Publications
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The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials
(2008)
From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume ...
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 ...
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
(2021)
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and ...
AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
(2011)
In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the concerns of rural people ...
My Name Is Not Natasha'
(2009)
This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied experiences, including ...
BEING PROFILED:COGITAS ERGO SUM
(2018)
Profiling the European citizen: why today's democracy needs to look harder at the negative potential of new technology than at its positive potential.
Religiously Exclusive, Socially Inclusive?
(2023)
Is it possible to be religiously exclusive and socially inclusive? How do we deal with those outside of our own religious community who have completely different and sometimes conflicting views on what should be considered ...
Contesting Austerity
(2022)
Despite the historical and political similarities between Portugal and Spain, the contentious responses to austerity diverged in terms of number, rhythm and players. This book compares the contentious responses to austerity ...
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 ...
The Politics of Social Media Manipulation
(2020)
Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful introduction of false information for the purposes of causing harm, recalls infamous foreign interference ...
Dynamic Entrepreneurship
(2006)
The nature of immigrant entrepreneurship is changing in Dutch society. Nowadays, many immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses in producer and personal services instead of more traditional sectors such as retail or hotel ...
The Governance of International Migration
(2018)
As concern about immigration has grown within Europe in recent years, the European Union has brought pressure to bear on countries that are allegedly not sufficiently governing irregular migration with and within their ...
Hooligans, fans en fanatisme
(2008)
Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, ...
How to Study Art Worlds
(2009)
This necessary and thought-provoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfi lls in our culture. The author sets out to establish how the ...
Zootechnologies
(2019)
Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance ...
Het fenomeen Hazes: Een venster op Nederland
(2015)
Since the passing of André Hazes he has become a more prominent figure in contemporary Dutch popular culture.
De menselijke beslisser
(2009)
Public administration; Political science
Branding Books Across the Ages
(2021)
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained ...
Dan liever dood!
(2022)
Martyrs have a special status in every religion. They are "heroes" who give their lives for their ideals. Their death acquires a symbolic meaning and its own story within their own religious tradition. There is no fixed ...
Het virus der betrokkenheid
(2019)
Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) is een van de meest vooraanstaande onderzoeksinstituten ter wereld op het terrein van de sociale geschiedenis, zowel in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek als in ...
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 ...
Responding to the West
(2009)
The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the ...
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
(2022)
Georg Marggrafe, Colonial Dutch Brazil, Early Modern Science, Astronomy, 17th century
Nieuw in Nederland
(2012)
Sociology
Colonial Vocabularies
(2025)
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World ...
Film Festivals
(2007)
Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world's most famous festivals - Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam - Film Festivals tells the story of a phenomenon that ...
Chapter Als het met het onderwijs goed gaat, gaat het met ons ook goed
(2022)
This contribution consists of two interviews with experts from the Dutch educational
publishing field. The first interviewee, Rivka Mooren, works as project
editor Higher Education at Pearson Benelux. She explains how ...
Aan het buitenland gehecht
(2010)
Also available in English "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643285">Attached to the World Few other countries are so interrelated with the world around us in political, economic, and social respects ...
Chapter 7 Sociale zekerheid ‘migratie-proof’
(2016)
Migratie en sociale zekerheid worden vaak gezien als onmogelijk koppel; migranten drukken op de schatkist en ze ondermijnen de solidariteit
die nodig is voor sociale zekerheid. Daarom wordt vaak gezegd dat er
een keus ...
Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest
(2015)
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, ...
Seeking Peace in the Wake of War. Europe, 1943-1947
(2015)
When the Second World War ended, Europe was in ruins. Yet, politically and socially, the years between 1943 and 1947 were a time of dramatic reconfigurations, which proved to be foundational for the making of today's Europe. ...
Stories
(2018)
Stories are central drivers of media today-not only do they propel plot-driven entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theatre, but also social media. Telling and having a story is widely deemed essential, both ...
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 ...
Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology
(2014)
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social ...
Challenging Coasts
(2004)
Following its launch at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) became a key tool for national governments and international organisations alike. This volume argues that ...
Braving Troubled Waters
(2009)
Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fishermen of the Dutch island ...
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500
(2025)
This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its ...
World of Difference
(2017)
Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better ...
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces
(2025)
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The ...
The Dutch and English East India Companies
(2018-10-02)
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.
The ...