scholarly journals Fem spor i dødshjelpsdebatten

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Morten A. Horn ◽  
Morten Magelssen
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square

The assisted dying debate in the public square often involves talking past one another. Participants talk about what is important to themselves, without necessarily considering the other party’s arguments. Why is this so? We believe it is partly because the assisted dying debate actually consists of several more or less distinct “tracks”, all of which are important, but where not all are equally important to all participants. In this chapter, we outline the five main tracks of the assisted dying debate and show what characterises them and how they are expressed in the public debate.

Determinants of the Recognition of Foreign Certificates in Flanders

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-243
Author(s):  
Karen Stoffelen ◽  
Mohammad Salman
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Recognition ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract This article explores the assessment of foreign academic certificates in Flanders between January 2014 and February 2019. It examines data NARIC (National Academic and Professional Recognition and Information Centre) Flanders gathered on its applicants, their applications, and its subsequent decisions. As professional recognitions, providing access to regularised professions in Flanders, are given by the designated authorities in their field, it would go beyond the scope of this article. In the descriptive result part, graphs illustrate the distribution of several characteristics of the applicants, their applications, and the decisions. In the explanatory result part, logistic regression analyses explore the influence of these characteristics on the decision of NARIC Flanders. The goal of this article is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the procedures for the recognition of foreign certificates in Flanders; on the other hand, it aims to contribute to the public debate on the integration of migrants in the labour market.

scholarly journals Er det mulig å lage en entydig, rettferdig og forsvarlig dødshjelpslov?

2020 ◽  
pp. 291-309
Author(s):  
Morten A. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Question

The public debate about assisted dying follows several tracks. The most important political question is whether euthanasia should be legalised, and if so how it should be delimited, regulated and controlled. Is it even possible to create a law that delineates when assisted dying should be allowed and when it should be prohibited, in a clear, fair and safe way? This chapter proposes criteria that can be used to design an assisted dying law, and discusses how existing laws can be evaluated based on the criteria. Particular emphasis is placed on the recent Canadian assisted dying legislation, which, in the author’s view, has failed in all three areas.

Fy, skam dig ikke! Skam som sanktioneret og konstruktiv følelse i den offentlige debat

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (78) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Lisa Storm Villadsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Public Reaction

This article contributes to scholarship on emotions in political rhetoric by way of complicating commonly held ­views on which types of emotions are appropriate in public debate. The article examines the feeling shame from two perspectives, each rhetorically and critically oriented: one is analytical, the other theoretical. The case material comes from Danish politics where a group of celebrities stated to the press that they felt ashamed on account of Denmark’s policy regarding refugees and immigrants. Based in analysis of the public reaction from the Prime Minister I show how the feeling shame and those who felt it were marked as inappropriate from public debate. In the latter part of the article I theorize on negative emotions and shame in public rhetoric. Drawing on contemporary political philosophy and feminist and queer theory I argue for a more nuanced view on appeals to the emotion ­shame. Closer reflection suggests that it does not necessarily imply the destructive social distancing one would ordinarily expect but that it has potential as a marker of solidarity with the collective and as such can drive ethical reconsideration

Keeping Faith in the Public Square: An Autobiographical and Contextual Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-245
Author(s):  
Rose Hudson-Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Bear Witness

How do we live authentically as a people of faith within our secularized societies? The challenges to public representations of faith underline the tension between personal expression and corporate identity. This article argues for engagement in the public square that signifies being present in positive social action and change. Charles Mathewes's A Theology of Public Life offers a useful lens through which to interrogate this argument. Through biblical examples, we recognize the epicenter of this notion of engagement as relational, at an individual and a collective level. Faith intersecting with the public square emphasizes the recognition of the other and of their need, as well as our own identity as a people called to bear witness. This article explores this integrated and holistic approach that decompartmentalizes faith and affirms its rightful location in the public square.

scholarly journals 186 To tweet or not to tweet: what does science communication look like in 2019?

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Author(s):  
Sara E Place
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Food And Agriculture

Abstract We live in an era of increasing data availability, from technology that allows for precise and repeated measures of animal behavior and physiology outcomes to the constant posts on Facebook from that uncle we see once per year at Thanksgiving. While it may seem disingenuous to compare data collected in a controlled experiment to social media posts, which has a larger impact on society? If research results that are relevant to public square debates about food and agriculture, such as animal welfare and environmental sustainability, are only published in academic journals and read and understood by peers, how will they inform the public debate? If animal scientists are not actively engaged in sustained communication (two-way dialogue, not one-way lecturing) than an uncle’s Facebook post on factory farming may have a larger effect on the public debate than a carefully planned and executed experiment. In addition to data overload, we also seemingly have ever less time to process this data into meaningful and actionable information. As scientists, we are trained to interpret data into meaningful information. That skill is evermore needed and valuable to the public now. While engagement will look different depending upon each scientist’s discipline, skills, and willingness to engage, we should not expect it is someone else’s job to communicate the importance of animal science.

