Publications
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Banking for a Better World
(2017)
When we look at all the challenges facing the world, including inequality, population migration, and climate change, we can see a role for development banking in nearly all of them. But will that role be played for good ...
A New Social Question?
(2006)
Advanced welfare states are said to be facing, in the words of Pierre Rosanvallon, a "New Social Question". The idea here, and it is a widely shared one, is that the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial ...
Chapter Als het met het onderwijs goed gaat, gaat het met ons ook goed
(2022)
This contribution consists of two interviews with experts from the Dutch educational
publishing field. The first interviewee, Rivka Mooren, works as project
editor Higher Education at Pearson Benelux. She explains how ...
Chapter Recensies
(2024)
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Paths of Integration
(2006)
Why do some migrants integrate quickly, while others become long-term minorities? What is the role of the state in the settlement process? To what extent are experiences in the past different from the present? Are the ...
New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema
(2011)
In the 1970s, especially after Franco’s death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters ...
Universiteit Utrecht en koloniale kennis
(2023)
This book tells the story of Utrecht University’s colonial past. Ever since the university was founded in 1636, its scholars and students have been involved in various activities in the Dutch colonies of the West and East ...
Playing the Waves
(2007)
Dogma95 has been heralded as the European alternative to the Hollywood Blockbuster. For many critics and film lovers, Dogma95 and Von Trier's films have become synonymous with the notions usually associated with independent ...
Verder: Beckett en de 21e eeuw
(2008)
Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Culture and institutions; Dutch literature; Dutch and Flemish literature; Stage presentations
Chapter 8 Nieuwe spelers en andere zekerheden
(2016)
Vanouds gaven sociale partners hun doelen rond arbeidsmarkt en inkomenszekerheid vorm via afspraken binnen sectoren. Hun rol bij de
werknemersverzekeringen is echter verdwenen en het sectorale arbeidsvoorwaardenoverleg
verliest ...
This Cannot Happen Here
(2013)
In this book Ben Braber answers the question how the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the second world war. This study highlights the ...
Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch
(2005)
A renowned scholar approaches the history of the Dutch language between 1500 and 1800 from a socio-cultural historian's perspective. He investigates the changing relationship between the vernacular and Latin; the incorporation ...
Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022)
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO’s role in Asia as a global health organization ...
Feeling Threatened
(2006)
Muslim-Christian relations were an important element of the social and political dynamics of Indonesia and an ever-sensitive subject of government policy during the New Order period (1966-1998). Tense relations and mutual ...
Bouwstenen voor betrokken jeugdbeleid
(2007)
Public administration; Political science; Sociology
Medium, Messenger, Transmission
(2015-03-20)
This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger ...
Cities in Asia by and for the People
(2018)
This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods. The ...
Mystifying the Monarch
(2006)
The history of kings and queens has always appealed to popular imagery. Monarchy is also a central theme to classic surveys of political history. The present volume approaches the relation between imagery and authority of ...
Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory
(2017)
This volume brings together a wide range of explorations of the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience and study of film. The book offers analyses by such ...
Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
(2017-04-30)
Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psycho-physiological ...
'Indisch is een gevoel'.De tweede en derde generatie Indische Nederlanders
(2009)
Indische Nederlanders zijn de grootste immigrantengroep die zich ooit in Nederland heeft gevestigd. Er is niet veel over hen bekend en al helemaal niet over hun nazaten. Voelen die zich eigenlijk nog Indisch? In ‘Indisch ...
Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain
(2012)
State regulation of labour migration is confronted with a double paradox. First, while markets require a policy of open borders to fulfill demands for migrant workers, the boundaries of citizenship impose some degree of ...
The Cultural Life of James Bond
(2020)
The release of No Time To Die in 2020 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian ...
Responding to the West
(2009)
The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the ...
Thuis voelen in de buurt: een opgave voor stedelijke vernieuwing
(2009)
Public administration; Sociology
The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(2008)
The Dutch second generation of Turkish and Moroccan origin is coming of age and making a transition from education to the labour market. This first publication of the TIES Project (Towards the Integration of the European ...
Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest
(2015)
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, ...
Techné/Technology
(2014)
This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing ...
Interactive Logic
(2008)
Traditionally, logic has dealt with notions of truth and reasoning. In the past several decades, however, research focus in logic has shifted to the vast field of interactive logic - the domain of logic for both communication ...
Bastard or Playmate?
(2012)
Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with their crossing, upgrading and ...
Trauma and Nostalgia
(2024)
This volume reflects on the significance of nostalgia in the construction of traumatic pasts, both on an individual and a collective level. By employing an interdisciplinary approach, the volume enhances our understanding ...
Practicing Decoloniality in Museums
(2022)
The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. ...
Aan het buitenland gehecht
(2010)
Also available in English "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643285">Attached to the World Few other countries are so interrelated with the world around us in political, economic, and social respects ...
The Russian Second Generation in Tallinn and Kohtla-Järve
(2011)
Second-generation Russians face two major integration challenges in the Estonian cities of Tallinn and Kohtla-Järve. They are segregated from an Estonian language society whose historical background lies in the policies ...
War of Words
(2012)
Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the Boer republics and the British Empire. Dutch popular opinion was on the side of the Boers: these descendants of the ...
Acting Emotions
(2000)
Actors and actresses play characters such as the embittered Medea, or the lovelorn Romeo, or the grieving and tearful Hecabe. The theatre audience holds its breath, and then sparks begin to fly. But what about the actor? ...
Wetenschap in Nederland. Waar een klein land groot in is en moet blijven
(2017)
De Nederlandse wetenschap doet het uitstekend. Op wereldwijde ranglijsten scoren onze onderzoekers, universiteiten en instituten opmerkelijk hoog. In dit essay onderzoeken José van Dijck en Wim van Saarloos, president en ...
Chapter 7 Sociale zekerheid ‘migratie-proof’
(2016)
Migratie en sociale zekerheid worden vaak gezien als onmogelijk koppel; migranten drukken op de schatkist en ze ondermijnen de solidariteit
die nodig is voor sociale zekerheid. Daarom wordt vaak gezegd dat er
een keus ...
Democratie door interventie
(2006)
Public administration; Political science
The Last Great American Picture Show
(2004)
The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but ...