Reanimatieverklaring

In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op de casus van meneer Graas, 80 jaar. Hij wordt met de ziekte van Parkinson opgenomen in een zorginstelling voor langdurige zorg. Tijdens de intake komt het gesprek op het onderwerp wel of niet reanimeren. Meneer Graas en ook zijn zoon twijfelen. Hoe en wie moet dit gesprek met de cliënt en zijn naasten aangaan

Humanism in Crisis:A New Draft of Humanist Philosophy

In his speech ‘Humanism in crisis’, Christoph Henning examines how humanism can be reconceived today. To do this, we first have to be sureof philosophy as a method: what can philosophy still accomplish today? He defines it as an approach that neither lectures people nor arrogantly ignores other opinions, but first listens and does justice to diverse views. We need to understand why many people no longer have faith in humanism. Their experiences need to be taken seriously. But he draws another conclusion: There are many crises that point us back to a renewed humanism as a unification of humankind. Without it, the dangers we will be exposed to in the future cannot be addressed: the global climate crisis, the erosion of minimum political standards and the loss of human standards by new technologies. It is essential to understand humans as vulnerable beings who are dependent on nature and each other and who must unite if we are to pass the tests of the coming times

‘We willen hier nooit meer weg’:Een onderzoek naar ervaringen met sociale contacten en zingeving in seniorenwooncomplexen te Bennekom, Wageningen en Rotterdam

De Nederlandse overheid stimuleert dat ouderen zo lang mogelijk zelfstandig blijven wonen en de meeste ouderen willen dat zelf ook. Om in de behoefte aan zelfstandige woonruimte te voorzien kent Nederland een groot aantal wooncomplexen die specifiek voor ouderen zijn bedoeld. Deze complexen beschikken vaak over extra voorzieningen, zoals een gemeenschappelijke ruimte waar bewoners elkaar kunnen ontmoeten en deel kunnen nemen aan gezamenlijke activiteiten.Dit onderzoek richt zich op de vraag wat er gebeurt in je leven als je de stap zet van het huis waarin je zo lang woonde, wellicht met je gezin, naar een appartement binnen een seniorencomplex. En als je er eenmaal woont, hoe ga je dan om met de spanning tussen de autonomie waarnaar je verlangt en de verbondenheid waaraan je behoefte hebt

Exploring the ICTY as Cultural Heritage: From Frozen Archive to Multidirectional Memory Practice

The past decennia have shown an increase in ad hoc international law institutions. Although some of them are now reaching the end of their lifespan, the afterlife of tribunals remains relatively unknown. How can the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), located in The Hague, as a site of cultural heritage representing layered narratives, be transformed into a place of multidirectional memory? This entry starts with identifying six narratives that the ICTY has accumulated during its lifespan and explores which areas of peace and justice were not addressed by the ICTY—but could be in a place of cultural heritage. We then conceptualize the potential of this afterlife of the tribunal as both a legal institution and an archive. The entry concludes by exploring how artistic representations of the ICTY can help understand its potential as a heritage site and develop it into a multidirectional place of memory that will keep growing and expanding our imaginations during its afterlife. The ICTY-as-heritage might gain a richness in relations and stories that could result in a deeper understanding of its history and future. Starting with the (material) evidence and (archival) silences and moving to reflections on the more symbolic meaning of the tribunal as a promise for peace and justice, artistic interventions complexify the ICTY’s narratives. These interventions also have the power to change the story of the tribunal. The ICTY has had a very specific trajectory. Nevertheless, it could inspire more creative thinking on the cultural afterlife of tribunals everywhere

Rituele verbinding op scholen. Kansen en aandachtpunten voor geestelijk verzorgers

Op welke manieren kunnen rituelen verbindend werken in openbare scholen in het voortgezet onderwijs? In dit artikel presenteren wij de uitkomsten van een verkennend, kwalitatief onderzoek naar nieuwe rituelen. In de plurale samenleving kunnen vragen ontstaan hoe een schoolgemeenschap gevormd en versterkt kan worden door rituelen. Geestelijk verzorgers kunnen als zingevingsexperts een educatieve en adviserende rol spelen voor openbare scholen die behoefte hebben aan meer rituele sensitiviteit

‘Unburden us and them’:Encountering ‘the other’ in meetings between Bosnian genocide survivors and Dutch UN veterans

Recently, 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

Demonstreren kun je leren. Zo doen ze het in Servië

Haar generatie weet zich niet goed raad met demonstraties zoals komende zaterdag in Amsterdam tegen fascisme en racisme, schrijft Niké Wentholt. Haar advies: kijk eens over de grens, naar de recordbetoging in Servië afgelopen weekeinde