Publications
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Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism
(2013)
This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular ...
Labour in a Single Shot
(2022)
This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art ...
Enhanced Publications
(2009)
In the digital world of scholarly publishing online access is provided to articles, hyperlinked reference and supplementary data. Connection with social networking, e.g. blogs, relation with other materials, e.g. multimedia, ...
Livestock for Sale
(2016)
The civitas Batavorum was a settlement on the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire, and it is now the site of numerous archaeological excavations. This book offers the most up-to-date look yet at what has been ...
Medieval Communities and the Mad
(2020)
The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. This book considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad. The ...
Chinese Environmental Contention
(2019)
A plethora of new actors has in recent years entered China’s environmental arena. In Western countries, the linkages and diffusion processes between such actors often drive environmental movements. Through a study of Chinese ...
Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings
(2017-05-10)
This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings. The common thread ...
Turning Gardens in Japan into Japanese Gardens
(2025)
In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity. Only in the late nineteenth century did a new class of political and business leaders revive interest in horticulture, ...
Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan
(2024)
Hobbes, Leviathan, Virtue, Rhetoric, Sovereignty
Visions of Electric Media
(2019)
*Visions of Electric Media* is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional ...
Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
(2022)
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent ...
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies
(2021)
This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out ...
Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence
(2019)
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of ...
Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures
(2021)
Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European ...
De puber en de pedagoog
(2025)
While the First World War raged outside, fifteen-year-old Jaap Kann sat indoors and struggled with his schoolwork. He was the terror of his teachers and consistently failed his subjects. Rather than studying, he preferred ...
Pacific Strife
(2015-03-13)
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed ...
Educational mobility of Second-Generation Turks
(2014)
This definitive study investigates the variations in educational mobility of Turkish second-generation immigrants in France, Austria and Sweden. The findings show that differences are most pronounced in the Austrian education ...
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
(2021)
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary ...
Borderland City in New India
(2016)
Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India’s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India’s embrace of neoliberalism and ...
Slavery in the Cultural Imagination
(2025)
With the rising tide of scholarly and societal interest in the history and legacy of colonialism and slavery, this collection offers a much-needed diachronic analysis of the cultural representations of the lives and ...
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 ...