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When doing your best is not good enough: Shaping recognition in sheltered workshops: The interplay of activating institutions, professionals, co-workers and a sociologist
No full textLabour market participation holds a big promise: it would give financial, social and emotional gains like recognition. This holds also, or maybe especially, for people with mild intellectual disabilities who have suffered (and often still suffer) from social exclusion. But when policy proclaims that everybody should be able to feel valued and recognised, what is often underestimated is the power of institutions to narrowly define the ways in which people can be recognised. In her dissertation, Melissa Sebrechts focuses on the experiences of recognition of young men working in sheltered workshops in the Netherlands and Portugal. Such experiences appear to be shaped by the interplay of activating institutions, professionals, the workers, and herself, the researcher. Through intensive periods of participant observation, the author traces the different forms that recognition empirically takes, and the sometimes-explosive unintended consequences that arise in the Dutch workshops. An individualising discourse of participation limits young men’s possibilities to feel recognised, driving them to seek recognition through other, streetwise, channels. The Portuguese case serves as a contrasting case to refine and strengthen the link between discourse and experiences of recognition. It shows how a more communalising discourse of participation gives rise to forms of recognition that — under current labour market conditions — are more accessible and inclusive to the workers in the sheltered workshops. Theoretically, the thesis seeks to contribute to the ‘sociologisation’ of recognition. On the level of policy it argues for letting ‘love’ play a bigger role on the work floor
When doing your best is not good enough:Shaping recognition in sheltered workshops: The interplay of activating institutions, professionals, co-workers and a sociologist
No full textLabour market participation holds a big promise: it would give financial, social and emotional gains like recognition. This holds also, or maybe especially, for people with mild intellectual disabilities who have suffered (and often still suffer) from social exclusion. But when policy proclaims that everybody should be able to feel valued and recognised, what is often underestimated is the power of institutions to narrowly define the ways in which people can be recognised. In her dissertation, Melissa Sebrechts focuses on the experiences of recognition of young men working in sheltered workshops in the Netherlands and Portugal. Such experiences appear to be shaped by the interplay of activating institutions, professionals, the workers, and herself, the researcher. Through intensive periods of participant observation, the author traces the different forms that recognition empirically takes, and the sometimes-explosive unintended consequences that arise in the Dutch workshops. An individualising discourse of participation limits young men’s possibilities to feel recognised, driving them to seek recognition through other, streetwise, channels. The Portuguese case serves as a contrasting case to refine and strengthen the link between discourse and experiences of recognition. It shows how a more communalising discourse of participation gives rise to forms of recognition that — under current labour market conditions — are more accessible and inclusive to the workers in the sheltered workshops. Theoretically, the thesis seeks to contribute to the ‘sociologisation’ of recognition. On the level of policy it argues for letting ‘love’ play a bigger role on the work floor
Vervoermiddelgebruik bij woonforensen uit kleine kernen
No full textom meer inzicht in oorzakelijke factoren teneinde effectieve maatregelen te kunnen nemen ter bestr~ding van de negatieve effecten hiervan. Onze kennis van de samenstelling en ruimtelijke oriëntatie van de interlocale verplaatsingsbehoefte van personen, en van de wijzigingen hierin, is nog steeds erg beperkt. Het Onderzoeksinstituut voor Stedebouw, Planologie en Architectuur van de Technische Universiteit Delft rekent het tot haar taak de kennis op dit gebied te vergroten. Recentelijk hebben diverse studies hieraan een bijdrage geleverd. Zo zijn onder meer de externe personenvervoersrelaties van de vier grote agglomeraties in kaart gebracht. In een andere studie was het verplaatsingenpatroon met betrekking tot de middelgrote steden het onderwerp van studie. Beide studies zijn (mede) in opdracht van de Dienst Verkeerskunde van de Rijkswaterstaat uitgevoerd. Het onderhavige rapport doet verslag van een onderzoek dat op deze traditie voortbouwt. Na de grote en middelgrote steden staan nu de kleinere kernen centraal. Ook deze studie is in opdracht van de Dienst Verkeerskunde uitgevoerd. Het belang van de kleine kernen voor het landelijke verplaatsingspatroon is onder meer dat het er zoveel zijn en dat het merendeel van de bevolking er woont en het overgrote deel van de interlocale verplaatsingen er vandaan komt. De auteurs zijn Dr. A.I.J.M. van der Hoorn van de Dienst Verkeerskunde Rijkswaterstaat erkentelijk voor zijn kritische en constructieve begeleiding van dit onderzoek.OTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
