[D66] Video: Klaar met corona: Disobedience

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Disobedience | Femke Kaulingfreks and Alan Sanfey
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Disobedience | Lectures by philosopher Femke Kaulingfreks and brain 
researcher Alan Sanfey
Monday 19 October 2020 | 20.00 – 21.15 hrs | Online from LUX, Nijmegen
Radboud Reflects and Donders Institute


"I am done with corona," is a much-heard complaint lately. After six 
months of social distancing, we would prefer to go back to normal, but 
we are now experiencing a second wave of corona and obeying the corona 
rules leads to more and more resistance. Why did we obey at the start of 
the crisis and why is our behaviour, at this point in time, less easily 
influenced by our government? What is the pandemic doing to our psyche 
and inclination to obey? And to what extent has civil disobedience 
mainly become a weapon to defend self-interest? Think along with brain 
researcher Alan Sanfey and philosopher Femke Kaulingfreks about civil 
(dis)obedience in these times of corona.

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Leading in the dark
The global behavioural change we saw during the corona crisis is 
unheard-of. From one day to the next we faced an unprecedented virus 
with our government leading us in the dark. With only fifty percent of 
the knowledge, it made one hundred percent of the decisions for us. What 
does such a situation do to our duty to obey? Alan Sanfey shares what 
behavioural and neuroscience tell us about obedience. The current 
pandemic demonstrates the importance of long-term compliance to the 
corona rules. However, changing the behaviour of an entire population is 
a major challenge in which many popular strategies often backfire.

Counter-democracy
Against the background of the corona crisis, we are dealing with a 
social development that is also referred to as counter-democracy: 
citizens no longer go along with the government, but mainly stand up for 
their own interests and disrespect authority. Citizens are no longer 
disobedient to improve policy, but to weaken the government. Femke 
Kaulingfreks explains how democracy has increasingly become a 
battleground and why certain groups have lost their trust in the 
government. To what extent does counter-democracy play a role in 
contemporary protests? Does this explain why we are less and less 
interested in corona policies? Or is there more to it?

After their lectures, Femke Kaulingfreks and Alan Sanfey will 
participate in a discussion led by philosopher Frank van Caspel. Should 
we beware that disobedient is becoming the norm? And what can we do 
against that?

This program is in English.

About the speakers
Femke Kaulingfreks is a political philosopher and anthropologist. Her 
research focuses on the empowerment of young people who are in a 
vulnerable position. She is the author of the book Straatpolitiek. Op 
zoek naar nieuw engagement (2017).

Alan Sanfey is a researcher at Donders Institute and Behavioural Science 
Institute and head of Decision Neuroscience Laboratory. He examines the 
psychological and neurological aspects of making choices, combining 
behavioural and brain research.


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