scholarly journals The Process Leading to Physician Activism for Sustainable Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10003
Author(s):  
Efraïm Hart ◽  
Giliam Kuijpers ◽  
Glenn Laverack ◽  
Fedde Scheele
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Professional Skill ◽  
Sustainable Change ◽  
Health Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
Speak Up ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

Health systems all over the world are in a process of transition and may even need a paradigm shift for sustainable development. This is where activism may play a role. This study focused on why some physicians become activists and how these physicians have either achieved successes or failed to do so. This study is inspired by grounded theory. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted to evaluate the experiences of seven purposefully sampled physician-activists from the Netherlands. Our research suggests that activism originates from an awareness of problems in the area of health inequalities, resulting in moral discomfort combined with a strong drive to speak up against perceived failings, even when personal risks may be involved. Activists that were most successful in achieving political and health changes meandered effectively along the borders of the system, taking care to preserve ties with supporters within that system and, at the same time, taking a relatively isolated position while using strategies to oppose the system. Diverging too much from the system resulted in measures taken by the system to silence them. Successful activism may be regarded as a social and professional skill that may be learned.

scholarly journals Between Knowledge, Belief and Desire, Green Utopia and Its Application

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hooman Foroughmand Araabi ◽  
Maryam Khabazi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Complicated System ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Future Vision

Nowadays despite multifarious prescriptions of sustainable development, there is an approach of sustainable values in any development's agenda. Considering the paradigm shift from the modern idea of growth, which had been considered to be able to compensate any negative effect of growth, to postmodern paradigm of development, which is obsessed about nature conservation, this article has made a model for green utopia. Three different but related factors are forming the utopia: knowledge, beliefs and desire. Human knowledge of the nature (as a complicated system) is forming this Green Future vision, knowledge vividly pictures a dystopia if the world denied following the knowledge, as well. In addition to knowledge, our beliefs play an important role. The last and the most important source of this utopia is human desire, unlike its predecessors it is not perfect. The conclusion of this article is a model for a green or sustainable utopia that is achieved through this study. Debating on different statements applications tries to optimize the utopia.

The Amnesty Adventure; Amnesty International's Police Group in the Netherlands

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet Van Reenen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

The Dutch section of Amnesty International has a group of police officers working for human rights. This group, the professional group of police, is one of the various professional groups that AI has. As a police group it is unique in the world. In this article, the history and the activities of the group are described and the success-factors indicated. An attempt is made to answer the question why such a group could develop in the Netherlands and why efforts to do so elsewhere have mainly failed.

scholarly journals Teocentrismo, Antropocentrismo y Contabilidad: de la Edad Media al Renacimiento

2022 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Susana Villaluenga de Gracia ◽  
Inmaculada Llibrer-Escrig ◽  
Fernando-Gabriel Gutiérrez-Hidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Know How ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Entry ◽  
Double Entry ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Middle Ages

The change in the accounting method from single entry to double entry in the 15th century has been tried to explain by the influence of some different issues such as the appearance of capitalism or by the contact of Italy with other peoples. However, none of them has been able to do so satisfactorily. That is why this work, tries to show how this accounting change could be pushed by a paradigm shift: the philosophical and religious perception of the world and its passed from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will be seen using a qualitative methodology which helps to know how the methods of charge and discharge and double entry respond to the prevailing ways of thinking in which they developed. The first one, can be associated with a Theocentric thought, typical of the Middle Ages, and the second one, double entry bookkeeping, philosophical viewpoint that are the are the most important entity in the world, which is characteristic of the Renaissance. El cambio del método contable de la partida simple a la doble en el siglo XV se ha intentado explicar por la influencia de diferentes factores como la aparición del capitalismo o por el contacto de Italia con otros pueblos. Sin embargo, ninguno de ellos aisladamente, lo ha podido hacer de forma satisfactoria. Por lo tanto, utilizando una metodología cualitativa, este trabajo intenta arrojar luz indagando cómo este cambio contable se pudo deber a un cambio en la percepción filosófica y religiosa del mundo, al pasarse de la Edad Media al Renacimiento. Se verá cómo los métodos del cargo y descargo y de la partida doble responden a las formas de pensamiento imperantes en el que se desarrollaron. En consecuencia, que partida simple se puede asociar a un pensamiento Teocéntrico, propio de la Edad Media, y que la partida doble se puede relacionar con el Antropocéntrico característico del Renacimiento.

scholarly journals Discourses and Educational Initiatives for Developing Sustainability Competences of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (99) ◽  
pp. 917-943
Author(s):  
Robson Malacarne ◽  
Janette Brunstein
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
The World ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
World Business Council ◽  
The Way

Abstract The adoption of the logic of developing sustainable development (SD) competences in the business environment has grown both in the literature in the area and in business initiative programs. One player that emerges with the aim of assuming leadership in this process is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This article aims to answer the following research question: Are the WBCSD’s discourses and initiatives for developing sustainability competences spaces of various translations of corporate sustainability or a place for reaffirming logocentric and definitive discourses on the theme? For this, we analyzed the institutional documents (Vision 2050 and Action 2020) and carried out a series of on-site visits at the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs. In addition, we conducted a set of in-depth interviews with the managers and participants in the initiatives for developing sustainability competences (DSC). The data were analyzed according to the categories of Derrida’s deconstruction process. The analysis of the educational initiatives of the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs showed that they include the various discourses on corporate sustainability in their formative approach; however, logocentric and definitive thinking about the theme is reaffirmed in that the way the Vision 2050 guidelines are carried out is limited to the application of management tools.

