Publications
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Dynamism in Islamic Activism
(2006)
The increased tensions surrounding radical Muslims and radical movements in the political Islam are not only manifested in the Western countries but also in the Muslim world itself. Tendencies and political movements that ...
Lustige geesten
(2009)
Dutch literature; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de eenentwintigste eeuw
(2016)
Het boek A Dutch Miracle van J. Visser en A. Hemerijck uit 1997 analyseerde de rol van onderhandelingen, coördinatie en consensus in het Nederlandse Poldermodel en stelde vast dat het cruciale factoren zijn geweest in het ...
Care at a Distance
(2012)
This widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare. Combining detailed ethnographic studies of nurses ...
Audiovisions
(1999)
The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision -the ...
Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market
(2012)
To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies ...
National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities
(2011)
Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by ...
Open Content Licensing
(2011)
Although open content licences only account for a fraction of all copyright licences currently in force in the copyright world, the mentality change initated by the open content movement is here to stay. To promote the use ...
Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent
(2011)
Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at ...
Bewijzen van goede dienstverlening
(2004)
Political Science
Chapter Nogmaals kijken naar de pijn van anderen, of: de uitdaging van ‘wij ’
(2023)
This essay takes its point of departure in images of the victims of the 2023 Turkish-Syrian earthquake. It examines their rhetoric, comparing them to those of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who washed ashore on a Turkish ...
Media Policy for the Digital Age
(2005)
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector ...
Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
(2019)
Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese ...
Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe
(2010)
This volume is a study of identity processes and identity dynamics in a post-colonial, multiethnic European context that is constantly changing under the pressures of globalisation, migration movements and integration. The ...
Transit Migration in Europe
(2014)
Transit migration is a term that is used to describe mixed flows of different types of temporary migrants, including refugees and labor migrants. In the popular press, it is often confused with illegal or irregular migration ...
Speelruimte voor transparantere rechtspraak
(2013)
Law
Euthanasie
(2004)
Law
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
(2002)
This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of ...
Physical Safety
(2012)
Physical safety is a core task of government. It is neither surprising nor unreasonable for government to be held accountable for hazardous substances, for food safety, for flood protection, for the spread of infectious ...
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination
(2007)
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers' drawings, film stills and archival ...