Social Security, Personhood, and the State

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keebet VON BENDA-BECKMANN
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
Appropriate Care ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper looks at the relationship between personhood and the state by taking a relational perspective both on the concept of personhood and on that of the state, and with a focus on social security. It presents a broad concept of social security. Based on research in the Moluccas of East Indonesia, and among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands, it is explained how social security shapes personhood in situations in which the state is only a minor contributor, and people depend on mechanisms other than support and care from the state. Finally, it will be explored how long-distance relations of social security are maintained and how the position that respective actors have within these relationships affects notions not only of appropriate care, but also of personhood.

scholarly journals Jews and Christians

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter M. Venter
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The State ◽  
Israel Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
State Of Israel

This review article of the collection of essays edited by M Van Campen and G C den Hertog deals with the question of the relationship between Jews and Christians. The publication, Israël, volk, land en staat, by the Centre for Israel Studies in the Netherlands is discussed. This article also summarises and comments on the views in the publication regarding the need for a dialogue between Christians and Jews, the election of Israel, its identity and alienation, the role of history and the meaning of the land and the State of Israel.

scholarly journals Internal coordination of social security in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
Febe de Jong ◽  
Gijsbert Vonk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
The State ◽  
Coordination Mechanisms

This article outlines the internal coordination of regional and local social security schemes in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a decentralised state with a strong central government. Social security is largely a matter for central government. The article therefore focuses on the area of social assistance and social care, characterised by a system of ‘regulated decentralisation’. It outlines the state of decentralisation, the conflict rules and the coordination mechanisms and, finally, describes the financial regime of the decentralised schemes.

scholarly journals Preface

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. v-ix ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexei Elfimov ◽  
Ullrich Kockel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Relationship

As the new century unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that contexts in which anthropology is practised as an established discipline, scholarly enterprise, applied endeavour, profession and intellectual pursuit keep changing, altering and transforming. The general aim in putting together this collection of essays was to test the state and condition of the relationship between anthropology and society in a number of countries where anthropological discourses and ethnographic activity have had a tangible presence in academia and beyond. Adopting a comparative approach – anthropology’s long-term companion – that we hoped would once again allow us to highlight where things have developed differently and where they seemed the same (or indeed were only equally illusorily), we asked leading practitioners from Austria, Brazil, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa and the United States to ponder the same, rather broadly posed, set of questions.

Abhängige Beschäftigung - ein Auslaufmodell?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Schlegel
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
The State ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Legal Term ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dependent Employment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Demarcation Criteria

The article deals with the legal term of dependent employment, which serves as a starting point for the collection of social security contributions. Its concretisation by the courts moves in a field of tension between the goal of legal certainty and a rapidly changing world of work in which forms of work and traditional demarcation criteria lose their shape. In addition, there is an acceptance problem with regard to social security as a whole if the state grants a comparable social security to persons who haven’t been paying contributions at all. Possible solutions include distance bans for contribution-financed social benefits, as well as the introduction of a social insurance for all gainfully employed persons, including the self-employed. At the same time, however, it is necessary to reorganise the relationship between citizens and the state and to strengthen individual responsibility.

Emotion Appraisals Predict Neuroticism and Extraversion

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Andrew Comensoli ◽  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
The State ◽  
The Relationship

The current study proposes and refines the Appraisals in Personality (AIP) model in a multilevel investigation of whether appraisal dimensions of emotion predict differences in state neuroticism and extraversion. University students (N = 151) completed a five-factor measure of trait personality, and retrospectively reported seven situations from the previous week, giving state personality and appraisal ratings for each situation. Results indicated that: (a) trait neuroticism and extraversion predicted average levels of state neuroticism and extraversion respectively, and (b) five of the examined appraisal dimensions predicted one, or both of the state neuroticism and extraversion personality domains. However, trait personality did not moderate the relationship between appraisals and state personality. It is concluded that appraisal dimensions of emotion may provide a useful taxonomy for quantifying and comparing situations, and predicting state personality.

Politics and Identity in Alevi Kurds: An interview with Martin van Bruinessen

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Umit Cetin ◽  
Celia Jenkins ◽  
Suavi AYDIN
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Diasporic Communities

This interview with Martin van Bruinessen records his personal and intellectual engagement with Alevis in Turkey and the Netherlands for over fifty years. Initially, his interest was in Anatolian Alevi culture and he began exploring the religious dimension of Alevism in the 1970s at a time when Alevis were more preoccupied with left-wing politics. He charts the emergence of Alevism studies since the 1980s and links it to the religious resurgence and reinvention of diverse ethno-religious Alevi identities associated with urbanised and diasporic communities. He further examines the relationship between Kurdish and Alevi movements and Alevism and Islam.

The Open Society and the Democracy to Come: Bergson, Deleuze and Guattari

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Baugh
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The People ◽  
To Come ◽  
Polar Opposite ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Gain Access

In Bergsonism, Deleuze refers to Bergson's concept of an ‘open society’, which would be a ‘society of creators’ who gain access to the ‘open creative totality’ through acting and creating. Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy is oriented toward the goal of such an open society. This would be a democracy, but not in the sense of the rule of the actually existing people, but the rule of ‘the people to come,’ for in the actually existing situation, such a people is ‘lacking’. When the people becomes a society of creators, the result is a society open to the future, creativity and the new. Their openness and creative freedom is the polar opposite of the conformism and ‘herd mentality’ condemned by Deleuze and Nietzsche, a mentality which is the basis of all narrow nationalisms (of ethnicity, race, religion and creed). It is the freedom of creating and commanding, not the Kantian freedom to obey Reason and the State. This paper uses Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, and Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: For a Minor Literature, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy? to sketch Deleuze and Guattari's conception of the open society and of a democracy that remains ‘to come’.

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