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Engaged Humanities
(2022)
What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a ...
The Integration of Descendants of Migrants from Turkey in Stockholm: The TIES Study in Sweden
(2015)
This timely book presents the results of the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey that examines the experiences of residents of Stockholm who are descended from Turkish migrants
Chapter Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics: An Introduction
(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. ...
Borderland City in New India
(2016)
Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India’s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India’s embrace of neoliberalism and ...
Globalisation, Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Contemporary Greece
(2006)
This empirical study examines issues surrounding the integration of immigrants in Greece, in particular in Thessaloniki, as well as looking at migrants in neighbouring countries, Albania and Bulgaria. The book suggests ...
Geven in Nederland 2022
(2022)
Giving in the Netherlands provides the macro-economic estimates of philanthropy by households, bequests, foundations, corporations and lotteries. The Center for Philanthropic Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has ...
Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome
(2022)
In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different people during the ensuing ...
Chapter 9 Sociale zekerheid: een gelaagd begrip
(2016)
Hoe komt het toch dat onze relatief genereuze verzorgingsstaat vaak geen effectieve hulp biedt aan mensen die de voorzieningen het hardst nodig hebben?
Waardoor belanden velen dus ondanks hulp keer op keer in schulden,
armoede ...
Post-cinema
(2020)
This volume explores new ways of considering, experiencing and making films in a time of technological transition. It brings together an international group of scholars and artists from a variety of countries, who speak ...
Ostrannenie. On "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. The History, Reception, and Relevance of a Concept
(2010)
Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. ...
Immigration and Social Systems
(2012)
Popular science
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
(2018)
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women “as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage" wielded power ...
In Medias Res
(2011)
Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany’s most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, ...
Chapter Culture and critique
(2023)
In her work on cultural critique, Rosemarie Buikema conceptualizes culture as a terrain for the elaboration and contestation of collective memory, a form that mediates social formations, and a practice that critically ...
Erfgoed
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Culture and history
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 ...
Syntax of Dutch
(2019)
The multi-volume work Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. The text of the seven already available volumes was written between 1995 and 2015 and issued in print between 2012 and 2016. ...
Een versplinterd landschap. Bijdragen over geschiedenis en actualiteit van Nederlandse politieke partijen
(2017)
Het Nederlandse politieke landschap werd van oudsher gedomineerd door drie stromingen: christendemocraten, liberalen en sociaaldemocraten. Lange tijd toonden verkiezingsuitslagen een hoge mate van continuïteit. Daar kwam ...
Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets
(1999)
The Netherlandish rhetoricians of the sixteenth century have, in the course of the last decades, shed their image of third-rate poets who, lacking all sense of true beauty, were capable only of pompous verbosity and a ...
The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems
(2005)
Pension reform has emerged as a major political issue in most advanced welfare states. Sluggish economic growth and rising unemployment put public pension systems under increasing financial pressure. In combination with a ...
Chapter Revolt: The sense and non-sense of Kristeva
(2023)
Revolt, for Julia Kristeva, is not as a singular socio-political moment of breaking away, but as Rosemarie Buikema puts it, “a process of movement and repetition” (Buikema, 2020, 6), “a reversal, a relocation, a transformation, ...
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, ...
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
(2017)
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to ...
Sharing
(2012)
In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against ...
Places of Engagement
(2018)
In his book 'Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach' (2017) Bert van der Zwaan developed a thought-provoking vision of the university of the future, based on a thorough discussion of current trends and on a large ...
De kunst van het weldenken
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll
(2012)
Sex and Drugs Before Rock ’n’ Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ...
Chapter 8 Nieuwe spelers en andere zekerheden
(2016)
Vanouds gaven sociale partners hun doelen rond arbeidsmarkt en inkomenszekerheid vorm via afspraken binnen sectoren. Hun rol bij de
werknemersverzekeringen is echter verdwenen en het sectorale arbeidsvoorwaardenoverleg
verliest ...
Meritocratie: Op weg naar een nieuwe klassensamenleving
(2016)
De meritocratie gold lange tijd als belofte voor een meer open en gelijke samenleving. Een samenleving waarin mensen hun maatschappelijke positie verkrijgen op basis van hun eigen verdiensten. Maar wat als die verdiensten ...
Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain
(2012)
State regulation of labour migration is confronted with a double paradox. First, while markets require a policy of open borders to fulfill demands for migrant workers, the boundaries of citizenship impose some degree of ...
The Work of Authorship
(2014)
Technological and economic concerns have long been the drivers of debate about copyright. But diverse disciplines in the humanities - including literary studies, aesthetics, film studies, and the philosophy of art - have ...
This Cannot Happen Here
(2013)
In this book Ben Braber answers the question how the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the second world war. This study highlights the ...
European Immigrations
(2012)
This book makes an essential contribution to understanding the dynamics of contemporary immigrant inflows and integration in Europe. Though embracing a Continent-wide outlook on migration processes, it accounts, in particular, ...
Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence
(2019)
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of ...
Pacific Strife
(2015-03-13)
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed ...
Watch and Learn
(2012)
Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films', intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was ...
Playful Identities
(2015)
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day ...
Chapter Caught in a flash, arrested at a standstill
(2023)
This article seeks to articulate in one image the diverse genocides in German history, an image able to capture the piling wreckages of history in a flash. The point of departure is a multimedia installation by William ...
Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan
(2024)
Hobbes, Leviathan, Virtue, Rhetoric, Sovereignty
Visions of Electric Media
(2019)
*Visions of Electric Media* is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional ...