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Chapter ‘Spagaat van een dienstweigeraar’
(2024)
Choosing between refusing military service and defending your country is a difficult choice, as a former conscientious objector. What questions should you ask young people? The obligation to attend military service in the ...
Why Are Artists Poor?
(2008)
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low ...
Why Are Artists Poor?
(2008)
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low ...
Decolonising the Caribbean
(2003)
Much has been written on the post-war decolonisation in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colonies of Surinam, the Netherlands Antilles ...
Decolonising the Caribbean
(2003)
Much has been written on the post-war decolonisation in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colonies of Surinam, the Netherlands Antilles ...
Open Data and the Knowledge Society
(2017)
This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation toward a 'knowledge society'.
De casus Inburgering en Nationaliteitswetgeving: iconen van nationale identiteit
(2007)
Political science
De platformsamenleving: Strijd om publieke waarden in een online wereld
(2016)
Van Airbnb tot Uber, en van Nextdoor tot Facebook, een steeds groter deel van het maatschappelijk en economisch verkeer verloopt via online platformen. De opkomst van deze platformen leidt tot optimistische vertogen. Doordat ...
Chapter ‘Oude drucken … welcke alle … ghesien ende gehanteert zijn’’
(2022)
The present article is the result of the ongoing research of the project ‘The
Dynamics of the Classical Reformed Liturgy in the Netherlands: Its Texts
and their History’. This Liturgy is recorded in numerous psalm books ...
Chapter Doopsgezinden en slavernij – Privé profijt en publiek protest III – Marten Douwes Teenstra (1795-1864) – Afschaffer
(2024)
In this third and final article on the Doopsgezind involvement with the atrocities of slavery in the former Dutch East and West Indies, the spotlight is exclusively on Marten Douwes Teenstra (1795-1864) from the northern ...
Local Identities
(2003)
Investigates how small groups - households and local communities - constitute and represent their social identity by ordering the landscape in which they dwell. The author develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective ...
Chapter De raderbaar van militair-arts Cornelis de Mooy
(2024)
In 1869, Dutch military doctor Cornelis de Mooy invented the litter, ‘raderbaar’, a stretcher on wheels. It was a major improvement in several ways compared with the old brancards. It was comfortable for patients and only ...
Nieuw in Nederland
(2012)
Sociology
Productive Fandom
(2018)
This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.
Syntax of Hungarian
(2017)
These books aim 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, as ...
Organizing for Independence
(2024)
Independence protests are on the rise across Europe, as Spain, the UK, and other states have faced severe secessionist challenges. The largest wave of these protests swept Catalonia and reached its peak in 2017 when the ...
Migrants and Markets
(2008)
The established academic discipline that is economics and migration research - as a growing sub-discipline that has inevitably transgressed its own academic bounds - have long treated each other with mutual indifference. ...
Meesterschap in tweevoud
(2009)
Culture and history; Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment; Dutch literature; Dutch and Flemish literature
Feminisms
(2015)
This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to ...
Islam, Civil Society and Social Work
(2008)
The thesis analyses the role of Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan from the perspective of their religious discourse and the related social activities, to assess whether they contribute to empowerment or ...
Dynamism in Islamic Activism
(2006)
The increased tensions surrounding radical Muslims and radical movements in the political Islam are not only manifested in the Western countries but also in the Muslim world itself. Tendencies and political movements that ...
Lustige geesten
(2009)
Dutch literature; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de eenentwintigste eeuw
(2016)
Het boek A Dutch Miracle van J. Visser en A. Hemerijck uit 1997 analyseerde de rol van onderhandelingen, coördinatie en consensus in het Nederlandse Poldermodel en stelde vast dat het cruciale factoren zijn geweest in het ...
Care at a Distance
(2012)
This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare. Combining detailed ethnographic studies of nurses ...
Audiovisions
(1999)
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision -the ...
Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market
(2012)
To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies ...
National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities
(2011)
Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by ...
Open Content Licensing
(2011)
Although open content licences only account for a fraction of all copyright licences currently in force in the copyright world, the mentality change initated by the open content movement is here to stay. To promote the use ...
Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent
(2011)
Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at ...
Bewijzen van goede dienstverlening
(2004)
Political Science
Chapter Nogmaals kijken naar de pijn van anderen, of: de uitdaging van ‘wij ’
(2023)
This essay takes its point of departure in images of the victims of the 2023 Turkish-Syrian earthquake. It examines their rhetoric, comparing them to those of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who washed ashore on a Turkish ...
