Publications
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Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media
(2018)
This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and ...
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces
(2025)
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The ...
Visions of the End in Medieval Spain
(2017)
Never before have all twenty-nine illustrated copies of the Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse been brought together for comparative analysis in a single volume. John Williams, renowned expert on the Commentaries, offers ...
Algorithmic Regimes
(2024)
Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer ...
European Women’s Letter-writing from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries
(2023)
This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression ...
Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age
(2023)
Film archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appropriation, and academic reinterpretation of film material that demand scholarly attention. Exploring ...
Cycling Pathways
(2022)
In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Netherlands became the ...
Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh
(2022)
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the north-eastern borderlands of Bangladesh, this book focuses on the everyday struggles of indigenous farmers threatened with losing their land due to such state programmes ...
The Conscience of Cinema
(2016)
The Conscience of Cinema is not only a history of a rich and varied personal oeuvre by a prolific documentary maker who worked on every continent and through seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is also the history ...
Interculturele competentie in het universitair onderwijs in Nederlands als vreemde taal
(2025)
The value of intercultural competence in everyday life is undeniable. It expands our cognitive horizons, fosters openness to others, and enables us to recognize and critically analyze cultural differences and similarities. ...
The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War
(2025)
This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes ...
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 ...
Borderland Infrastructures
(2020)
Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic ...
Chapter ‘Nicht auf befreundete Personen schießen.’
(2025)
In 2002 the Dutch police adopted the pepperspray as a non-lethal weapon to stop aggressive, knife-swinging persons and biting dogs. The topic of this article are its predecessors, the German so-called ‘Apparent Death’ (in ...
Affect in Fandom
(2025)
This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis ...
Economy Studies
(2022)
"The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety ...
Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China
(2021)
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy ...
Turbulence
(2014)
The ever tighter coupling of our food, water and energy systems, in the context of a changing climate is leading to increasing turbulence in the world. As a consequence, it becomes ever more crucial to develop cities, ...
Machseh Lajesoumim
(2021)
"The Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of 8 such care homes to open its doors in The Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadequate building in Leiden’s ...
Social Movements and the Politics of Debt
(2022)
It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves ...
The Data Journalism Handbook
(2021)
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of ...
De filosofie van Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977)
(2025)
Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a renowned philosopher and legal scholar, has been regarded as one of the most original philosophers the Netherlands has ever produced. In 1935, he published his seminal work, A New Critique ...
Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities
(2025)
What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume ...
Making the Palace Machine Work
(2021)
This volume brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and ...
Unpopular Culture
(2016-10-14)
This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a third term that operates ...
Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
(2020)
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the ...
Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek = Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics
(2023)
This volume focusses on the role of art, culture and politics in transitions and the struggle for social justice. Sometimes these transitions are traumatic and violent processes as in the case of post-apartheid South Africa. ...
Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750
(2021)
"This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. ...
Performing Girls and Women
(2025)
This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, ...
China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism
(2021)
This book uses the notion of "Chinese exceptionalism" as a framework to analyze China's international politics and foreign policy. It argues that China's approach to international relations is best understood in the context ...
The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe
(2021)
The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the ...