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Chapter ‘Spagaat van een dienstweigeraar’
(2024)
Choosing between refusing military service and defending your country is a difficult choice, as a former conscientious objector. What questions should you ask young people? The obligation to attend military service in the ...
Why Are Artists Poor?
(2008)
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low ...
Why Are Artists Poor?
(2008)
Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low ...
Decolonising the Caribbean
(2003)
Much has been written on the post-war decolonisation in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colonies of Surinam, the Netherlands Antilles ...
Decolonising the Caribbean
(2003)
Much has been written on the post-war decolonisation in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly comparative perspective, and seldom with serious attention to the former Dutch colonies of Surinam, the Netherlands Antilles ...
Open Data and the Knowledge Society
(2017)
This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation toward a 'knowledge society'.
De casus Inburgering en Nationaliteitswetgeving: iconen van nationale identiteit
(2007)
Political science
De platformsamenleving: Strijd om publieke waarden in een online wereld
(2016)
Van Airbnb tot Uber, en van Nextdoor tot Facebook, een steeds groter deel van het maatschappelijk en economisch verkeer verloopt via online platformen. De opkomst van deze platformen leidt tot optimistische vertogen. Doordat ...
Chapter ‘Oude drucken … welcke alle … ghesien ende gehanteert zijn’’
(2022)
The present article is the result of the ongoing research of the project ‘The
Dynamics of the Classical Reformed Liturgy in the Netherlands: Its Texts
and their History’. This Liturgy is recorded in numerous psalm books ...
Chapter Doopsgezinden en slavernij – Privé profijt en publiek protest III – Marten Douwes Teenstra (1795-1864) – Afschaffer
(2024)
In this third and final article on the Doopsgezind involvement with the atrocities of slavery in the former Dutch East and West Indies, the spotlight is exclusively on Marten Douwes Teenstra (1795-1864) from the northern ...
Local Identities
(2003)
Investigates how small groups - households and local communities - constitute and represent their social identity by ordering the landscape in which they dwell. The author develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective ...
Chapter De raderbaar van militair-arts Cornelis de Mooy
(2024)
In 1869, Dutch military doctor Cornelis de Mooy invented the litter, ‘raderbaar’, a stretcher on wheels. It was a major improvement in several ways compared with the old brancards. It was comfortable for patients and only ...
Nieuw in Nederland
(2012)
Sociology
Productive Fandom
(2018)
This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.
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 ...
Organizing for Independence
(2024)
Independence protests are on the rise across Europe, as Spain, the UK, and other states have faced severe secessionist challenges. The largest wave of these protests swept Catalonia and reached its peak in 2017 when the ...
Migrants and Markets
(2008)
The established academic discipline that is economics and migration research - as a growing sub-discipline that has inevitably transgressed its own academic bounds - have long treated each other with mutual indifference. ...
Meesterschap in tweevoud
(2009)
Culture and history; Women: historical, geographic, persons treatment; Dutch literature; Dutch and Flemish literature
Feminisms
(2015)
This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to ...
Islam, Civil Society and Social Work
(2008)
The thesis analyses the role of Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan from the perspective of their religious discourse and the related social activities, to assess whether they contribute to empowerment or ...
Dynamism in Islamic Activism
(2006)
The increased tensions surrounding radical Muslims and radical movements in the political Islam are not only manifested in the Western countries but also in the Muslim world itself. Tendencies and political movements that ...
Lustige geesten
(2009)
Dutch literature; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de eenentwintigste eeuw
(2016)
Het boek A Dutch Miracle van J. Visser en A. Hemerijck uit 1997 analyseerde de rol van onderhandelingen, coördinatie en consensus in het Nederlandse Poldermodel en stelde vast dat het cruciale factoren zijn geweest in het ...
Care at a Distance
(2012)
This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare. Combining detailed ethnographic studies of nurses ...
Audiovisions
(1999)
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision -the ...
Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market
(2012)
To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies ...
National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities
(2011)
Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by ...
Open Content Licensing
(2011)
Although open content licences only account for a fraction of all copyright licences currently in force in the copyright world, the mentality change initated by the open content movement is here to stay. To promote the use ...
Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent
(2011)
Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at ...
Bewijzen van goede dienstverlening
(2004)
Political Science
Chapter Nogmaals kijken naar de pijn van anderen, of: de uitdaging van ‘wij ’
(2023)
This essay takes its point of departure in images of the victims of the 2023 Turkish-Syrian earthquake. It examines their rhetoric, comparing them to those of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who washed ashore on a Turkish ...
Media Policy for the Digital Age
(2005)
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector ...
Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
(2019)
Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese ...
Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe
(2010)
This volume is a study of identity processes and identity dynamics in a post-colonial, multiethnic European context that is constantly changing under the pressures of globalisation, migration movements and integration. The ...
Transit Migration in Europe
(2014)
Transit migration is a term that is used to describe mixed flows of different types of temporary migrants, including refugees and labor migrants. In the popular press, it is often confused with illegal or irregular migration ...
Speelruimte voor transparantere rechtspraak
(2013)
Law
Euthanasie
(2004)
Law
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
(2002)
This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of ...
Physical Safety
(2012)
Physical safety is a core task of government. It is neither surprising nor unreasonable for government to be held accountable for hazardous substances, for food safety, for flood protection, for the spread of infectious ...
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination
(2007)
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers' drawings, film stills and archival ...