Rethinking protected area categories and the new paradigm

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARVEY LOCKE ◽  
PHILIP DEARDEN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Do So

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) plays a global leadership role in defining different types of protected areas, and influencing how protected area systems develop and are managed. Following the 1992 World Parks Congress, a new system of categorizing protected areas was developed. New categories were introduced, including categories that allowed resource extraction. Since that time there has been rapid growth in the global numbers and size of protected areas, with most growth being shown in the new categories. Further-more, the IUCN has heralded a ‘new paradigm’ of protected areas, which became the main focus of the 2003 World Parks Congress. The paradigm focuses on benefits to local people to alleviate poverty, re-engineering protected areas professionals, and an emphasis on the interaction between humans and nature through a focus on the new IUCN protected area categories.The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the implications of the new categories and paradigm shift in light of the main purpose of protected areas, to protect wild biodiversity. Wild biodiversity will not be well served by adoption of this new paradigm, which will devalue conservation biology, undermine the creation of more strictly protected reserves, inflate the amount of area in reserves and place people at the centre of the protected area agenda at the expense of wild biodiversity. Only IUCN categories I–IV should be recognized as protected areas. The new categories, namely culturally modified landscapes (V) and managed resource areas (VI), should be reclassified as sustainable development areas. To do so would better serve both the protection of wild biodiversity and those seeking to meet human needs on humanized landscapes where sustainable development is practised.

Organizing While Undocumented

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Escudero
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Undocumented Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The World ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

Undocumented immigrants in the United States who take part in social movement activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. Despite this risk, undocumented immigrant youth have been at the forefront of the national movement for immigrant rights. In their activism these youth have leveraged their identities as immigrants but also as queer individuals, people of color, and women. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Asian undocumented, undocumented and queer (undocuqueer), and formerly undocumented activists, Organizing While Undocumented examines these activists’ cultivation of and strategic use of an intersectional movement identity. Through the development of the Identity Mobilization Model, the book highlights three critical strategies that undocumented immigrant youth have utilized when deploying an intersectional movement identity. Ultimately, this book argues that undocumented immigrant youth have challenged the notion that their immigration status wholly defines their lived experiences and, in the process, emphasized the importance of their multiple social identities. This emphasis has in turn allowed undocumented activists to connect their struggle to a broader set of social justice struggles taking place in the world today.

Winning after Winning: The Psychology of Ongoing Excellence

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Kreiner-Phillips ◽  
Terry Orlick
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of success on athletes who reached the top of the world in their sport. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 17 world champion athletes, representing 7 different sports and 4 different countries. All athletes, 11 males and 6 females, had won major international competitions (World Cup, World Championships, and/or Olympic Games) between the years 1964 and 1988. The number of individual World Cup wins ranged from 1 to 86. The results indicate that athletes who became the best in their sport, subsequently experienced many additional demands. Most had little or no assistance in dealing with these demands. Approximately one third of these athletes coped well with the additional demands and continued to win. The remaining two thirds did not handle the additional demands as well and either never repeated their winning performance or took a significant amount of time to do so. Strategies to help prepare future champions to handle the demands of winning are suggested.

Het rechtsvormingsproces inzake euthanasie in België : Politieke verklaringen en vergelijkende beschouwingen

Res Publica ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-625
Author(s):  
Maurice Adams
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Change ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Do So

On the 16th of May 2002, the Belgian House of Representatives approved of a Bill on euthanasia. Belgium is now the second country in the world, next to the Netherlands, that has legislation which under certain conditions legitimizes euthanasia (i.e. intentionally terminating life by another person than the person concerned, at this persons request). In this article the Belgian legislative procedure on euthanasia is looked upon from a political point of view. To be able do so first of all the legal context on euthanasia before the new bill was approved of has to be discussed. Then the political history of the process of legal change with regard to euthanasia is analysed from 1980 onwards. And finally the Belgian process of legal change on this subject is compared with the process of legal change in the Netherlands.

scholarly journals Quarrelling and Protesting: How Organizers Shape a Demonstration

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marije Boekkooi ◽  
Bert Klandermans ◽  
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The World ◽  
War In Iraq ◽  
Depth Interviews

On February 15, 2003, about 20 million people around the world protested against the imminent war in Iraq. In the Netherlands, 70,000 people marched in the streets of Amsterdam. This study focuses on the organization and mobilization processes preceding this event in Amsterdam. We trace how the organizers' attempts to form a coalition and the quarrels that ensued affected mobilization efforts, composition of the demonstration, media attention, and, subsequently, how and when participants were mobilized. We argue that, although infrequently studied, the specific ways that initial mobilization structures are formed are critical factors in the trajectory of mobilization. We use in-depth interviews with the organizers, newspaper content analyses, and survey data from participants to trace these effects.

scholarly journals Places that Matter: Place Attachment and Wellbeing of Older Antillean Migrants in the Netherlands

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Lager ◽  
Bettina Van Hoven ◽  
Louise Meijering
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Older Migrants ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

It has been argued that attachment to place increases wellbeing in old age (Wiles et al., 2009). Feeling ‘in place’ can increase an older person's wellbeing. For older migrants it can be a challenge to live in-between cultures. The objective of the article is to explore how older Antillean migrants derive a sense of wellbeing from attachment to their everyday places. We do so by drawing on in-depth interviews and a photography project with Antilleans who live in a senior cohousing community in a city in the Northern Netherlands. Based on the study, we conclude that the cohousing community acted as a central setting of experience from which the participants explored their wider surroundings and developed new attachments in the neighbourhood.

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