Publications
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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 ...