Throughout the last decade several cyclists have published memoirs in which they account for their doping use. In previous literature such autobiographical accounts have been characterized as attempts of fallen sports stars to sanitize their spoiled public image. In contrast, the analysis in this article will show that the accounts are of relevance when it comes to understanding the problem of doping in professional cycling. Their accounts break the omertà regarding doping, providing insights about the motivation and opportunity structures behind doping and how such structures are endemic to the system of professional cycling. |
Zoekresultaat: 6 artikelen
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Pro-cycling’s doping pentiti |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Trefwoorden | doping, cycling, cultural criminology, crime facilitative system, organisational crime |
Auteurs | Dr. mr. Roland Moerland en Giulio Soana |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Hans Nelen en Dr. mr. Roland Moerland |
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Diversen |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Auteurs | dr. mr. Roland Moerland en prof. dr. Hans Nelen |
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The two editors of this issue conducted an interview with professor emeritus International law and Human Rights Theo van Boven. Van Boven was UN Special Rapporteur against Torture and he served as Director of Human Rights of the United Nations. In these and his other positions, Van Boven fought for the rights of victims of gross human rights violations and throughout his career he experienced first-hand how regimes try to cover up and deny their crimes. The interview focuses on his experiences with the former military junta in Argentina. Van Boven notes that in comparison to other regimes, the junta had developed the most sophisticated strategy of denial. Van Boven reflects on the regime’s vocabulary of denial, the political dimensions of denial and the implications for the victims. He is open and sincere about his experiences as Director of Human Rights of the United Nations and explains how victim rights, such as the right to truth, can clash with the bureaucratic and political reality within the United Nations. |
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‘Troostmeisjes’: Over de structurele ontkenning van seksuele slavernij en voortschrijdende victimisatie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | comfort women, denial, sexual slavery, discourse analysis |
Auteurs | dr. mr. Roland Moerland |
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In 2015, South-Korea and Japan came to a ‘final’ agreement concerning the ‘comfort women’ issue. This contribution reveals that this deal signals the next stage in a process of denial through which Japanese authorities have structurally denied the women’s’ victimhood. Taking a discourse analytical approach, the contribution investigates this historical process of denial and its implications. The analysis shows that denial takes several forms and performs different functions throughout the process. It demonstrates that denial is an interactional phenomenon, has different psychologies underlying it, and that it operates on different levels. Denial ultimately contributes to a state of continued victimization. |
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Inleiding |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | denial, speech act, discourse theory, performative function of language, cultural criminology |
Auteurs | prof. dr. Hans Nelen en dr. mr. Roland Moerland |
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In the introductory article of this special issue on the language of denial, some relevant concepts in relation to denial, speech act and discourse theory are explored. Stanley Cohen’s distinction between literal, interpretative and implicatory denial is illuminated, as well as the contribution of various scholars on the performative function of language. At the end of the article the relevance of these concepts for (cultural) criminology is explained. |
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Verzet of collaboratie? Hoe de strijd tegen genocide kan bijdragen aan genocide |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2014 |
Trefwoorden | Rwanda, genocide against the Tutsi, denial, politics of genocide |
Auteurs | Roland Moerland |
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The politization of the concept of genocide by Western states has been severely criticised, because it has led to an impunity for genocidal crimes. In certain instances however, such criticism has contributed to the dynamic of victimization, instead of resisting it. The article discusses how Professor Edward S. Herman and journalist David Peterson’s staunch criticism of the politics of genocide amounts to a brazen denial of the genocide against the Tutsi which recycles much of the extremist discourse of the former Rwandan authorities that were implicated in genocide. In this case Herman and Peterson’s resistance against the politics of genocide has profound implications, several of which the article will address. |