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Network Nation part of Else/Where Mapping, new cartographies of networks and territories; edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, University of Minnesota Press 2006.
Sinterklaasrel in Maastricht. Escaleert het Limburgs nationalisme? artikel in DDL op 6 december 2007.
Keeping it Local is een onderzoeksproject van het Fashion Research & Technology Lectoraat aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. In dit ‘levend laboratorium’ wordt onderzoek gedaan naar co-creatie, lokale productie in een stedelijke omgeving en duurzaam consumentengedrag. Wij produceren 3D-gebreide truien, geïnspireerd op de traditionele visserstruien. Net zoals hun traditionele voorgangers, vertellen deze truien het verhaal van lokale gemeenschappen: de enige Amsterdamse commerciële Noordzeevisser Hendrik Kramer en bemanning, studenten Cultureel Erfgoed van de Reinwardt Academie, studenten HBO-ICT van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en modestudenten van het AMFI.Met een mix van traditionele en computergegenereerde patronen vertellen de truien over het leven in Amsterdam en de toekomst van de visserij, de mode-industrie, ICT en cultureel erfgoed anno 2023. Ze zijn ontworpen voor en in samenwerking met de bovengenoemde gemeenschappen.Gevestigd op de Amstel Campus van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam, omvat onze productieketen ontwerp, productie en verkoop. We volgen onze consumenten om te weten te komen hoe ze hun trui 'behandelen' na het verkooppunt. Want leidt zo’n door en voor jou gemaakte trui tot een hechtere emotionele band met jouw trui en vervolgens tot duurzamer kledinggedrag?Door gebruik te maken van een geavanceerde 3D-breitechniek is het mogelijk om lokaal en op bestelling te produceren. Dit voorkomt overproductie en mogelijke verspilling door onverkochte truien. Daarom hangen er alleen pasmodellen in de winkel: consumenten kunnen binnenlopen om de truien van dichtbij te zien, te voelen, te passen en te bestellen. Vervolgens wordt de trui speciaal voor de drager gebreid.Onze productieketen wordt niet alleen volledig gerund door het project, maar is ook 'ultra lokaal'. De afstand tussen het punt van ontwerp, het 3D-Knitlab waar de truien worden geproduceerd en de University Store waar ze worden verkocht is slechts 300 meter. Dit geeft ons de kans om te experimenteren in een levensechte omgeving en 'op de knoppen te drukken' in elke fase van de keten om te zien waar en hoe we dit project duurzamer kunnen maken.
Eutropolis is an everchanging utopian vision for the Euregion Meuse-Rhine, an international region. A vision about to make borders fade.
Stefan Bengtsson's commentary about policy hegemony discusses the alternative discourses of socialism, nationalism, and globalism. However, Stefan does not adequately demonstrate how these discourses can overcome the Dominant Western Worldview (DWW), which is imbued with anthropocentrism. It will be argued here that most policy choices promoting sustainability, and education for it, are made within a predetermined system in which the already limiting notion of environmental protection is highly contingent on human welfare. What would really contest the dominant assumptions of Vietnamese policy and, more specifically, education for sustainable development (ESD) is an alternative discourse that challenges the DWW. That alternative discourse embraces philosophical ecocentrism and practices of ecological justice between all species, and deep ecology theory - all perspectives fundamentally committed to environmental protection. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2015.1048502 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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Scientific research from within and beyond academia continues to provide the justification and the knowledge for policy developments directed toward migration and integration governance. A proliferation of scholarship aims to study, pilot, and investigate the ‘best practices’ for facilitating integration, which is then taken up in advice to policy makers. Many authors have written about this science-policy nexus (Boswell 2009; Penninx, Garcés-Mascareñas, and Scholten 2005; Scholten et al. 2015; Verbeek, Entzinger, and Scholten 2015) These works have also engaged in critical reflection, problematizing this nexus and demonstrating how funding structures draw researchers not only into addressing short-term policy goals, but also into reproducing some of the essentialist worldviews that come with methodological nationalism (Wimmer and Glick Schiller 2002) and the ‘national order of things’ (Malkki 1995). Yet, the colonial legacies and dis/continuities of these logics in integrationism have not received much attention so far.The paper takes a critical lens on the implications of the science-policy complicity in reproducing colonial logics of ‘cultural distance’, based on perspectives and empirical research from different national (Netherlands and Switzerland) and supra-national (EU) contexts. We analyse texts which shape the civic integration programme in the Netherlands, the genealogy of the integration requirement to respect the values of the constitution in Switzerland, and the EU framework on migrant integration. This combined analysis brings forth the role scientists and knowledge producers play in (re)producing the colonial logics within integrationism, and their contributions to the regime of truth within which integration discourse operates. Throughout this article, we draw on examples from these different contexts to display that integration and its migranticized (Dahinden 2016) subjects are constructed through practices deemed as scientific or objective expertise, building on important work by Schinkel (2018) on integration research as “neocolonial knowledge production” and Favell’s (2022) critical reflections on integration indicator frameworks. As we demonstrate, the “idea of integration as an issue of cultural distance is rendered imaginable in and through colonial legacies and scientific practices from which policy draws legitimacy. We show how cultural distance is produced in the scientification of migrants’ assimilability in a ‘Western work ethic’, in measurement of migrants’ adherence to liberal values, and through constructions of integration drawing on social imaginaries of national and European identity. Importantly, we argue that by presenting this cultural distance as a product of objective, scientific processes of empirical observation, the notion of cultural distance is normalised and depoliticized, which ultimately legitimizes integrationism as a mode of governance.The present study builds on important contributions (by Schinkel 2017; Favell 2022; Korteweg 2017; Bonjour and Duyvendak 2017, and others) in attempting to destabilize the normalization of integrationism as the widely accepted mode of governance of ‘immigrant’ or ‘ethnic’ populations and their inherent and problematic ‘distance’. The content and structure of this summer school in post-colonial Amsterdam would allow us to continue our critical reflexive discussions to better understand the colonial logics at play and how they operate in multiple contexts and at multiple levels of governance, in and beyond integration
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This paper explores America’s fascination with protectionism and economic nationalism, and argues that much of Donald J. Trump’s political-economic vision as 45th president of the United States is intimately tied-up with America’s idea of itself and its role in the world. Rather, as this paper demonstrates, economic-nationalism, in its many forms, is a deeply rooted American political-economic tradition that goes back as far as the nation’s very founding, and, indeed, as such has always been a latent political force in America’s political-culture. From its earliest founding days, protectionism versus free-trade has been a matter that has always bitterly divided America, and as such, economic nationalism, in the form of a threatening exit from the WTO, a possible re-negotiation of NAFTA, and high import tariffs for Mexico and China, although perhaps a dramatic shift after years of free-trade presidents, is nothing new under the American sun.
