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 ...