Publications
Now showing items 1621-1630 of 1891
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
(2017-11-01)
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in ...
Doing Good or Doing Better
(2009)
The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad ...
Looking for Loopholes
(2003)
Looking for Loopholes, Processes of incorporation of illegal immigrants in the Netherlands offers a detailed account of how illegal immigrants, who are legally excluded, manage to incorporate into Dutch society. By combining ...
Verlichte verhalen
(2023)
By describing their present as ‘enlightened’, eighteenth-century intellectuals inevitably altered their relationship to the past. In search of an explanation for this Enlightenment, eighteenth-century authors created a ...
Chapter ‘Het is altijd een herinnering aan de watersnoodramp’
(2024)
This article contains the personal account of Sergeant Reinder van de Put of the national police force, based on his correspondence after he was sent to the area affected by the 1953 North Sea flood. It first focuses on ...
Social Concertation in Times of Austerity
(2013)
Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation ...
A Pregnant Past: The Dutch Seventeenth Century in the Global Twenty-first
(2015)
Seventh Golden Age Lecture on the Dutch seventeenth century in the global twenty-first
Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, ...
Chapter ‘Is it possible to represent her freshly without reproducing sexist and racist appropriation?’
(2023)
When black South African artist Willie Bester, whose art persistently criticizes the colonial and totalitarian history of his country, created a sculpture of Sarah Bartmann (or Saartjie Bartmann) out of recycled material, ...
Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives
(2013)
This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the ...