scholarly journals Engaged Anthropology and the Need for Empathy: Anthropological Interventions in the Face of the So-called Refugee Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-97
Author(s):  
Natalia Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Engaged Anthropology

This paper is an attempt to consider how engaged anthropology could be practiced in connection with the refugee/migrant crisis. The author presents in detail three anthropological interventions conducted in Poznań, a city in western Poland: (1) the project “We’re All Migrants: (Re)gained Migration Memory”; (2) the campaign “Adopt a Lifejacket”; and (3) the campaign “Gallery without a Home.” At the same time, she criticises the sedentary perspective predominant in the public debate regarding refugees and migrants, and the reduction of the refugee/migrant figure to the category of an Other. She perceives a need to depart from the role of expert and to stimulate empathy by making people aware of the adventitious nature of their lot in life and by emphasizing closeness to the other person rather than constantly focusing on differences. She points to the divergence between engaged and applied anthropology, and the related challenges facing anthropologists in Polish institutions who want to get involved in building social sensibility and interpersonal solidarity. She also calls for the propagation of hope.

scholarly journals JATI DIRI: YANG NASIONALIS DAN YANG RELIGIUS DALAM BINGKAI KEWARGANEGARAAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Bernard Subang Hayong
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Identity, as what defines one’s self directly, touches on the question of human existence: how we identify ourselves and affirm our identity and group admist plural reality as with the nation of Indonesia. Indonesian citizens affirm their identity which is religious and at the same time national. As citizens, on the one hand, we give rational reasons when making political demands, and not simply emotional preferences. On the other hand these reasons have a public quality, that is need to be capable of convincing people of various beliefs and nations. For this to take place there needs to be a discernment process between what is a personal faith matter and those convictions that need to be defended in the public square. <b>Kata-kata Kunci:</b> Jati diri, negara, agama, nalar publik, kesadaran, dialog, pluralitas.

scholarly journals Krig som kulturel velsignelse eller forbandelse? - Første verdenskrig i en nationalkonservativ dansk optik

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Bjarne Søndergaard Bendtsen
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heated Debate

Although Denmark managed to stay neutral throughout World War I, it nevertheless generated a heated debate in the country; most people took a clear stand for one side or the other. After the traumatic Danish defeat in the 1864 war with Prussia and Austria, Germany was regarded as the arch enemy and not unexpectedly mostDanes sided against the Central Powers in the public debate. This was not least the case amongst the national-conservative politicians, intellectuals and artists. They form the focus of my article, and the questions I address are: how did the national-conservatives experience the mental watershed of the war? Was it as a blessing or a curse?

The eighty-eighters: the arena of youth politics and the break-up of Yugoslavia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubica Spaskovska
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

The last chapter looks at the ways the Youth League initially sought to reform and re-invent its role and mission and was later subsumed in and divided by the wider Yugoslav political debates and developments in the country. The proposed statute changes which came out of the public debate organised by the SSOJ in 1989 reflected both the gap between the Slovenian, on the one hand, and the Serbian, the Montenegrin and the Army youth leagues, on the other, but also shed light on a spectrum of shared visions and values which existed among the other branches. The chapter reflects upon the (lack of) consensus about the dilemma of how to modernise Yugoslav society and the sphere of institutional youth politics and culture and shows how by the end of the decade the consensus on change and reform and the discourse of ‘pluralism of self-managing interests’ was almost entirely replaced by a new discourse of human rights and liberal values which foreshadowed the ‘exit from socialism’.

Nationalism vs. Nationalism: The Challenge of the Sweden Democrats in the Swedish Public Debate

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Hellström ◽  
Tom Nilsson ◽  
Pauline Stoltz
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
High Profile ◽  
General Elections ◽  
The Media ◽  
Swedish Politics

AbstractIn the 2010 Swedish general elections the nationalist party Sverigedemokraterna (SD) crossed the threshold and entered parliament. The other parties in parliament reacted with strong antagonism; the mainstreaming of the ‘radical right’ had finally come to Sweden. This article analyses the media coverage of the SD following the 2006 elections, when it emerged as a high-profile party in the public arena. The presence of the SD in Swedish politics encourages both SD allies and opponents to emphasize their views on what constitutes social cohesion in Sweden. We see the public debate surrounding the SD as a rhetorical struggle between different nationalist claims.

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