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VIOT 2018
(2019)
This book bundles 22 carefully selected contributions on recent research in language proficiency.
Inconvenient Heritage
(2022)
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, a multitude of items – including a cannon of the King of Kandy, power-objects ...
Europe - on Air
(2012)
Radio broadcasting may seem old-fashioned nowadays, but early radio infrastructures and programs in Europe were the real social media of their time. They laid the foundation for how we experience European unification and ...
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners
(2017)
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners offers a practical approach to risk management in the financial industry. This in-depth study provides quantitative tools to better describe qualitative issues, ...
Screen Space Reconfigured
(2020)
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, ...
Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time
(2021)
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these ...
Chapter Child-directed speech in catechisms for the religious education of children under the age of three in early modern Germany and the Dutch Republic
(2022)
This article presents three early catechisms for the religious education of
children under the age of three, printed in Germany and the Netherlands.
Two of them were best- and long sellers on the book market, while one ...
Inventing Cinema
(2019)
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ...
Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
(2015)
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young ...
Paris-Amsterdam Underground
(2013)
The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book ...
Chapter 4 De grote golf van het sociale stelsel
(2016)
De ontwikkeling van de sociale zekerheid in de afgelopen eeuw vertoont het beeld van een grote golf: een snelle opgaande beweging na de Tweede
Wereldoorlog, gevolgd door een halvering van de uitgaven sinds 1984.
De ...
Transition and Transformation
(2012)
In 1923, Victor Sjöström (1879-1960) got an offer from Goldwyn Pictures to come to Hollywood. This was nothing unusual for a successful European director: - Metro's bring - ing them in by car load - , as Photoplay stated ...
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
(2018)
This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, ...
The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms
(2013)
In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. In particular, social democracy engaged in significant policy ...
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece
(2020)
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant ...
Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema
(2018)
A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly ...
Bankieren voor een betere wereld. Nanno Kleiterp in gesprek met Marijn Wiersma
(2017)
In een wereld vol met grote uitdagingen als gevolg van klimaatverandering, economische ongelijkheid en migratie, biedt het boek Bankieren voor een betere wereld van Nanno Kleiterp en Marijn Wiersma een diep inzicht in de ...
Chapter De huid van de feministische dekoloniale wetenschapper
(2023)
In this chapter Rosemarie Buikema elaborates on how decolonial feminist artists and scholars are engaged in knowledge production by means of deploying a poetics of recycling as a way to re-orientate themselves towards the ...
From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise
(2009)
This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events ...
Haalt de universiteit 2040? Een Europees perspectief op wereldwijde kansen en bedreigingen
(2016)
Sinds de Middeleeuwen heeft de universiteit vele veranderingen succesvol doorstaan. Maar het hele landschap van het hoger onderwijs is de afgelopen decennia zo snel en ingrijpend in beweging gekomen – onder andere met de ...