Publications
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Chapter 1 De toekomst van de sociale (on)zekerheid
(2016)
Lang ging het debat over de toekomst van de sociale zekerheid vooral over de vraag wat er aan technische aanpassingen aan het stelsel aangebracht
moeten worden. Inmiddels dienen zich twee fundamentelere vragen
aan. ...
Chapter Het VOC-verleden van Cornelis Pronk en Thomas Hope – Chinees porselein en Sri Lankaans roofgoed als stille getuigen
(2024)
This article deals with two objects of art and history. They are considered here as silent witnesses of the VOC antecedents of two Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam: Cornelis Pronk and Thomas Hope. They were employed by the ...
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy
(2002)
Pottery made in the aegean during the Late Bronze Age has been found widely distributed in many parts of the Mediterranean. At some four hundred sites outside Greece, Mycenaean dinner and storage vessels, as well as some ...
Braving Troubled Waters
(2009)
Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fishermen of the Dutch island ...
International Migration in Europe
(2008)
Over the past twenty years international migration issues have gained a growing importance in public debate in most of the European countries. Public opinions are more and more concerned about the arrival of new immigrants ...
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
(2007)
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This ...
The Company that Changed Itself
(2007)
The role of industrial research in the development of the company that sponsors it is an essential question. This book takes up this question in an historical perspective with a case study of the Dutch chemical company ...
The Company that Changed Itself
(2007)
The role of industrial research in the development of the company that sponsors it is an essential question. This book takes up this question in an historical perspective with a case study of the Dutch chemical company ...
Onzekere veiligheid
(2008)
New technologies, climate change, infectious diseases and major crises like the BSE-affair make us realize that our knowledge of risks threatening our society is very limited. The shaping of the responsibilities of our ...
Landscape Biographies
(2014)
Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which ...
Ethiek van DNA tot 9/11
(2005)
Are there limits to cultural diversity? Does an animal have rights? Do we overlook the implications of stem cell technology? Do the public media have their own accountability? Does sport go together with gene therapy? Is ...
Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China
(2019)
With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from Ÿmade in ChinaŒ to Ÿcreated in ChinaŒ. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and Ÿsoft power,Œ creativity has become part of the new China ...
Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
(2018)
From user generated images of street protests in Istanbul and Hong Kong, to professional architectural renderings of future streets, to GPS-tracked walks in London and Amsterdam, and the visualisation of Sydney's urban ...
Seeing the City
(2020)
The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- ...
World of Difference
(2017)
Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better ...
Chapter Het VOC-verleden van Cornelis Pronk en Thomas Hope – Chinees porselein en Sri Lankaans roofgoed als stille getuigen
(2024)
This article deals with two objects of art and history. They are considered here as silent witnesses of the VOC antecedents of two Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam: Cornelis Pronk and Thomas Hope. They were employed by the ...
Synode over gewetensvrijheid
(2008)
This book (A Conclave on the Freedom of Conscience) is an account of a fictitious dialogue on religion. Coornhert depicts representatives from the various religious camps whom he sometimes cites literally (including Beza, ...
The Crisis Imperative
(2005)
The Netherlands and Belgium exemplified the pathology of 'welfare without work' that characterized continental welfare states - until a political crisis in both countries produced a surprising divergence in scope and extent ...
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy
(2002)
Pottery made in the aegean during the Late Bronze Age has been found widely distributed in many parts of the Mediterranean. At some four hundred sites outside Greece, Mycenaean dinner and storage vessels, as well as some ...
Postcolonial Netherlands
(2011)
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in Dutch language and culture as well ...