Publications
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Geven in Nederland 2022
(2022)
Giving in the Netherlands provides the macro-economic estimates of philanthropy by households, bequests, foundations, corporations and lotteries. The Center for Philanthropic Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has ...
Chapter Ere, wie ere toekomt
(2025)
Although the Central Board of the Dutch Red Cross did not purchase ambulances after World War I, various local departments became interested in acquiring and operating an ambulance. They hoped to increase the visibility ...
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume II, Aesthetics and Ontology
(2021)
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn ...
Doing Digital Migration Studies
(2024)
Doing Digital Migration present a comprehensive entry point to the variety of theoretical debates, methodological interventions, political discussions and ethical debates around migrant forms of belonging as articulated ...
The Maritime Silk Road
(2022)
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which ...
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces
(2022)
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks ...
Engaged Humanities
(2022)
What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a ...
The Future of Cultural Analysis
(2025)
Across the humanities and the social sciences, “cultural analysis” is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdisciplinarity, political ...
Post-cinema
(2020)
This volume explores new ways of considering, experiencing and making films in a time of technological transition. It brings together an international group of scholars and artists from a variety of countries, who speak ...
Pathways in Decentralised Collective Bargaining in Europe
(2023)
One of the main challenges in labour relations in Europe is the ongoing decentralisation of collective bargaining from national and sectoral levels to company levels. Decentralisation might be an answer to business needs ...
Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea
(2023)
Nationalism in a nation-state reflects its emergent structural, cultural, and personal properties at a given time. In the politico-historical context of South Korea and the globe, the fruits of the 1968 Revolution in France ...
Contesting Austerity
(2022)
Despite the historical and political similarities between Portugal and Spain, the contentious responses to austerity diverged in terms of number, rhythm and players. This book compares the contentious responses to austerity ...
Dan liever dood!
(2022)
Martyrs have a special status in every religion. They are "heroes" who give their lives for their ideals. Their death acquires a symbolic meaning and its own story within their own religious tradition. There is no fixed ...
The Politics of Social Media Manipulation
(2020)
Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful introduction of false information for the purposes of causing harm, recalls infamous foreign interference ...
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
(2018)
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women “as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage" wielded power ...
Branding Books Across the Ages
(2021)
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained ...
Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature
(2017)
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to ...
Chapter Tegen wil en dank
(2025)
Since its establishment in 1867, the Dutch Red Cross primarily focused on neutral assistance on the battlefield and support for the Military Medical Service. Influenced by two disasters that struck the Netherlands in the ...
Television before TV
(2022)
Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive ...
Zootechnologies
(2019)
Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance ...
The Reform of Bismarckian Pension Systems
(2005)
Pension reform has emerged as a major political issue in most advanced welfare states. Sluggish economic growth and rising unemployment put public pension systems under increasing financial pressure. In combination with a ...
Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe
(2024)
Following recent historiographical appeals on the need to study knowledge exchanges between European maritime rivals and their impact on overseas expansionist processes, this book makes this study for the Portuguese overseas ...
Oorlogsboeven
(2024)
During the Second World War, crime rates skyrocketed in the occupied Netherlands, particularly concerning theft and other offences against property. These crimes were committed by both those who had been convicted in the ...
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
(2021)
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and ...
Religiously Exclusive, Socially Inclusive?
(2023)
Is it possible to be religiously exclusive and socially inclusive? How do we deal with those outside of our own religious community who have completely different and sometimes conflicting views on what should be considered ...
Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries
(2020)
The title of the book pays tribute to two Dutch scientists without whom
virology would arguably not exist today, at least not in its present guise. The
first is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, whose reports of microscopic ...
Gentrification and the Media
(2025)
Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who ...
Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes
(2024)
The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first ...
Woodcuts as Reading Guides
(2024)
In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on ...
What is European?
(2025)
It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European?, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubling turn. He shows ...
Chapter De kat uit de boom kijken
(2025)
This article discusses how the fire brigade has developed over the years to rescue animals. From the first official manuals in 1955 to modern rescue operations, the tools and techniques for rescuing animals, such as horses ...
Authorizing Early Modern European Women
(2022)
The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention ...
The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
(2025)
Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakes—these are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema. ...
Chinese Heritage in the Making
(2018)
The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their ...
Crisis en catastrofe
(2021)
"Historical research into disasters and disaster processing has expanded enormously in recent years. The threat of climate disasters and pandemics is raising awareness that disasters have a major impact on community ...
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 ...
Piracy in World History
(2021)
In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the ...
