal and familial levels. These aspects are crucial to addressing the recognition claims at stake
Een Wereld van Verschil: Instellingsterreinen en het Goede Leven voor Mensen met een Verstandelijke Beperking
No full textOut of our hands:The experiences of Palestinian healthcare professionals at Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria Hospital in the aftermath of 7 October 2023
Get PDFThe place of Dilthey’s worldview analysis in Hartmut Rosa’s sociology of world relations
No full textDe filosofie van de wereldbeelden, of ‘Weltanschauungslehre’, was een antwoord op een enorm probleem van de westerse filosofie, maar creëerde in feite nieuwe problemen, waarvan sommige nog steeds aanwezig zijn in Hartmut Rosa’s benadering. Ik wil betogen dat Karl Mannheim en Martin Heidegger de slimste oplossingen voor deze problemen hadden, en dat we nog steeds kunnen leren van hun filosofieën