Publications
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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