Publications
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Religious Architecture
(2013)
Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives develops an anthropological perspective on modern religious architecture, including mosques, churches and synagogues. Borrowing from a range of theoretical perspectives ...
Chapter 5 Sociale zekerheid in een open samenleving
(2016)
In dit hoofdstuk wordt verkend hoe sociale zekerheid in een postindustriële samenleving er uit zou kunnen zien. Eerst worden de economische en
maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen die gepaard gaan met postindustrialisering
in ...
Chapter 3 De sociale onzekerheid
(2016)
Het sociale zekerheidssysteem is voortdurend aan veranderingen onderhevig. De laatste jaren ligt de nadruk daarbij vooral op meer
eigen verantwoordelijkheid van burgers en minder collectiviteit. Bij de
kwetsbare groepen ...
Solidariteit en slachtofferschap
(2008)
What is it that really binds Dutch people together? That's the central question of many public debates.This study focuses on the the role of victimhood on our concept of society. Drawing on the works of the American ...
The deliverance of open access books
(2019)
In many scholarly disciplines, books - not articles - are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer ...
Chapter Aesthetics and politics in contemporary South Africa
(2023)
South Africa is a context within which Rosemarie Buikema has thought deeply and conducted much of her empirical research for her book Revolts in Critique. This contribution pursues some of the ways in which Buikema’s ...
Het minderhedenbeleid voorbij
(2013)
Government; Sociology
Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World
(2008)
The modern pilgrimage - to sites ranging from Elvis's Graceland to the Vietnam veterans' annual Ride to the Wall to Jim Morrison's Paris grave - is intertwined with our existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly ...
Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film
(2002)
This monograph departs from traditional studies of national cinema by accentuating the intercultural and intertextual links between Malaysian films and Asian (as well as European and American) film practices. Using ...
The Politics of Justification
(2002)
The Politics of Justification is an investigation of welfare retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1982-1998. Welfare retrenchment is politically highly controversial, but still governments do retrench. This book ...
The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815
(2016)
This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between ...
List Cultures
(2017)
We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, ...
De geesteswetenschappelijke carrousel
(2006)
Philosophy; Political science; Culture and institutions; Anthropology
Chapter 11 Tussen hoop en vrees
(2016)
Bij zekerheid wordt meestal gedacht aan gevaren die van buitenaf komen. Om zich tegen dergelijke risico’s te verdedigen ontwikkelt elke samenleving
betrouwbare voorzieningen. Denk aan het vormen van een dijkenstelsel,
een ...
The Universe, Life and Everything...Dialogues on our Changing Understanding of Reality
(2017)
The way we understand the world we live in is changing. Our traditional understanding is being challenged by developments in physics, including quantum mechanics, and our inability to explain certain complex phenomena such ...
Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
(2013)
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language ...
Urban Screens
(2025)
This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a methodological approach and conceptual toolset for the critical examination, ...
Figuring the Past
(2012)
This definitive work offers a new approach to the period film at the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. This book explores the relation between ...
Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries
(2016)
The Dutch Republic was a cultural powerhouse in the modern era, producing lasting masterpieces in painting and publishing-and in the process transforming those fields from modest trades to booming industries. This book ...
Vertrouwen in burgers
(2012)
Public administration