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Chapter De gemeentepolitie als zieken- en ongevallenvervoerder van 1924 tot 1979
(2024)
Between 1924 and 1979, 50 municipal police forces in the Netherlands were involved in transporting injured people by motor vehicle. As well as genuine ambulances, they also used auxiliary ambulances or multi-purpose vehicles, ...
Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia
(2023)
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research ...
Policy, People, and the New Professional
(2006)
Engaging with the acclaimed American sociologist Eliot Freidson's argument about professionalism's 'third logic' (a viable alternative to bureaucracy and consumerism), Dutch, British, French and German contributors to this ...
Evart van Dieren
(2008)
This remarkablpe title describes the life of one of Holland's most remarkable figures: medical practitioner Van Dieren (1861-1940), Amsterdammer and prolific writer who caused quite a stir in his days. The author recounts ...
Syntax of Dutch
(2012)
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language ...
iOverheid
(2011)
How does the use of ict affect the relationship between government and its citizens? This book analyses the developments of networking information and concludes that in everyday practice an iGovernment has gradually come ...
Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands
(2012)
This book explores the Dutch post-colonial migrant experience within the context of a wider European debate. Over 60 years and three generations of migration history is presented, while also surveying an impressive body ...
Harun Farocki
(2004)
For more than thirty years Farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, film-essayist and installation artist. What preoccupies him above all is not so much an image of life, but the life of images, as they surround us in ...
Chapter Redactioneel
(2024)
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Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases. Volume 1
(2015)
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality ...
Honderdvijftig jaar levenslopen
(2008)
In the past hundred and fifty years the lives of Dutch men and women seem to have become more varied than ever. However, this doesn't mean that before this time their lives were uniform and unchanging. In this book leading ...
Waarden, normen en de last van het gedrag
(2004)
Sociology
Material Fantasies
(2012)
This study of East German fantasies of material abundance across the border, both before and after the fall of communism, shows the close and intricate relation between ideology and fantasy in upholding social life. In ...
Waddenland Outstanding: History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region
(2018)
The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the embanked coastal marshes and islands in the Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, and this area retains an exceptional common history in all its aspects: ...
Een tweede paspoort
(2012)
Law
Chapter De gemeentepolitie als zieken- en ongevallenvervoerder van 1924 tot 1979
(2024)
Between 1924 and 1979, 50 municipal police forces in the Netherlands were involved in transporting injured people by motor vehicle. As well as genuine ambulances, they also used auxiliary ambulances or multi-purpose vehicles, ...
Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché
(2018)
Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Where do such visual ...
Images of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché
(2018)
Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, while industries and modern urban life are all but absent? Where do such visual ...
Statistics and Reality
(2009)
In the last decade, there has been a distinct trend towards a worldwide harmonisation of migration statistics, chiefly pushed by international bodies and organisations that need comparative data. Statistics and Reality ...
Popular Music in Southeast Asia
(2017)
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book ...
Zingend door het leven
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Music
Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography
(2018)
Exploring the history of several important collections from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Bregt Lameris shows how archival films and collections always carry historical traces.
Chapter 10 Sociale zekerheid in een Europees perspectief
(2016)
Sociale investeringen staan in veel Europese landen op de beleidsagenda. Hierbij gaat het om een omslag van klassiek herverdelend sociaal beleid
naar activerend sociaal beleid. Hoewel deze agenda een verlaging van de
armoede ...
Chapter 10 Sociale zekerheid in een Europees perspectief
(2016)
Sociale investeringen staan in veel Europese landen op de beleidsagenda. Hierbij gaat het om een omslag van klassiek herverdelend sociaal beleid
naar activerend sociaal beleid. Hoewel deze agenda een verlaging van de
armoede ...
A Second Life
(1996)
German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. A Second ...
Beleid inzake media, cultuur en kwaliteit - 7
(2005)
Political Science; Society & Culture; Media Studies
Contesting the Foreshore
(2004)
This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular ...
Multicultureel drama?
(2005)
Stage presentations
The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries
(2011)
The literature on changing varieties of capitalism concentrates on the big economies, particularly the US, Japan and Germany. This important volume sheds light on the group of smaller European countries that share a high ...
Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power
(2004)
This study explores the theme of Batavian ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the context of the Early Roman Empire, starting with the current view of ethnicity as a culturally determined, subjective construct shaped through ...
Friese edelen, hun kapitaal en boerderijen in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw
(2022)
De Friese adel van de late middeleeuwen opereerde in een niet-feodaal gebied dat lange tijd geen landsheer kende. Hadden de leden, hoofdelingen genaamd, zich uit de boerenstand omhooggewerkt of vormden ze vanouds een ...
The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage
(2015)
Accountability, good government and public trust are intricately linked. Supreme Audit Institutions fulfil an exceptional role in the public domain, checking if governments spend their money properly. They are like 'watchdogs' ...
Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands
(2009)
Making illegal residence unattractive is a way for Western governments to limit migration from non-Western countries. Focusing on Dutch neighbourhoods with substantial levels of unauthorised migrants, Illegal Residence and ...
Goede bedoelingen in het onderwijs
(2011)
Public administration
Goede bedoelingen in het onderwijs
(2011)
Public administration
Friese edelen, hun kapitaal en boerderijen in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw
(2022)
De Friese adel van de late middeleeuwen opereerde in een niet-feodaal gebied dat lange tijd geen landsheer kende. Hadden de leden, hoofdelingen genaamd, zich uit de boerenstand omhooggewerkt of vormden ze vanouds een ...
The Transformation of Solidarity
(2012)
This study investigates the consequences of processes of social individualisation and economic globalisation for welfare state solidarity. Solidarity is defined as the willingness to share risks. The institutions of the ...
The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage
(2015)
Accountability, good government and public trust are intricately linked. Supreme Audit Institutions fulfil an exceptional role in the public domain, checking if governments spend their money properly. They are like 'watchdogs' ...
The Transformation of Solidarity
(2012)
This study investigates the consequences of processes of social individualisation and economic globalisation for welfare state solidarity. Solidarity is defined as the willingness to share risks. The institutions of the ...
Multicultureel drama?
(2005)
Stage presentations
The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries
(2011)
The literature on changing varieties of capitalism concentrates on the big economies, particularly the US, Japan and Germany. This important volume sheds light on the group of smaller European countries that share a high ...
Chapter Dingen die ertoe doen!
(2023)
In this contribution Mineke Bosch connects to Rosemarie Buikema’s work with the Museum of Equality and Difference which aims at inspiring museum and exhibition curators to tell more complex stories that include postcolonial ...
Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe
(2015)
Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary ...
Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy
(2009)
This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in Republican Italy. In the last four centuries BC, Italy went through immense changes. The Apennine and Adriatic areas were originally ...
Chapter Unfolding patterns of revolt
(2023)
This article deals with art, fashion design, and cultural practice as both critique and creativity. It analyses artworks by William Kentridge, Sue Austin, and Lina Iris Viktor, as well as the fashion of Viktor & Rolf, ...
Chapter Unfolding patterns of revolt
(2023)
This article deals with art, fashion design, and cultural practice as both critique and creativity. It analyses artworks by William Kentridge, Sue Austin, and Lina Iris Viktor, as well as the fashion of Viktor & Rolf, ...
Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro
(2006)
Globalization, financial liberalization and neo-liberal economic policy thinking have been seen as contributors to the demise of social partnership in Western Europe. Recent examples of the re-emergence of social pacts ...
Crossing the Line
(2006)
For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal hazing in an elaborate ceremony at sea called 'crossing the line' (British-American) and 'Neptunusfeest' (Dutch). Typically ...
Chapter Hou toezicht op de emancipatie!
(2023)
For numerous public interests there are supervisory bodies, such as the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Drawing on the multidisciplinary ...
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
(2023)
This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, ...
The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data
(2017)
As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only ...
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters
(2010)
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world ...
Chapter Retirement as going through a portal of possibilities
(2023)
The essay contemplates retirement as a portal of possibilities which may open time for diving into both haunting and joyful questions that being tied up with admin work formerly prevented the pursuit of. Questions which ...
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
(2023)
This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, ...
Chapter Trans-Atlantische slavenhandel door Amsterdamse doopsgezinden, 1655-1674, en de uitholling van het weerloosheidsbeginsel
(2024)
‘Trans-Atlantic slave trade by Mennonites in Amsterdam, 1655-1674, and the erosion of the principle of defencelessness’ In the period 1655-1674 the first West-Indian Company (1621-1674) gave permission to private shipowners ...
The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data
(2017)
As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only ...
Everywhere Taksim: Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi
(2015)
In May 2013, a small group of protesters made camp in Istanbul's Taksim Square, protesting the privatisation of what had long been a vibrant public space. When the police responded to the demonstration with brutality, the ...
Hoe mensen keuzes maken
(2010)
Psychology; Public administration
Chapter De slavenhandel van de Sociëteit van Berbice, 1721-1786 – Het masker van Amsterdamse doopsgezinden afgetrokken
(2024)
From 1720 until 1821, the slave colony Berbice west of Surinam was owned and governed by the Society of Berbice, a joint-stock company which had its seat in Amsterdam. In the period from 1722 to 1772, an average of ten ...
The West in Early Cinema
(2006)
Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between ...
Street Politics in the Age of Austerity
(2016)
The past few years have seen an unexpected resurgence of street-level protest movements around the world, from the uprisings of the Arab Spring to the rise of the anti-austerity Indignados in Spain and Greece to the global ...
Street Politics in the Age of Austerity
(2016)
The past few years have seen an unexpected resurgence of street-level protest movements around the world, from the uprisings of the Arab Spring to the rise of the anti-austerity Indignados in Spain and Greece to the global ...
The New Second Generation in Switzerland: Youth of Turkish and Former Yugoslav Descent in Zurich and Basel
(2015)
Using data from the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey, this timely study focuses on the second generation of immigrants from Turkey and former Yugoslavia in Switzerland. A common thread running through ...
The Troubles in Northern Ireland and Theories of Social Movements
(2017)
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How does nonviolent mobilisation emerge and persist in deeply divided societies? What are the trajectories of participation in ...
From Behind the Curtain
(2005)
In the aftermath of 9/11 Islamic seminaries or madrasas received much media attention in India, mostly owing to the alleged link between madrasa education and forms of violence. Yet, while ample information on madrasas for ...
Kurt Baschwitz
(2018)
Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968) had a lifelong fascination for ‘the riddle of the
mass’ in both its visible and invisible forms. He was a major pioneer of communication
and media studies on the European continent, an early ...
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters
(2010)
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world ...
Armed Batavians
(2007)
This study explores the use and significance of Roman weaponry and horse gear from non-military contexts in the eastern Rhine delta – the territory of the Batavians. Using a life-cycle model for Roman soldiers, the author ...
The Dutch Polder Model in science and research
(2017)
Scientific research in the Netherlands is doing remarkably well. Dutch researchers, universities and institutes reside at or near the top of international rankings. In this essay, José van Dijck and Wim van Saarloos, the ...
Sociale (on)zekerheid. De voorziene toekomst
(2016)
Het debat over de toekomst van de sociale zekerheid stond in de twintigste eeuw in het teken van twee kernvragen: wie komen er aanmerking voor sociale zekerheid en hoe moeten wie die zekerheid precies inrichten? Vanaf eind ...
Rhythms and Rhymes of Life
(2008)
A study of the role of music and youth culture in the identification procces of Dutch-Moroccan youth
De beste de baas?
(2008)
It is generally thought that all people should have equal opportunities and their social position should not be dictated by race, sex or heritage. This ideology of meritocracy has been embraced by the Dutch and other ...
Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire
(2017)
This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external 'barbarian' groups in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the fourth ...
Chapter ‘Een nobele persoonlijkheid op het gebied van het maatschappelijke hulpbetoon’
(2024)
On 13 March 1908, the National Bureau for the Collection of Data on the Trade in Women and Girls was founded. The 47-year-old H.J.A. Simons de Ruyter was appointed National Police Commissioner. He proved to be the best ...
Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
(2011)
New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. ...
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
(2018)
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating ...
Paradoxes of Social Capital
(2008)
Paradoxes of Social Capital<i/> critically examines the robustness of social capital theory as an analytical tool in explaining the various 'integration' patterns amongst Moroccans in London. The book also considers how ...
iOverheid
(2011)
How does the use of ict affect the relationship between government and its citizens? This book analyses the developments of networking information and concludes that in everyday practice an iGovernment has gradually come ...
Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
(2018)
Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time ...
Screens
(2016)
We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic ...
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground
(2024)
How can the world move away from a century-old global system based on fossil fuels? And how can societies in the Global South and Global North overcome the deeply vested economic, financial and political interests of the ...
Gender, Migration and Categorisation
(2013)
All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. In this volume, twelve eminent scholars describe and analyse how in countries such as France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the ...
Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective
(2008)
Two issues come to the fore in current debates over migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in illegal migration. This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the ...
Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
(2018)
Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time ...
Van Rij en Stam
(2022)
During the Indonesian war of independence, reports of alleged war crimes by Dutch soldiers penetrated the Netherlands only sparsely. Even so, it was during the war that the first calls for an independent investigation into ...
Van Rij en Stam
(2022)
During the Indonesian war of independence, reports of alleged war crimes by Dutch soldiers penetrated the Netherlands only sparsely. Even so, it was during the war that the first calls for an independent investigation into ...
Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground
(2024)
How can the world move away from a century-old global system based on fossil fuels? And how can societies in the Global South and Global North overcome the deeply vested economic, financial and political interests of the ...
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
(2018)
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating ...
Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
(2019)
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely ...
Syntax of Dutch: Verb and Verb Phrases. Volume 2
(2015)
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality ...
Transformations of Trade Unionism
(2018)
The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers’ resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will ...
Chapter Het baton-plafond
(2023)
It remains very exceptional when highly gifted women musicians are crowned maestra, conductor of a symphony orchestra. There are various explanations for this deprivation. Contextualised in historical and statistical data, ...
Chapter De weerloosheid verzaakt – Rothmanns ommekeer en diens invloed in de Nederlanden
(2024)
As a theological ideologue and pamphlet propagandist of the Radical Reformation, Rothmann described his theological justification for the use of force against a godless government in three main pamphlets. Initially, Rothmann ...
Micro-foundations for Innovation Policy
(2008)
In economics, business, and government policy, innovation policy requires the creation of new approaches based on insight in what happens in innovation processes, on the micro level of people, firms and interaction between ...
Transformations of Trade Unionism
(2018)
The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers’ resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will ...
Renascent Empire?
(2000)
Based on extensive archival research in Portugal, India, England, and France, this work provides the first monographic study of a crucial, yet hitherto ignored period in the history of Portugal's Asian empire: the years ...
Contingent Loyalties
(2024)
From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors shaped the history of ...
Global Flows, Local Appropriations
(2007)
Global Flows, Local Appropriations; Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims is the first ethnographic study of muslims in Cape Town, South Africa at this level in 25 years. It explores ...
Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands
(1998)
The Netherlands is the only country in the world in which euthanasia, under narrow-defined circumstances, is legally permissible. Considerable attention has been paid over a number of years to the problem of regulating it ...
Kurt Baschwitz
(2018)
Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968) had a lifelong fascination for ‘the riddle of the
mass’ in both its visible and invisible forms. He was a major pioneer of communication
and media studies on the European continent, an early ...