Publications
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Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged
(2015)
In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of ...
Fabels van liefde
(2012)
Dutch literature - Flemish literature; History
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
(2024)
This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the ...
The Work of Authorship
(2014)
Technological and economic concerns have long been the drivers of debate about copyright. But diverse disciplines in the humanities - including literary studies, aesthetics, film studies, and the philosophy of art - have ...
The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism
(2014)
Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth ...
Chapter Caught in a flash, arrested at a standstill
(2023)
This article seeks to articulate in one image the diverse genocides in German history, an image able to capture the piling wreckages of history in a flash. The point of departure is a multimedia installation by William ...
Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks
(2018)
Zeolites are natural or synthetic materials with porous chemical structures that are valuable due to their absorptive and catalytic qualities. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are manmade organometallic polymers with similar ...
A New Dawn for the Second Sex
(2017)
To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important ...
Soul of the Documentary. Framing, Expression, Ethics
(2015)
‘Soul of the Documentary’ offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already ...
Seeing the City Digitally
(2022)
This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many ...
Film Festivals
(2007)
Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world's most famous festivals - Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam - Film Festivals tells the story of a phenomenon that ...
Emerging Socialities in 21st Century Healthcare
(2017)
The landscape of health care is changing rapidly, both on an organizational and a technological level. This book gathers medical anthropologists to examine the ways that both patients and health care workers are being ...
Animal Rights Activism
(2017)
We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Kerstin Jacobsson and Jonas Lindblom use the animal rights movement in ...
The Dutch National Research Agenda in Perspective
(2017)
The Dutch National Research Agenda is a set of national priorities that are set by scientists working in conjunction with corporations, civil society organisations, and interested citizens. The agenda consolidates the ...
Imagining Global Amsterdam
(2012)
Imagining Global Amsterdam brings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. ...
Chapter Feestneuzen, of bij de neus genomen?
(2022)
This article investigates ‘nose books’ (neusboekjes) and their social functions
in the Early Modern Low Countries. Nose books are short literary texts written
in the form of joyful ordinances that can be found in bound ...
Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society
(2024)
The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Universities are redirecting ...
Chapter Ondergronds erfgoed
(2024)
The Cold War was a tense time. The Netherlands took precautions to protect its people from potential disasters, in particular nuclear threats. One crucial aspect of this was the establishment of the Civil Defence Corps. ...
Secularism or Democracy?
(2007)
Established institutions and policies of dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states are increasingly under pressure. Practical politics and political theory is caught in a trap between a fully secularized ...
After the Break
(2013)
Television as we knew it is irrevocably changing. Some are gleefully announcing the death of television, others have been less sanguine but insist that television is radically changing underneath our eyes. Several excellent ...
City in Sight
(2009)
Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, ...
The Place of Play
(2009)
Increasingly, technology is at stake in toys, games and playing. With the immense popularity of computer games, questions concerning the role and function of technology in play have become more pressing. A key aspect of ...
iGovernment
(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 ...
Working for Policy
(2010)
There are now many people involved in 'making policy', but there is not a great deal written about how they do it. Most of the books on policy tend to refer obliquely, if at all, to the actual practice of policy work, and ...
De regulering van media in internationaal perspectief - 6
(2005)
Media Studies
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, ...
Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java
(2015)
Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial ...
Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia
(2009)
Most literature on the economic crisis in indonesia has focused on the negative macro-economic impacts during the "crisis- years" of 1997-99. The case studies presented in this book take a different perspective. With a ...
European Coasts of Bohemia
(2012)
The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal attracted a great deal of attention throughout the twentieth century. Its promoters, The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, attracted a great deal of attention throughout the twentieth century and defined ...
Chapter As in trans art
(2023)
This article engages with trans artistic practices: both trans in art as well as trans as art. It takes as its point of departure the artistic work of Ro Robertson, Tama Sharman, and Erica Rutherford, each of whom works ...
De slimme gemeente nader beschouwd
(2011)
Public administration; Political Science
Chapter Doopsgezinden en slavernij – Privé profijt en publiek protest II – Bestrijders
(2024)
Despite the substantial number of Doopsgezind shareholders and investors in the slavery economy of the 17th- and 18th-centuries, as the previous article demonstrates, it could not be established that there were among them ...
The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections
(2021)
Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and ...
Dertig jaar privatisering, verzelfstandiging en marktwerking
(2012)
This publication provides an overview of the last thirty years of Dutch policy and policy thinking in the area of privatization and market forces.
Healing en 'alternatief' genezen
(2017)
Voor het eerst is er nu een neutraal boek over alternatief genezen dat het fenomeen niet de lucht in prijst, noch verketterd, maar de waarde en betekenis ervan voor de moderne samenleving verkent en de kwesties eromheen uitlegt.
Chapter Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics: An Introduction
(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. ...
Rescued by Europe?
(2004)
As a result of its political and economic turmoil for much of the postwar period, Italy was considered the "bad seed" in the European community. Harsh ideological divisions, chronic executive instability, inefficient ...
Chapter Professionele Haarlemse doopsgezinde netwerken in de aanloop naar en tijdens de tulpenmanie
(2024)
During the Tulipmania from 1633 until 1637, the bloemisten used their preexisting professional networks to trade tulips with one another. This was no exception for the Mennonite bloemisten from Haarlem, such as Jacques de ...
De hand van Huizinga
(2009)
This book contains a unique new selection of his most important essays from the extensive oeuvre of the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. These essays and studies have been chosen on the basis of the different subject matter ...
De obesogene samenleving
(2007)
Public administration; Sociology