Een hoofdkenmerk van de rechtsstaat is dat minderheden rechten hebben om de hegemonie van de meerderheidscultuur enigszins te matigen. Waarom moet de meerderheid daar dan weer rechten aan ontlenen, zoals rechts verontwaardigd roept?
Lees het essay op de site van de Groene Amsterdammer
“Right-wing discourses and issues of belonging and collective identity in Europe’s political and public spheres are often analysed in terms of Islamophobia, racism and populism. While acknowledging the value of these concepts, Kešić and Duyvendak argue that these discourses can be better understood through the logic of nativism. Their article opens with a conceptual clarification of nativism, which they define as an intense opposition to an internal minority that is seen as a threat to the nation due to its ‘foreignness’. This is followed by the analysis of nativism’s three subtypes: secularist nativism, problematizing particularly Islam and Muslims; racial nativism, problematizing black minorities; and populist nativism, problematizing ‘native’ elites. The authors show that the logic of nativism offers the advantages of both analytical precision and scope. The article focuses on the Dutch case as a specific illustration of a broader European trend.”
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“Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United States.
The contributors raise a broad range of questions about the nature and effects of super-diversity. They ask if a quantitative increase in demographic diversity makes a qualitative difference in how diversity is experienced in urban neighborhoods, and what are the consequences of demographic change when people from a wide range of countries and social backgrounds live together in urban neighborhoods. The question at the core of the book is to what extent, and in what contexts, super-diversity leads to either the normalization of diversity or to added hostility towards and amongst those in different ethnic, racial, and religious groups. In cases where there is no particular ethno-racial or religious majority, are certain long-established groups able to continue to exert economic and political power, and is this continued economic and political dominance actually often facilitated by super-diversity?
With contributions from a number of European countries as well as the USA, this book will be of interest to researchers studying contemporary migration and ethnic diversity. It will also spark discussion amongst those focusing on multiculturalism in urban environments. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.“
Zijn de dingen die we ‘gewoon’ vinden wel zo gewoon, hoe kunnen we het alledaagse filosofisch bevragen, en wat hebben we daar eigenlijk aan? Jan Willem Duyvendak bespreekt Thuis. Filosofische verkenningen van het alledaagse van Pieter Hoexum en onderzoekt wat er zo gewoon en tegelijkertijd zo bijzonder is aan thuisgevoel.
De beschouwing is vrij te lezen op de website van dNBg tot 11 oktober
Slow science is not about doing the same thing at a slower pace. No, it is about creating conditions that allow vital aspects of research to flourish: space to ask new questions, to uncover and reconsider assumptions, to doubt,” argued Rector Jan Willem Duyvendak during the Opening of the Academic Year 2019/20 in his celebration of slow science. “The gap between universities on the one hand and institutes such as NIAS on the other hand, has become too wide. Read more
Interview on the political uses of history, the relationship between scholarship and the background of the researchers, and inviting Ian Buruma. Since 2018, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences presents the Annual NIAS Lecture. NIAS provides a safe-haven for curiosity-driven research, and interdisciplinary slow science. Thereby, it engages with societal issues and contributes to current debates by organizing public events for a broad audience.
NIAS provides a free space for innovative and independent research. As scholars, it is our task to carefully collect and analyze empirical data. Instead of politicizing science and marginalizing it as ‘yet another opinion’ in the public arena, scientific findings should be used as basis for politics – also, or especially, when these findings do not endorse the status quo. NIAS, as an intellectual haven for slow science, wants to highlight the importance of independent historical, comparative research, while at the same time being reflexive on the ways in which research outcomes might be politically (ab)used. By approaching the Dutch presence in Indonesia through a global framework, we do not only go against the tendency of national exceptionalism, it allows us moreover to establish new understandings, contextual specificities and connections between different countries. Read the full interview
11 April, Instituto Cervantes, New York
Sociale menging is een voortdurend terugkerend thema in stedelijk beleid. Het politieke en maatschappelijke debat hierover verloopt moeizaam, omdat verschillende interpretaties van het begrip voortdurend over elkaar heen buitelen. Om meer scherpte te creëren, zou elke protagonist in het mengingsdebat zichzelf én anderen zeven vragen moeten stellen.
Meer dan ooit dragen burgers het hart op de tong. Denk aan hun woede als politici vluchtelingen in hun gemeente willen opnemen of aan de heftige taferelen rondom Zwarte Piet. Over het algemeen worden deze emotionele uitingen met bezorgdheid bekeken. Is dit terecht? Wat is de rol van emoties precies, en hoe verhouden zij zich tot de rede? Is de verhouding tussen emotie en rede daadwerkelijk verschoven? En zo ja, hoe zit dat precies?
In deze bundel onderzoeken filosofen, sociologen en historici de complexe rol van emoties in de Nederlandse politiek. Hoe vertolken politici de woede van burgers over de gaswinning in Groningen? Waarom spelen wraak en verontwaardiging een grotere rol in de discussie over het straffen van criminelen? Welke rol speelt hoop in de manier waarop beleidsmakers bijstandsontvangers aan het werk proberen te krijgen? Hoe worstelen klanten van voedselbanken met schaamte en schuid? Hoe laten zowel populisten als hun tegenstanders zich door angst leiden? Kan ressentiment een positieve kracht zijn? Alle essays laten zien dat emoties geen bijverschijnsel zijn van de politiek, maar haar vorm geven, ten goede of ten kwade. Gevoelens vormen de hartslag van de politiek en zonder emoties valt de democratie niet te begrijpen.
Duyvendak vindt het geen slimme zet van Rutte II om te bezuinigen op de zorg door de zorg de decentraliseren en verzorgingshuizen te sluiten. “Het beleid was veel te radicaal. Het is erdoor geduwd zonder eerst goede oplossingen te bedenken.” Ondanks de zorgen van instanties, wetenschappers en hulpverleners, zet minister Hugo de Jonge van Volksgezondheid het ingeslagen beleid voort. Afgelopen zomer publiceert hij zijn plannen voor de komende jaren. Titel van de nota: ‘Langer thuis.’