Publications
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The Empty Showcase Syndrome
(2024)
European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, they are confronted with hard choices. In The Empty Showcase Syndrome, Jos ...
Making Technology Masculine
(1999)
To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical ...
Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity
(2006)
Christou explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey. Transforming Ethnic Conflict
(2016)
This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On ...
Inside Installations
(2011)
Anything is possible in installation art. The typically short lifespan of the materials and techniques used and the intended experience can be endless, often to the despair of the custodian of the work. The processes ...
The Republican Alternative
(2008)
The Netherlands and Switzerland are among the world's most economically successful societies. Their inhabitants enjoy high standards of living and express great satisfaction with their lives according to surveys. This ...
Handleiding voor de determinatie van harde dierlijke materialen
(2008)
Is an object made from bone or ivory? Was an elephant, walrus or hippo's tusk used to in the production? In this book the author illustrates how the various materials of animal origin can be recognized. All hard animal ...
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 ...
Geloven in het publiek domein: verkenningen van een dubbele transformatie - 13
(2006)
Religion; Political Science
Chapter Reading to reveal the world
(2023)
Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary ...
Voor vorst en stad
(2010)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Dutch and Flemish literature
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 ...
Nazi Soundscapes
(2012)
Following the formation of the German National Socialist Party in the 1920s, various forms of sound (popular music, voice, noise and silence) and media technology (radio and loudspeaker systems) were configured as useful ...
The Expansion of Tolerance
(2007)
This volume about religious tolerance in early modern Brazil comprises two articles. Jonathan Israel, in his contribution, argues that Dutch tolerance in Brazil was unprecedented in the seventeenth century. Catholics and ...
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 ...
Werk en inkomsten na massaontslag
(2008)
Popular science
Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922
(2017)
This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, ...
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 ...
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 Luchtalarm! Gas!
(2024)
Since poison gas was used during World War I, long-range bombers had been introduced and tensions were rising in Europe, the Air Raid Precautions Act was passed in the Netherlands in 1936. The legislation emphasised ...
Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity
(2009)
This volume explores the theme of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in societies of the ancient world. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a subjective construct that is ...
Chapter Redden, bergen, pompen, puinruimen en spuiten
(2024)
The fire brigade was the first to dispatch emergency teams to the disaster area and provide assistance day and night, thanks to its omnipresence and versatility. This meant that local, voluntary firefighters were probably ...
Macht in de metropool
(2023)
During Antwerp's Golden Age, the city replaced Bruges as the primary trading hub of Western Europe. Antwerp transformed from a medium-sized Brabantine town to an unparalleled metropolis in the Low Countries with over 100.000 ...
Logic and Automata
(2007)
Mathematical logic and automata theory are two scientific disciplines with a fundamentally close relationship. The authors of Logic and Automata take the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Wolfgang Thomas to present a ...
Het minderhedenbeleid voorbij
(2013)
Government; Sociology
Border Deaths
(2019)
Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe ...
Migration Policymaking in Europe
(2011)
This important work analyses immigration and immigrant inclusion policies in ten European countries, examining how such policies are formed and subsequently implemented. The study singles out the important role of usually ...
Chapter ‘Vreemdelingschap’ – Mennonite Central Committee – 100 jaar samenwerking in Europa
(2024)
The revised text of a lecture held in 2022 on the history of the Mennonite Central Committee and the Mennonitische Umsiedler Betreuung, especially on their relief work in Europe. Included are subjects as the Mennonite ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953)
(2018)
This book is a first step toward a serious reassessment of the mostly unspoken theoretical and aesthetic premises underlying auteur theory.
Uit zicht
(2010)
Public administration; Political science
Chapter Karel Vos (1874 - 1926), een eigenzinnig dopers geschiedbeoefenaar
(2024)
Karel Vos (1874-1926) was a prominent figure in Anabaptist historiography, dedicating his life to studying and documenting the history of the Dutch Mennonite tradition. Despite limited access to archives, he conducted ...
Avoiding the Subject
(2004)
What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local ...
Chapter Doopsgezinde archieven in het Allard Pierson
(2024)
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The EU-Thailand Relations
(2010)
Political science
Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science
(2012)
Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within ...