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Militant Jihadism
(2019)
"Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial ...
Protagonists of War
(2021)
Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in ...
Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism
(2014-05-22)
Innovative research of 'Islam at work' in geographical and social contexts. 'Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism' presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the ...
Alles verandert altijd - Herziene editie
(2024)
"Alles verandert altijd" is een onmisbaar instrument voor de literair vertaler in opleiding en de beginnende en gevorderde professional bij het vertalen in en uit het Nederlands. Het behandelt helder en bevattelijk de ...
The Global Horizon
(2021)
Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This ...
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
(2022)
Practices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others ...
Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an
(2024)
Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts.
Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change, interpretation, and ...
Chapter 13 Digital Humanities and GIS for Chinese Architecture
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
As German as Kafka
(2019)
Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of ...
Financing Quality Education for All
(2019)
In OECD countries the average expenditure on primary and secondary education institutions is about 3.5% of GDP. The investment in education has large implications for economic development and the proper functioning of ...
Chapter 9 Pixels or Parcels? Parcel-Based Historical GIS and Digital Thematic Deconstruction as Tools for Studying Urban Development
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Translation Policies in Legal and Institutional Settings
(2021)
This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from several parts of the world, it ...
Chapter 6 Photography, Railways and Landscape in Transylvania , Romania
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Powers of Divergence
(2018)
"Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance
What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation ...
A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War
(2009-08-05)
This monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium’s monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium’s financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, ...
A Dark Trace
(2021)
Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The ...
Forest Urbanisms
(2024)
How forest urbanism can address the contemporary socio-ecological crisis. A radical redefinition of how humanity occupies the earth — through forests, agriculture, and settlement — and rearticulates environmental stewardship ...
Homo Mimeticus
(2022)
Genealogy of one of the most ancient and
influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an ...
Building a White Nation
(2023)
A unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.
Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly ...
Handbook for Ethiopian Public Administration Program Accreditation
(2022)
Improving, assuring, and maintaining the quality and relevance of education and training in Public Administration has attracted increasing attention among PA scholars and practitioners worldwide.
The Handbook for Ethiopian ...
Moral Seascapes
(2024)
New framework for the aesthetic representation of the sea.
We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe ...
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive
(2022)
The colonial past through objects of sound
The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded ...
Modern Etruscans
(2023)
New insights on the reception of Etruscan antiquity in the modernist period.
“L’Étrurie est à la mode”, French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria ...
Mapping Landscapes in Transformation
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Strategic Imaginations
(2020)
What is the gender of political power ? What happens to the history of sovereignty when we reconsider it from a gender perspective ?
Political sovereignty has been a major theme in European thought from the very beginning ...
Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage
(2023)
Perspectives and practices of couples in unconventional Muslim marriages.
Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, ...
Leaving Spain
(2022)
Since the beginning of the economic crisis of 2008, Spain, like other southern European countries, has witnessed a mass departure of mostly young people looking for opportunities abroad. Leaving Spain is based on 58 ...
Islamic Glass in the Making
(2022)
The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent ...
Chapter 11 Mapping Through Space and Time
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Performing Hysteria
(2020)
"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender ...
Chapter 3 Mapping and Design as Interrelated Processes
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Stilte in de klas
(2022)
Silence runs like a thread through the history of the school. In past centuries, countless teachers have urged children to be quiet. There have also been many publications in which educational authors have reflected on the ...
Essays on Plato’s Epistemology
(2016-03-21)
Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. ...
Tot de bodem
(2023)
Een progressief voorstel voor het landbouwbeleid van morgen
De vurige debatten rond de stikstofproblematiek, de droogte, het biodiversiteitsverlies, de seizoensarbeid en de overmatige vleesproductie en -consumptie hebben ...
Chapter 7 Mapping Archaeological Landscapes in Transformation
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter Postface Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transformation
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
(2020)
Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been ...
The Hybrid Practitioner
(2022)
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of ...
The Hybrid Practitioner
(2022)
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of ...
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
(2023)
The first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the ...