Media Policy for the Digital Age
(2005)
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector ...
Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
(2019)
Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese ...
Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe
(2010)
This volume is a study of identity processes and identity dynamics in a post-colonial, multiethnic European context that is constantly changing under the pressures of globalisation, migration movements and integration. The ...
Transit Migration in Europe
(2014)
Transit migration is a term that is used to describe mixed flows of different types of temporary migrants, including refugees and labor migrants. In the popular press, it is often confused with illegal or irregular migration ...
Speelruimte voor transparantere rechtspraak
(2013)
Law
Euthanasie
(2004)
Law
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
(2002)
This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of ...
Physical Safety
(2012)
Physical safety is a core task of government. It is neither surprising nor unreasonable for government to be held accountable for hazardous substances, for food safety, for flood protection, for the spread of infectious ...
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination
(2007)
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers' drawings, film stills and archival ...
Employment 'Miracles'
(2005)
Why did some economies experience a boom in the 1990s? Employment 'Miracles' comparatively analyses select miracle economies. The contributors to the volume critically analyze how the small size and institutional structure ...
Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times
(2023)
Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we ...
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, ...
Migration and Irregular Work in Austria
(2008)
This meticulously researched study of irregular migrant work in Austria holds many broader lessons for countries all over Europe. The book derives many of its fascinating insights from systematic in-depth interviews with ...
The Frisian Popular Militias between 1480 and 1560
(2022)
In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because ...
Van natuurlandschap tot risicomaatschappij
(2008)
This study is an illustrated overview of the relationship between people and their environment worldwide. It is not only about the natural aspects of agricultural production; the authors also adress the non-material benefits ...
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 ...
Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
(2018)
This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.
Film Front Weimar
(2002)
This first book-length study shows how Germany tried to reconcile the horrendous experiences of the FirstWorld War through the films made in 1919-1933. Drawing on the analysis of twenty-five such films, and covering a wide ...
Aspects of Urbanization in China
(2012)
China's rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China's massive wave of urbanization - the largest the world ...
Chapter Moord en brand
(2024)
After the occupation by German troops in May 1940, the German authorities demanded the Dutch fire service be remodelled in line with their own example. In Germany, firefighting had been a police task since 1938. Fire service ...
The Value of Culture
(1997)
Culture manifests itself in everything human, including the ordinary business of everyday life. Culture and art have their own value, but economic values are also constrained. Art sponsorships and subsidies suggest a value ...
The Paradoxes of Transparency
(2009)
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is the central scientific network within the massive set of bureaucracies that is responsible for Europe's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). While spending the ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
Sociale herovering in Amsterdam en Rotterdam: één verhaal over twee wijken - 8
(2005)
Political Science
Uncertain Safety
(2009)
Flood prevention, food safety, transport of hazardous materials, infectious diseases, the risks posed by new technologies, and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. ...
Uncertain Safety
(2009)
Flood prevention, food safety, transport of hazardous materials, infectious diseases, the risks posed by new technologies, and many other threats to public health and the environment call for ongoing public alertness. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Players Unleashed ! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming
(2011)
The author of this hugely informative study explores the question of what happens when players practise and negotiate computer code, various ideologies, and the game itself by modding (modifying a game) in the context of ...
Players Unleashed ! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming
(2011)
The author of this hugely informative study explores the question of what happens when players practise and negotiate computer code, various ideologies, and the game itself by modding (modifying a game) in the context of ...
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, ...
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, ...
Reframing Singapore
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Sociology; Economics
Reframing Singapore
(2009)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Sociology; Economics
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Soldiers and Civil Power
(2005)
Peace operations became the core focus of many Western armed forces after the Cold War. The wish amongst political and military leaders during the 1990s to hold on to the classical identity of the armed forces as an ...
The Immigrant Organising Process
(2006)
This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively ...
De staat van informatie
(2011)
Public administration; Political science
The Big Reset
(2016)
A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve ...
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 ...
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 ...
Acquisition and Loss of Nationality|Volume 2: Country Analyses
(2006)
Nationality and citizenship have been subjects of stormy policy debates in many EU countries in recent years. Concerns over the integration of immigrants, but also attempts to forge links with emigrants, have led to changes ...