Art and Its Geographies
(2024)
Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a ...
The Former “Yugoslavia Tribunal” as Monument of Justice
(2025)
After Nuremberg, there is probably no other place where the future of Europe has been so definitively tested and safeguarded as in The Hague. The iconic building of the former International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...
Data Visualization in Society
(2020)
Today we are witnessing an increased use of data visualization in society. Across domains such as work, education and the news, various forms of graphs, charts and maps are used to explain, convince and tell stories. In ...
Women in the Silent Cinema
(2017)
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long ...
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War
(2025)
Bosnia-Herzegovina is still considered a post-war country. The concept of "post-war" implies that the country and its people are tied more strongly to the past than they are oriented towards the future. Paradoxically, as ...
Francophonie and the Orient
(2018)
Based on transnational France-Asia approaches, this book studies Asian cultures once steeped in French civilisation but free of a colonial mode in order to highlight the transliterary examples of cultural transfer. This ...
Technics
(2024)
Technics gathers leading international media scholars to rethink technology for the contemporary digital era. The volume’s 28 contributors provide cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological reflections ...
How Film Histories Were Made
(2024)
This book proposes a transnational, entangledand culturally diverse approach towards anarchaeology of film history, while paying specificattention to persons, objects, infrastructures,regions, institutional fields and ...
Innovatiekracht
(2025)
The Netherlands faces enormous challenges: climate change, our national security is at stake and maintaining prosperity and welfare requires our time, effort and innovative thoughts. Innovation power, the ability to actually ...
Fanfiction and the Author
(2017-01-08)
Through a rigorous quantitative/qualitative discourse analysis - never before undertaken in relation to online fanfiction and its reception - Fanfiction and the Author demonstrates how fanfic relating to Sherlock, Game of ...
Communication Research into the Digital Society
(2024)
Media and communication have become ubiquitous in today’s societies and affect all aspects of life. On an individual level, they impact how we learn about the world, how we entertain ourselves, and how we interact with ...
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
(2018-01-31)
The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are ...
Spaces
(2024)
Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by André Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to spaces and places other ...
Films That Work Harder
(2024)
Industrial film, non-theatrical film, film studies and science and technology studies, economic history, visual culture
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 ...
ASML en de Nederlandse natuurkunde
(2025)
In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced ...
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 ...
Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands
(2023)
This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell ...
Body, Capital, and Screens:
(2020)
This book began life with the inaugural conference of the international
research project ‘The healthy self as body capital: Individuals, market-based
societies, body politics and visual media in the twentieth century ...
Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933
(2023)
This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a diverse array of groups, ...
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 ...
Imams in Western Europe
(2018)
As European Muslims and Muslims in the Middle East diverge, imams in Europe have emerged as major agents of religious authority who shape Islam’s presence in Western societies. This volume examines the theoretical and ...
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia
(2019)
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast ...
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 ...
Beyond the Pale
(2022)
On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted ...
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 ...
Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
(2020)
Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or ...
Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope
(2023)
Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological ...
Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia
(2015-06-01)
This volume brings together a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to address crucial questions of migration flows and integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Comparative analysis of the three ...
The Dutch and English East India Companies
(2018-10-02)
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.
The ...
River Cities in Asia
(2022)
River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, ...
Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation around the World
(2025)
Sex work is often called the oldest profession in the world. It manifests itself in a plethora of forms. A move to private locations is now taking place: contacts are established via the Internet and meetings take place ...
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia
(2019)
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast ...
Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist
(2018)
How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, ...
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
(2024)
This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2025)
Syntax of Hungarian aims 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, ...
May ’68
(2018)
Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralysing ...
Notions of Privacy at Early Modern European Courts
(2024)
Grand, extravagant, magnificent, scandalous, corrupt, political, personal, fractious; these are terms often associated with the medieval and early modern courts. Moreover, the court constituted a forceful nexus in the ...
The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language
(2020)
The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language is a guide for anyone interested in the much-discussed rules of the GDPR. In this legislation, which came into force in 2018, the European Union meticulously describes ...
Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
(2025)
With the inclusion of twelve original articles by established and emerging international scholars, this volume offers critical reading of literary and cinematic texts produced in China and Sinophone communities between the ...
Veilig = Safe
(2024)
Safe is the first and only periodical publication in the Netherlands on public safety heritage. This yearbook focuses on the extensive and leading collection of Korpora, Public Safety Heritage, in operation since 1 August ...
Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism
(2024)
For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority ...
The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy
(2025)
Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from the North Sea to ...