Publications
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World Building
(2017-09-13)
This edited collection of original essays situates itself at the cutting edge of media theory, exploring imaginary worlds as forms of knowledge and forms of life. By exploring the concept of worlds from theoretical and ...
Beyond the Pale
(2022)
On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted ...
Shaping Film Festivals In a Changing World
(2025)
This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities ...
Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850)
(2020)
Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the early modern period or ...
Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope
(2023)
Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological ...
Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia
(2015-06-01)
This volume brings together a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to address crucial questions of migration flows and integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Comparative analysis of the three ...
The Dutch and English East India Companies
(2018-10-02)
A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.
The ...
River Cities in Asia
(2022)
River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, ...
Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation around the World
(2025)
Sex work is often called the oldest profession in the world. It manifests itself in a plethora of forms. A move to private locations is now taking place: contacts are established via the Internet and meetings take place ...
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia
(2019)
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast ...
Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist
(2018)
How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, ...
Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
(2024)
This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2025)
Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, ...
May ’68
(2018)
Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralysing ...
Notions of Privacy at Early Modern European Courts
(2024)
Grand, extravagant, magnificent, scandalous, corrupt, political, personal, fractious; these are terms often associated with the medieval and early modern courts. Moreover, the court constituted a forceful nexus in the ...
The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language
(2020)
The General Data Protection Regulation in Plain Language is a guide for anyone interested in the much-discussed rules of the GDPR. In this legislation, which came into force in 2018, the European Union meticulously describes ...
Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
(2025)
With the inclusion of twelve original articles by established and emerging international scholars, this volume offers critical reading of literary and cinematic texts produced in China and Sinophone communities between the ...
Veilig = Safe
(2024)
Safe is the first and only periodical publication in the Netherlands on public safety heritage. This yearbook focuses on the extensive and leading collection of Korpora, Public Safety Heritage, in operation since 1 August ...
Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism
(2024)
For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority ...
The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy
(2025)
Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from the North Sea to ...