135 research outputs found
The intimate state:Remaking political landscapes in the Netherlands
Get PDFDutch social policy is shaped by the aspiration for an ‘intimate state’—a proximate, human and effective welfare state that works in partnership with responsible and engaged citizens. In her inaugural lecture, Anouk de Koning shows how this aspiration produces everyday realities full of dilemmas and contradictions and a political landscape in which the distinction between government and society becomes increasingly blurred.De Koning starts by highlighting the innovative insights an anthropological perspective brings to the study of welfare. She then traces the contours of this intimate state by examining both the promise of the intimate state and the dilemmas and contradictions that arise in its practice. She ends by calling for a critical anthropology with the state rather than against it—one in which researchers collaborate with policymakers and professionals to reflect on the ideals and pitfalls of social policy in action
The intimate state:Remaking political landscapes in the Netherlands
No full textDutch social policy is shaped by the aspiration for an ‘intimate state’—a proximate, human and effective welfare state that works in partnership with responsible and engaged citizens. In her inaugural lecture, Anouk de Koning shows how this aspiration produces everyday realities full of dilemmas and contradictions and a political landscape in which the distinction between government and society becomes increasingly blurred.De Koning starts by highlighting the innovative insights an anthropological perspective brings to the study of welfare. She then traces the contours of this intimate state by examining both the promise of the intimate state and the dilemmas and contradictions that arise in its practice. She ends by calling for a critical anthropology with the state rather than against it—one in which researchers collaborate with policymakers and professionals to reflect on the ideals and pitfalls of social policy in action
The intimate state:Remaking political landscapes in the Netherlands
Get PDFDutch social policy is shaped by the aspiration for an ‘intimate state’—a proximate, human and effective welfare state that works in partnership with responsible and engaged citizens. In her inaugural lecture, Anouk de Koning shows how this aspiration produces everyday realities full of dilemmas and contradictions and a political landscape in which the distinction between government and society becomes increasingly blurred.De Koning starts by highlighting the innovative insights an anthropological perspective brings to the study of welfare. She then traces the contours of this intimate state by examining both the promise of the intimate state and the dilemmas and contradictions that arise in its practice. She ends by calling for a critical anthropology with the state rather than against it—one in which researchers collaborate with policymakers and professionals to reflect on the ideals and pitfalls of social policy in action
“Norms and values are not our concern” Diversity within the universal protocols at the municipality Veenendaal
No full textAt the municipality of Veenendaal, three prominent sentiments intersect. (1) Current integration discourse, which since the 2015 refugee situation, was brought back into the limelight. (2) The 2015 Participation Act, a new law that demands every person on welfare to be active and participate in society even when they are not working and (3) the municipality’s duty of objectivity towards all their welfare clients. Through qualitative research conducted among client managers re-integration at the Economics and Work department of the municipality of Veenendaal, this research aims to explain how the municipality copes with diversity within their client population in the context of the three intersecting sentiments.
I argue that the municipality creates a universal protocol that through interaction and documentation produces neutral, simple, universal subjects. Nevertheless, client managers still differentiate along racial lines using personal interpretation of which ‘Dutch’ cultural traits are needed to succeed in the labour market. However, ‘culture’ and difference overall are barely addressed by client managers within these protocols and the topics are outsourced to experts that work mainly outside these protocols. This gives client managers the opportunity to stay within universal protocols, where they do not have to negotiate diversity because within it difference does not exist because all clients are universal subjects
Teaching the Nation. How teachers deal with diversity in the classroom
No full textIn 2015 the refugee ‘crisis’ in Europe was at its peak. Refugees mostly from a war-torn Syria
looked for refuge in the nation-states in Europe. The crisis showed an ambivalent Germany
stuck between the rise of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments and Willkommenskultur,
which describes Germany’s welcoming stance towards arriving refugees. Three years after the
‘crisis’ public and political debates have shifted from managing the ‘crisis’ to figuring out how
to ‘integrate’ the newcomers. One of the institutions of public and political concern are schools,
who absorbed the arriving refugee children and are an important factor for their integration.
This thesis looks at how anxieties about the influx of migrants and the growing diversification
of Europe is taken up by teachers. Schools can be seen as a place that mirrors the nation in its
social and ethnic composition. Therefore the thesis examines how broader debates and social
change manifest in the classroom. The opinions, perspectives and struggles of teachers are
highlighted to show what teaching at this moment in time means and looks like. Through
qualitative research at a primary school in Eastern Germany, the challenges teachers articulate
about educating the next generation are emphasized, grounded in the setting and context of the
school’s frame and unique student body. Consequently this thesis shows that in the classroom
political and social debates about integrating the ethnic ‘other’ play out in complex ways
Movement disorders in inborn errors of metabolism:Characterisation of motor and non-motor symptoms
Get PDFInborn errors of metabolism (IEM) form a large varied group of disorders that often present in childhood. Movement disorders such as tremor, jerks or involuntary muscle contractions can all be caused by IEM. In this thesis we studied the types of movement disorders that occur in several different IEM, the severity of these movement disorders, and their impact on daily life. We found that many IEM patients, both children and adults, suffer from movement disorders. Depending on the type of IEM (glutaric aciduria type 1, classical galactosemia and Niemann-Pick type C, among others, were studied), movement disorders were found to be present in 49 to 100% of the studied patients. Movement disorders significantly influenced daily functioning; patients with a more severe movement disorder experienced more problems in daily life and reported a lower quality of life. It was further observed that in addition to movement disorders, many patients suffered from psychiatric and behavioural problems, which can also be very bothersome and impact functioning. Despite the frequent occurrence of movement disorders in IEM and their significant impact on daily life, only a few patients are actually treated for their movement disorder. Therefore, movement disorders in patients with IEM deserve more attention. We plead for more awareness by physicians treating patients with IEM for movement disorders and their treatment options. Standardized assessments of the presence of a movement disorder should be included in the routine checks for patients with an IEM that is known to be associated with movement disorders
Global Dreams: Class, Gender and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo
No full textGlobal Dreams: Class, Gender and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo (AUC Press 2009)by Anouk de Koning Global Dreams examines Cairo's experience of economic liberalization in an era of globalization. This study asks what happened to a postcolonial middle class that was once the carrier of national aspirations and dreams. It explores how young middle-class professionals navigate Cairo's increasingly divided landscape and discusses the rise of a young upper-middle class presence in the work, le..
Global Dreams: Class, Gender and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo
No full textGlobal Dreams: Class, Gender and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo (AUC Press 2009)by Anouk de Koning Global Dreams examines Cairo's experience of economic liberalization in an era of globalization. This study asks what happened to a postcolonial middle class that was once the carrier of national aspirations and dreams. It explores how young middle-class professionals navigate Cairo's increasingly divided landscape and discusses the rise of a young upper-middle class presence in the work, le..
'Handled with care': Diffuse policing and the production of inequality in Amsterdam
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178675.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)The intersection of race and the criminal justice system has been a longstanding topic of activism, public debate and research in the US context. In recent years, European countries have also seen a growing social and academic debate about the way racialized minorities are policed. Based on ethnographic research in Amsterdam, this article argues that in order to understand such racialized policing, we have to go beyond a narrow focus on the police itself, and instead examine the broader institutional landscape tasked with security. This institutional landscape is made up of penal and welfare actors who together enact what I call diffuse policing. Such diffuse policing envelops targeted persons and spaces in a dense web of surveillance, and disciplinary and reform interventions that are hard to escape or challenge. This article explores the cumulative effects of this dense security landscape, and argues that it produces significant inequalities among youths in Amsterdam.21 p
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