Taking racism beyond Dutch innocence

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682097889
Author(s):  
Halleh Ghorashi
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
The Status ◽  
Open Versus

Explicit racism’s increased presence in Dutch public space did not lead to public recognition of the existence of structural forms of racism in the Netherlands until recently. Previously, I argued this denial was historically rooted in the construction of the Dutch self-image as charitable and open versus the framing of migrants as “weak”, “disadvantaged” others who need help from the majority group. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement changed this denial of structural racism in the Netherlands. Never before have structural forms of racism been addressed so widely and cross-racially in the Dutch public space and within institutions. Additionally, awareness of structural racism is growing among non-White young professionals, who previously thought their exclusion from or marginalisation within Dutch society was due to personal inability and lack of strategies to “adapt”. The increasing calls against institutional racism in the Netherlands mean unsettling the status quo and creating inclusionary spaces and practices.

scholarly journals Can Social Justice Live in a House of Structural Racism? A Question for the Field of Evaluation

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon D. Caldwell ◽  
Katrina L. Bledsoe
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Behavior Modification ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
Learned Behaviors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Professional Evaluation

This article questions whether social justice can live within the structural racism present in the field of evaluation. Structural racism refers to the totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice. In order for social justice to be a professional standard of evaluation, the field must recognize, identify, and modify persistent learned behaviors associated with structural racism. We assert that all evaluators, regardless of demographic designation, are subject to perpetuating structural and institutional racism, found in the history and systems of the profession, by tacitly accepting the status quo norms of evaluation practice. Current norms, policies, and practices compromise the normalization of social justice in evaluation. Evaluators sanctioned and reinforced by their professional association, the American Evaluation Association, have the power to modify behaviors of evaluators that perpetuate social injustice in the discipline and field of professional evaluation. We highlight pioneering literature that intellectually protest and position paradigm shifts for equity. We acknowledge the presence of racial and ethnic colleagues, and professional statements about social justice as confrontations to structural racism found in the history and systems of the evaluation field. Finally, we propose a framework for professional behavior modification as a strategy for the extinction of structural racism in evaluation and assert that social justice can only be realized when structural racism is eradicated.

Privileged Caste?

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-55
Author(s):  
Duncan McCargo
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Status ◽  
Unrealistic Expectations

This chapter examines what it means to be a Thai judge, and why judges think and behave in the ways they do. Most Thai judges are honest, hardworking, and well intentioned, dedicated to a lifelong career in public service that provides them with financial security but offers no prospect of worldly riches or fame. Yet despite their self-image as an exceptionally talented elite, not all judges excel at the business of judging. Many court judgments are flawed: their shortcomings are ameliorated by a system of close monitoring by senior administrators. Judges tend to believe that a combination of their rigorous selection procedures and their most favored status with the palace inoculates them against temptations and human failings: in short, they become the embodiment of virtuous legalism. Especially in recent years, the discourse of judicialization has fostered unrealistic expectations of the judiciary and placed judges under impossible pressures. As such, when Thai judges preside over cases brought against critics of the state, they struggle to distinguish between their formal role as neutral arbiters, and their own intimate affiliations with the monarchy and deep attachment to the status quo. Trying political cases places Thai judges in an extremely uncomfortable position.

scholarly journals The Netherlands Is on Track to Meet the World Health Organization Hepatitis C Elimination Targets by 2030

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 4562
Author(s):  
Marleen van Dijk ◽  
Sylvia M. Brakenhoff ◽  
Cas J. Isfordink ◽  
Wei-Han Cheng ◽  
Hans Blokzijl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
World Health ◽  
Decompensated Cirrhosis ◽  
Gradual Decline ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Health Organization

Background: The Netherlands strives for hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination, in accordance with the World Health Organization targets. An accurate estimate when HCV elimination will be reached is elusive. We have embarked on a nationwide HCV elimination project (CELINE) that allowed us to harvest detailed data on the Dutch HCV epidemic. This study aims to provide a well-supported timeline towards HCV elimination in The Netherlands. Methods: A previously published Markov model was used, adopting published data and unpublished CELINE project data. Two main scenarios were devised. In the Status Quo scenario, 2020 diagnosis and treatment levels remained constant in subsequent years. In the Gradual Decline scenario, an annual decrease of 10% in both diagnoses and treatments was implemented, starting in 2020. WHO incidence target was disregarded, due to low HCV incidence in The Netherlands (≤5 per 100,000). Results: Following the Status Quo and Gradual Decline scenarios, The Netherlands would meet WHO’s elimination targets by 2027 and 2032, respectively. From 2015 to 2030, liver-related mortality would be reduced by 97% in the Status Quo and 93% in the Gradual Decline scenario. Compared to the Status Quo scenario, the Gradual Decline scenario would result in 12 excess cases of decompensated cirrhosis, 18 excess cases of hepatocellular carcinoma, and 20 excess cases of liver-related death from 2020–2030. Conclusions: The Netherlands is on track to reach HCV elimination by 2030. However, it is vital that HCV elimination remains high on the agenda to ensure adequate numbers of patients are being diagnosed and treated.

A future for our digital memory: born-digital cultural heritage in the Netherlands

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Inge Angevaare
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Digital Memory ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

This article provides an overview of the status quo with regard to collecting and preserving born-digital cultural heritage objects in the Netherlands. Since there, as elsewhere, the cultural heritage sector is still grappling with the realities of web 2.0, the article also offers some more speculative thoughts on where web 2.0 may take us, as well as some practical suggestions for the next steps cultural heritage organisations could take.

scholarly journals Lesson Study in Vocational Education and Training

R&E-SOURCE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mewald
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Online Course ◽  
The Status ◽  
Innovation And Change ◽  
And Training

This paper introduces the ERASMUS+ project LS4VET, which aims to develop a Lesson Study model for the VET sector with the goal to encourage innovation and change in vocational education by creating an open-online course to support collaborative professionalism for VET educators. The status quo of Lesson Study in the four partner countries Austria, Hungary, Malta, and the Netherlands is described and an outlook on the development of a Lesson Study model for VET is given.

scholarly journals Blondes have Less Fun, Actually: Depictions of Traditional Femininity in the Post-Zombie Apocalypse Metropolis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Rose Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
Traditional Femininity ◽  
Civilized Society

Introduction Rarely in our world, in what we believe to be “modern,” “civilized” society, is chaos considered desirable. Order is what we strive for instead: it gives us our government, the social systems upon which we rely, and shapes the structure of our daily lives. While in the abstract, chaos can seem like an exciting, even desirable departure from the status quo, in the context of a global pandemic (like the one through which we are currently living), disorder and uncertainty often prove more terrifying than the virus itself. Which stores will close, and for how long? Who exactly is at risk of infection? When will we be allowed to see our friends again? Chaos, in this context, becomes the enemy of societal survival, threatening humanity’s civilized self-image and testing communal ideals. Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and M.R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts both use the pandemic setting to investigate ideas about chaos and its relationship to civilization, but their pathogen of choice is no ordinary infective. In both books, a zombie crisis is responsible for the destruction of humanity as we know it, making tangible anxieties about how we define ourselves in opposition to one another, and what it really means to be “civilized.”

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