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Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia
(2009)
Most literature on the economic crisis in indonesia has focused on the negative macro-economic impacts during the "crisis- years" of 1997-99. The case studies presented in this book take a different perspective. With a ...
Chapter Feestneuzen, of bij de neus genomen?
(2022)
This article investigates ‘nose books’ (neusboekjes) and their social functions
in the Early Modern Low Countries. Nose books are short literary texts written
in the form of joyful ordinances that can be found in bound ...
Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java
(2015)
Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial ...
Perfect Worlds
(2011)
Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses finally the rise of dystopian writing – a negative expression of ...
The Place of Play
(2009)
Increasingly, technology is at stake in toys, games and playing. With the immense popularity of computer games, questions concerning the role and function of technology in play have become more pressing. A key aspect of ...
Sign Here!
(2006)
Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media features a number of articles from different fields, reaching from cultural and media studies to literature, film and art, and from philosophy and information studies to law ...
Chapter As in trans art
(2023)
This article engages with trans artistic practices: both trans in art as well as trans as art. It takes as its point of departure the artistic work of Ro Robertson, Tama Sharman, and Erica Rutherford, each of whom works ...
Economy Studies
(2022)
"The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety ...
Avoiding the Subject
(2004)
What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local ...
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
(2015-03-20)
This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger ...
Mobile Mapping
(2020)
This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature ...
Designs on Pots
(2023)
The prehistoric site of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand challenges the narrative of Thai origins, while at the same time appealing to the public’s vision of Thailand as an early centre of civilization. Ban Chiang demonstrates ...
Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek = Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics
(2023)
This volume focusses on the role of art, culture and politics in transitions and the struggle for social justice. Sometimes these transitions are traumatic and violent processes as in the case of post-apartheid South Africa. ...
The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe
(2021)
The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the ...
Transfigurations
(2008)
In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah ...
Chapter Tussen marge en middelpunt – voormoeders van genderstudies in Utrecht
(2023)
In this essay, Berteke Waaldijk outlines the early development of gender studies in Utrecht through the course ‘Between Margin and Centre, Women in Culture and Society’. The course lent itself perfectly to an interdisciplinary ...
Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey. Transforming Ethnic Conflict
(2016)
This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On ...
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
(2018)
The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals ...
Motivation – Mechanisms of the Mind and their Quest for Expression
(2023)
Motivation, Motivation theory, Model of Motivation, Meta-analysis theories of Motivation
Jean Epstein
(2012)
Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criticism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains ...
Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022)
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO’s role in Asia as a global health organization ...
The Cultural Life of James Bond
(2020)
The release of No Time To Die in 2020 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian ...
Investeren in werkzekerheid
(2007)
Public administration; Political science; Sociology
In Search of Effective Disability Policy
(2003)
In Search of Effective Disability Policy examines the potentials of two very different strategies of integrating disabled people into the working life. In the Netherlands employers have great responsi-bility for the ...
Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West
(2025)
Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, ...
Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops
(2009)
In 1609, the first Dutch settlers arrived in America and established trading posts, small towns, and forts up and down what we now call the Hudson River. To this day, American children are taught the thrilling history of ...
Chapter De complete clitoris
(2022)
Although in recent years more and more attention has been paid to the clitoris,
often little attention to the attitude towards her existence in the past.
This article takes a look at the clitter's history and focuses on ...
Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
(2021)
A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic ...
The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections
(2021)
Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and ...
Citizenship in the Arab World
(2009)
The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broader legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. The methodology employed builds on ...
‘Een mooie mengelmoes’
(2019)
The linguistic relality in the Netherlands during the Golden Age was in fact one of multilingualism: so many languages and dialects were used. Nicoline van der Sijs and Marc van Oostendorp show how the emergence of the ...
Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985
(2020)
God's diplomat, the pope of the ecumenical movement, but also an acerbic theologian and a difficult person: this is how journalists characterised Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft (1900-1985). He was one of the best-known Dutch ...
Inside the Politics of Technology
(2005)
Man is the measure of all things, an old saying goes. But it is a bad guide for understanding scientific and technological culture. Science and technology are not simply the means to reach human ends; they also actively ...
Universiteit Utrecht en koloniale kennis
(2023)
This book tells the story of Utrecht University’s colonial past. Ever since the university was founded in 1636, its scholars and students have been involved in various activities in the Dutch colonies of the West and East ...
Thuis voelen in de buurt: een opgave voor stedelijke vernieuwing
(2009)
Public administration; Sociology
Imagining Global Amsterdam
(2012)
Imagining Global Amsterdam brings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. ...
Chapter Nederlandse Southern Gothic
(2023)
This article presents a close reading of gothic features in Simone Atangana Bekono’s novella Zo hoog de zon stond (‘As high as the sun stood’, 2022). This analysis serves as a way to comment on recent academic debates about ...
The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism
(2014)
Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth ...
Chapter Wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities
(2023)
Writing sometimes involves wandering. This writing seeks to say and show what it is to write wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities. It also concerns why some writing is difficult, and thence writing on some ...
War of Words
(2012)
Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the Boer republics and the British Empire. Dutch popular opinion was on the side of the Boers: these descendants of the ...
A New Dawn for the Second Sex
(2017)
To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important ...
De Veluwe gereformeerd
(2022)
church history; social and cultural history
Practicing Decoloniality in Museums
(2022)
The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. ...
The Youth of Early Modern Women
(2018-11-01)
Through fifteen varied case studies that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection of essays makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth.
European culture recognized that, ...
Fabels van liefde
(2012)
Dutch literature - Flemish literature; History
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume I, Ideology and Politics
(2021)
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn ...
Soul of the Documentary. Framing, Expression, Ethics
(2015)
‘Soul of the Documentary’ offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already ...
The Dutch National Research Agenda in Perspective
(2017)
The Dutch National Research Agenda is a set of national priorities that are set by scientists working in conjunction with corporations, civil society organisations, and interested citizens. The agenda consolidates the ...
Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100
(2022)
In the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found beauty in towering buildings ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2022)
Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, ...
Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged
(2015)
In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of ...
The Anthology in Digital Culture
(2023)
As a cultural form, media practice and organizational model, the anthology has represented an important editorial framework in the development, preservation and retrieval of narratives, from paper-based media to machine-generated ...
Techné/Technology
(2014)
This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing ...
Cities in Asia by and for the People
(2018)
This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods. The ...
Trauma and Nostalgia
(2024)
This volume reflects on the significance of nostalgia in the construction of traumatic pasts, both on an individual and a collective level. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, the volume enhances our understanding ...
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
(2017-04-30)
Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psycho-physiological ...
'Indisch is een gevoel'.De tweede en derde generatie Indische Nederlanders
(2009)
Indische Nederlanders zijn de grootste immigrantengroep die zich ooit in Nederland heeft gevestigd. Er is niet veel over hen bekend en al helemaal niet over hun nazaten. Voelen die zich eigenlijk nog Indisch? In ‘Indisch ...
Wetenschap in Nederland. Waar een klein land groot in is en moet blijven
(2017)
De Nederlandse wetenschap doet het uitstekend. Op wereldwijde ranglijsten scoren onze onderzoekers, universiteiten en instituten opmerkelijk hoog. In dit essay onderzoeken José van Dijck en Wim van Saarloos, president en ...
Seeing the City Digitally
(2022)
This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many ...
Onze vriend op de pauwentroon
(2023)
Reading the news about Iran today one can hardly imagine that relations between the Netherlands and Iran were excellent until 1979. Mohammed-Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Persia, was known in The Netherlands as a visionary ...