Publications
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Music Worlding in Palau
(2022)
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness—that ...
What about Asia?
(2006)
What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and America to test the strength of a field of study which, considering the rise of Asia, should be gaining momentum. But is it? This is ...
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations
(2013)
What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to ...
American Multiculturalism after 9/11
(2009)
This groundbreaking volume explores the multicultural debate that has evolved in the United States and Europe since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Instead of suggesting closure by presenting a unified narrative about ...
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases. Volume 3
(2016)
The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all ...
Music Worlding in Palau
(2022)
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness—that ...
The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
(2013)
The art of Samuel van Hoogstraten
Migration in A Globalised World
(2012)
The last two decades have witnessed sweeping changes in the composition, orientation and dynamics of international migration. While it's no surprise these transformations affect societies of origin and settlement, we still ...
The Playful Citizen
(2019)
This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.
Chapter Coetzee’s Disgrace
(2023)
In this essay I discuss Buikema’s ideas about the specific function of literature in times of social upheaval and political violence. Buikema resists the current tendency to reduce engaged novels to their political views ...
Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste
(2019)
Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage ...
Films that Work
(2009)
The history of industrial films - an orphan genre of twentieth-century cinema composed of government-produced and industrially sponsored movies that sought to achieve the goals of their sponsors, rather than the creative ...
The Playful Citizen
(2019)
This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.
Nederland en de Europese grondwet - 1
(2003)
Political Science; European Union
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 ...
The Madrasa in Asia
(2008)
Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward ...
From War to the Rule of Law
(2007)
As recent events in Iraq demonstrate, countries that have suffered civil war or rule by military regime can face a long, difficult transition to peaceful democracy. Drawing on the experiences of Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda and ...
The Drawing of the Mark of Cain
(2009)
Antisemitism is an exceptional historical phenomenon. Its history goes back at least 2000 years and has manifested itself in many countries and in a wide range of societies. However, it is not a universal phenomenon. Many ...
The Drawing of the Mark of Cain
(2009)
Antisemitism is an exceptional historical phenomenon. Its history goes back at least 2000 years and has manifested itself in many countries and in a wide range of societies. However, it is not a universal phenomenon. Many ...
De kwestie Europa
(2009)
Political science
De kwestie Europa
(2009)
Political science
Europa in Nederland
(2007)
Political science
Nederland en de Europese grondwet - 1
(2003)
Political Science; European Union
The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
(2006)
What have Lumière in common with Wachowski? More than one hundred years separate these two pairs of brothers who astonished, quite similarly, the film spectator of their respective time with special effects of movement: a ...
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland: Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter
(2019)
This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it ...
Leren van de praktijk
(2006)
Sociology
Less Pretension, More Ambition
(2010)
Development aid has become the subject of much discussion. Why do we give aid, and does it help? What do we know about the development paths being taken by various countries, or the possibilities of helping them to achieve ...
Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands: Aspirations and Incorporation
(2014)
In 'Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands', Masja van Meeteren studies the different ways in which irregular migrants live in Belgium and the Netherlands. The book offers an empirically grounded theoretical ...
Als ze maar van me afblijven
(2008)
Sociology
Syntax of Dutch
(2012)
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 ...
Revolutionary Worlds
(2023)
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely ...
Als ze maar van me afblijven
(2008)
Sociology
Revolutionary Worlds
(2023)
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely ...
Syntax of Dutch
(2012)
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 ...
How Welfare States Care
(2007)
A social revolution has taken place in Europe. Women's employment patterns changed drastically the last decades. But they are still different across Europe. Welfare state scholars often presume that diversity and change ...
Social Movements in China and Hong Kong
(2009)
The starting point of this book is the acknowledgement that on one side Chinese individuals, freer from the constraints of the State, have to rely on their own efforts for their well-being and, on the other side, in some ...
Installation Art and the Museum
(2013)
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials ...
Innovatie vernieuwd
(2008)
Innovation means more than having the right ideas and knowledge. It is also a matter of organization and skills. Dutch society is in need of a new, open innovation policy with special attention for social innovation. In ...
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 ...
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 ...