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World Building
(2017-09-13)
This edited collection of original essays situates itself at the cutting edge of media theory, exploring imaginary worlds as forms of knowledge and forms of life. By exploring the concept of worlds from theoretical and ...
Gelijke kansen in de stad
(2019)
Sociale gelijkheid is goed voor iedereen. Het vormt een buffer tegen drugsgebruik,
criminaliteit, gezondheidsproblemen (lichamelijk én psychisch)
en wantrouwen (van mensen jegens elkaar en de gemeenschap). Streven
naar ...
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, ...
Global Diffusion of Protest. Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis
(2017)
Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original ...
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
Sound Souvenirs
(2009)
In recent decades, the importance of sound for remembering the past and for creating a sense of belonging has been increasingly acknowledged. We keep "sound souvenirs" such as cassette tapes and long play albums in our ...
Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform
(2009)
The author of this innovative study argues that key politicians and their policy ideas, through "ideational leadership", have played an important role in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German ...
Wees positief!
(2022)
The concept of empowerment is hard to miss in the field of social work, (health)care and welfare. Here, empowerment seems to stand for the autonomy and competence of the individual, who learns to make a positive contribution ...
Migrant Protest
(2021)
Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are considered anomalies in social ...
Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers
(2009)
Most literary analysis of the canon of Indonesian literature overlooks its religious aspect. This book is the first to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian ...
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 ...
Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
(2017)
This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new ...
Frontier Tibet
(2019)
Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial ...
Het wonder van Sint-Maarten
(2022)
What makes a happy city? How can a city respond adequately and resiliently to a crisis disrupting civic society? Answers to these timeless questions differ through time. A Miracle of St Martin – Utrecht a Happy City tells ...
Chapter Did Peter van Selow (1582-1650) have Dutch roots?
(2022)
Previous attempts to describe the life of Peter van Selow, one of the more
important type founders and printers in Sweden during the first half of the
seventeenth century, have suffered from serious deficiencies: we knew ...
How Modern Science Came into the World
(2010)
Once upon a time ‘The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as ‘the ...
Shaping Film Festivals In a Changing World
(2025)
This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities ...
Chapter 2 Actuele bestaansonzekerheid
(2016)
Sociale zekerheid dient de bestaanszekerheid te garanderen. Maar bestaanszekerheid is een steeds groter begrip geworden, dat ook te
maken heeft met vraagstukken van identiteit en veiligheid. Door grote
migratiebewegingen ...
Facing Forward. Art and Theory from a Future Perspective
(2015)
This spirited exploration of the interfaces between art and theory in the 21st century brings together a multidisciplinary range of viewpoints on their future. The authors examine contemporary visual culture based on ...
The Impact of Losing Your Job
(2016)
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering ...