The overview effect

When astronauts gaze upon the Earth from space, they experience powerful feelings of global interconnectedness. This blog explores what this phenomenon, called ‘the overview effect’, contributes to understanding how the covid-19 crisis might expand the scale of social relations.

Coco Kanters • April 16, 2020 • 1 comment

A Christmas Story: Health Insurance in the Netherlands

What do christmas and health insurance have in common? By using christmas as an example two underlying principles of health insurance become apparent: solidarity and consumer practices.

Nikkie Buskermolen • December 22, 2017

‘Walls of Peace’ and memories of conflict in Belfast

Peace-building by building walls? In Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, guided tours to a 3-kilometer-long wall have become a ‘must do’ on the tourist’s schedule. The memorial wall reveals the slow process of reconciliation.

Gerard Persoon • May 02, 2016 • 1 comment

Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance

Erik Bähre has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for research on the morality of life insurance. What issues are raised when insurance companies define responsibility and solidarity? Has insurance changed since the crisis of 2007?

Erik Bähre • January 05, 2016 • 1 comment

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The overview effect

A Christmas Story: Health Insurance in the Netherlands

‘Walls of Peace’ and memories of conflict in Belfast

Moralising misfortune: The morality of life insurance