Publications
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Immigrant Associations, Integration and Identity
(2009)
This book sheds light on the integration processes and identity patterns of Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European communities in Portugal. It examines the privileged position that immigrant organisations hold as interlocutors ...
The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier
(2019)
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, ...
Global Indian Diasporas
(2007)
This book discusses the relation of South Asian migrants to their homeland, the reproduction of Indian culture abroad and the role of the Indian state in reconnecting migrants of India, focusing on the limits of the diaspora ...
Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good
(2018)
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between ...
Queer Festivals
(2018)
Is queer really anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Wise Merchant
(2019)
On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the city's university - Caspar Barlaeus delivered a speech that has continued to arouse the curiosity of researchers and the ...
Shababz!
(2024)
Join the four protagonists on an exciting journey as they dive into the most current discussions about Islam and feminism, typically reserved for academia and specialized feminists. Zahra proudly wears the hijab and ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2021)
The 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 ...
Chapter Scholarly feminists
(2023)
In this article we reflect on our longstanding work within a powerful European network of feminist scholars. Here we consider how we have collaboratively created and sustained embodied infrastructures of care in building ...
Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe
(2022)
The project of European integration has undergone a succession of shocks, beginning with the Eurozone crisis, followed by reactions to the sudden growth of irregular migration, and, most recently, the Coronavirus pandemic. ...
Het gezicht van de publieke zaak
(2010)
Public administration; Political science
Ecogames
(2024)
Ecogames, games for change, future worlds, nonhuman epistemologies, metagaming practices
Doing Good or Doing Better
(2009)
The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad ...
The New Eurocrats
(2008)
Policies in the EU are largely made by national civil servants who prepare and implement decisions in Brussels as well as at home. Despite their important role, these national civil servants form a relatively hidden world ...
Oog voor elkaar
(2008)
People like to live in a safe neighborhood. Areas with a variety of facilities like houses, offices and shops seem to be an important strategy to improve the safety of a neighborhood. More people on the streets means better ...
Het heilige huis
(2006)
Culture and history; Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Culture and institutions
Orchestrating Public Opinion
(2017-12-21)
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns.
Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, ...
Persuasive Gaming in Context
(2021)
The rapid developments of new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in the last decades. The ubiquitous presence ...
The Riddle of Literary Quality
(2023)
What is literature? Can we measure ‘literariness’ in texts themselves? The innovative Computational Humanities project The Riddle of Literary Quality asked thousands of Dutch readers for their opinion about contemporary ...
Navigating Borders
(2007)
Navigating Borders into the Netherlands provides a unique in-depth look at human smuggling processes. Based on biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands, the study reveals considerable differences ...
Chapter 1 De toekomst van de sociale (on)zekerheid
(2016)
Lang ging het debat over de toekomst van de sociale zekerheid vooral over de vraag wat er aan technische aanpassingen aan het stelsel aangebracht
moeten worden. Inmiddels dienen zich twee fundamentelere vragen
aan. ...
Islam on the Move
(2012)
Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and ...
Educational Reception in Rotterdam and Barcelona: Policies, Practices and Gaps
(2014)
The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of ...
In Death's Waiting Room
(2008)
In Death's Waiting Room is a penetrating story about people suffering from dementia in a multi-cultural society, relevant to us all. Anne-Mei The carried out two years of ethnographic research in a nursing home in the ...
Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication
(2024)
Valid and reliable measurement of media and communication exposure is crucial for communication science, psychology, political science, sociology, pedagogy, economics, and law, and the practitioners in media, communication, ...
Traditional Tunes and Lived Religion in the Protestant Church on the Central Moluccas, Indonesia
(2025)
In the southeast of Indonesia, on the Moluccas, theologians are developing contextual theologies for the Moluccan Protestant church. The Moluccas were colonized by the Dutch for more than three centuries. As an effort of ...
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 ...
Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia
(2025)
Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term “cultural security” not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms ...
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected
(2025)
In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.
Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
(2025)
In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the “last generation of elephant doctors.” Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group ...
Alexander Kluge
(2011)
Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television ...
iOverheid
(2011)
How does the use of ict affect the relationship between government and its citizens? This book analyses the developments of networking information and concludes that in everyday practice an iGovernment has gradually come ...
Genoeg is genoeg
(2008)
Since some years there has been a significant trend in the democratization of health care in the Netherlands. Where in the old days patients used to be able to just rest and receive care, nowadays they have to get active. ...
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 ...
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
(2023)
This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, ...
Kurt Baschwitz
(2018)
Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968) had a lifelong fascination for ‘the riddle of the
mass’ in both its visible and invisible forms. He was a major pioneer of communication
and media studies on the European continent, an early ...
The Art of Audit. Eight remarkable government auditors on stage
(2015)
Accountability, good government and public trust are intricately linked. Supreme Audit Institutions fulfil an exceptional role in the public domain, checking if governments spend their money properly. They are like 'watchdogs' ...