Siri Driessen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siri Driessen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siri |
| FAMILY NAME | Driessen |
| SIGNATURE | DRIESSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Humanistic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6778-8977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unburden us and them’
Recently, the Dutch government granted 'Dutchbat 3' veterans and their partners the opportunity to return to Srebrenica and its surroundings, where they had been located up until the genocide of 1995. An important part of these return trips is dedicated to on-site meetings with women survivors of war and genocide. These encounters are thought to encourage more dialogue, mutual understanding, and an engagement with 'the other's' points of view, wi…
Rethinking veteran return trips from a relational perspective
The voices of women with a military partner are often unheard in research on military deployments and their aftermath, even though partners are seen as key pillars of support to military veterans, both by military institutions and society. Research on the experiences of partners is usually done from a clinical or psychological perspective, studying (secondary) traumatization, moral injury, or/and the consequences of living with someone suffering …
Lessons of war. The significance of battlefield tours for the Dutch military
This paper analyses the personal experiences of Dutch army members during military battlefield tours to historical war sites. We \npresent a qualitative interview based analysi
Making Sense of War Memories
This article analyzes the war memories and processes of meaning-making of Dutch veterans who returned to places related to their deployment in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It argues that the incentive to return can be found in the difficulties that veterans have in assigning positive meaning to their deployment because existing collective and cultural memories about the war and the genocide in Srebrenica do not align with many of the veterans'…
Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe
An important aspect of contemporary volunteer tourism is generated by the possibility of having personal, emotional and affective \nencounters and experiences. Volunteer summer camps on former \nwar sites, organized by the German Action Reconciliation Service \nfor Peace (ARSP), can be regarded as an expression of a contemporary form of tourism, which consists of the development of a \npersonal, affective, and immersive approach to learning and v…
Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe
An important aspect of contemporary volunteer tourism is generated by the possibility of having personal, emotional and affective \nencounters and experiences. Volunteer summer camps on former \nwar sites, organized by the German Action Reconciliation Service \nfor Peace (ARSP), can be regarded as an expression of a contemporary form of tourism, which consists of the development of a \npersonal, affective, and immersive approach to learning and v…
Making Sense of War Memories
This article analyzes the war memories and processes of meaning-making of Dutch veterans who returned to places related to their deployment in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It argues that the incentive to return can be found in the difficulties that veterans have in assigning positive meaning to their deployment because existing collective and cultural memories about the war and the genocide in Srebrenica do not align with many of the veterans'…
Rethinking veteran return trips from a relational perspective
The voices of women with a military partner are often unheard in research on military deployments and their aftermath, even though partners are seen as key pillars of support to military veterans, both by military institutions and society. Research on the experiences of partners is usually done from a clinical or psychological perspective, studying (secondary) traumatization, moral injury, or/and the consequences of living with someone suffering …
Lessons of war. The significance of battlefield tours for the Dutch military
This paper analyses the personal experiences of Dutch army members during military battlefield tours to historical war sites. We \npresent a qualitative interview based analysi
Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe
An important aspect of contemporary volunteer tourism is generated by the possibility of having personal, emotional and affective \nencounters and experiences. Volunteer summer camps on former \nwar sites, organized by the German Action Reconciliation Service \nfor Peace (ARSP), can be regarded as an expression of a contemporary form of tourism, which consists of the development of a \npersonal, affective, and immersive approach to learning and v…
Making Sense of War Memories
This article analyzes the war memories and processes of meaning-making of Dutch veterans who returned to places related to their deployment in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It argues that the incentive to return can be found in the difficulties that veterans have in assigning positive meaning to their deployment because existing collective and cultural memories about the war and the genocide in Srebrenica do not align with many of the veterans'…
Lessons of war. The significance of battlefield tours for the Dutch military
This paper analyses the personal experiences of Dutch army members during military battlefield tours to historical war sites. We \npresent a qualitative interview based analysi
Unburden us and them’
Recently, the Dutch government granted 'Dutchbat 3' veterans and their partners the opportunity to return to Srebrenica and its surroundings, where they had been located up until the genocide of 1995. An important part of these return trips is dedicated to on-site meetings with women survivors of war and genocide. These encounters are thought to encourage more dialogue, mutual understanding, and an engagement with 'the other's' points of view, wi…
Rethinking veteran return trips from a relational perspective
The voices of women with a military partner are often unheard in research on military deployments and their aftermath, even though partners are seen as key pillars of support to military veterans, both by military institutions and society. Research on the experiences of partners is usually done from a clinical or psychological perspective, studying (secondary) traumatization, moral injury, or/and the consequences of living with someone suffering …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Genocide (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works)