Publications
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Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
(2017-11-01)
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in ...
Doing Good or Doing Better
(2009)
The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad ...
Looking for Loopholes
(2003)
Looking for Loopholes, Processes of incorporation of illegal immigrants in the Netherlands offers a detailed account of how illegal immigrants, who are legally excluded, manage to incorporate into Dutch society. By combining ...
Verlichte verhalen
(2023)
By describing their present as ‘enlightened’, eighteenth-century intellectuals inevitably altered their relationship to the past. In search of an explanation for this Enlightenment, eighteenth-century authors created a ...
Chapter ‘Het is altijd een herinnering aan de watersnoodramp’
(2024)
This article contains the personal account of Sergeant Reinder van de Put of the national police force, based on his correspondence after he was sent to the area affected by the 1953 North Sea flood. It first focuses on ...
Social Concertation in Times of Austerity
(2013)
Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation ...
A Pregnant Past: The Dutch Seventeenth Century in the Global Twenty-first
(2015)
Seventh Golden Age Lecture on the Dutch seventeenth century in the global twenty-first
Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, ...
Chapter ‘Is it possible to represent her freshly without reproducing sexist and racist appropriation?’
(2023)
When black South African artist Willie Bester, whose art persistently criticizes the colonial and totalitarian history of his country, created a sculpture of Sarah Bartmann (or Saartjie Bartmann) out of recycled material, ...
Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives
(2013)
This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the ...
Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies
(2007)
Based on the strengths of combined ideas from migration researchers, policy experts, and representatives of international organisations, this timely volume provides eight basic principles for the design of innovative ...
Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies
(2007)
Based on the strengths of combined ideas from migration researchers, policy experts, and representatives of international organisations, this timely volume provides eight basic principles for the design of innovative ...
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities
(2012)
This book is a collection of ethnographies of transnational migration and border crossings in Asia. Interdisciplinary in scope, it addresses issues of mobility and Diaspora from various vantage points. Unique to this volume ...
Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, ...
De letteren als wetenschappen
(2005)
Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Philosophy
Mapping Intermediality in Performance
(2010)
This volume examines afresh the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies. It is concerned with how digital culture combines the traditional ‘liveness’ of theatre with media interfaces and internet protocols. ...
Asclepius
(2024)
Throughout antiquity patients sought relief and healing from their afflictions in the sanctuaries of Asclepius, the God of healing. The Asclepian healing cult included sacrifices, ablutions and incubation. In their dreams, ...
Breaking Down Anonymity
(2009)
Because borders alone cannot stop irregular migration, the European Union is turning more and more to internal control measures. Through surveillance, member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, ...
Rediscovering Europe in the Netherlands
(2007)
The results of the 2005 referendum on the Constitutional Treaty for Europe exposed dramatically the rift between the political and public opinion regarding European policymaking. It also showed that politicians had failed ...
Chapter Scholarly feminists
(2023)
In this article we reflect on our longstanding work within a powerful European network of feminist scholars. Here we consider how we have collaboratively created and sustained embodied infrastructures of care in building ...