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
(2023)
The first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the ...
Chapter 12 Landscape Appreciation in the English Lake District
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 12 Landscape Appreciation in the English Lake District
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces
(2021)
Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European ...
Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces
(2021)
Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European ...
New Multicultural Identities in Europe
(2014-01-30)
How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic ...
New Multicultural Identities in Europe
(2014-01-30)
How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic ...
Watching, Waiting
(2023)
First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of Covid-19, the subject of ‘empty places’ has gained renewed topicality and resonance. Watching, Waiting presents a collection of ...
Watching, Waiting
(2023)
First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of Covid-19, the subject of ‘empty places’ has gained renewed topicality and resonance. Watching, Waiting presents a collection of ...
Beyond Provenance
(2018)
"Human intentionality in chemical patterns in Bronze Age metals
For the last 180 years, scientists have been attempting to determine the ‘provenance’ (geological source) of the copper used in Bronze Age artefacts. ...
Beyond Provenance
(2018)
"Human intentionality in chemical patterns in Bronze Age metals
For the last 180 years, scientists have been attempting to determine the ‘provenance’ (geological source) of the copper used in Bronze Age artefacts. ...
Arrival Cities
(2020)
Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, ...
Arrival Cities
(2020)
Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, ...
Revival After the Great War
(2020)
In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' ...
Revival After the Great War
(2020)
In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' ...
Public Administration in Ethiopia
(2020)
"Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development. This first handbook on ...
Performing by the Book?
(2024)
The challenges and limits for musicians dealing with texts. To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of ...
Performing by the Book?
(2024)
The challenges and limits for musicians dealing with texts. To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of ...
Christian Masculinity
(2021)
"In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with ...
Contact Zones
(2021)
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, ...
Contact Zones
(2021)
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, ...
Portraits and Poses
(2022)
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses ...
Portraits and Poses
(2022)
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses ...
Brokers of Modernity
(2019)
"The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe.
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the ...
Chapter 4 Mapping the Evolution of Designed Landscapes with GIS
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 10 The Secularisation of Urban Space
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 9 Pixels or Parcels? Parcel-Based Historical GIS and Digital Thematic Deconstruction as Tools for Studying Urban Development
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain
(2022)
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023
With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese ...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
(2022)
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her ...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
(2022)
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her ...
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
(2023)
Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West.
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen ...
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
(2023)
Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West.
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen ...
Europees burgerschap in de klas
(2022)
The impact of the EU on everyday life is huge, but not always visible. Educating young people to become informed and empowered EU citizens requires a strategy of active learning to prepare them for civic responsibility and ...
Europees burgerschap in de klas
(2022)
The impact of the EU on everyday life is huge, but not always visible. Educating young people to become informed and empowered EU citizens requires a strategy of active learning to prepare them for civic responsibility and ...
Chapter 13 Digital Humanities and GIS for Chinese Architecture
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an
(2024)
Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts.
Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change, interpretation, and ...
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
(2022)
Ancient glass beads as a window to the ancient world
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated ...
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
(2020)
Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been ...
Militant Jihadism
(2019)
"Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial ...
Making Home(s) in Displacement
(2022)
'Making Home(s) in Displacement' critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how ...
Chapter 6 Photography, Railways and Landscape in Transylvania , Romania
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Making Home(s) in Displacement
(2022)
'Making Home(s) in Displacement' critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how ...
Images of Immigrants and Refugees in Western Europe
(2019)
"The topic of migration has become particularly contentious in national and international debates. Media have a discernable impact on overall societal attitudes towards this phenomenon. Polls show time and again that ...
Chapter 8 A High-Resolution Multi-Scalar Approach for Micro-Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transition
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Chapter 8 A High-Resolution Multi-Scalar Approach for Micro-Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transition
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Financing Quality Education for All
(2019)
In OECD countries the average expenditure on primary and secondary education institutions is about 3.5% of GDP. The investment in education has large implications for economic development and the proper functioning of ...
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
(2020)
Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been ...
Congoville
(2021)
One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories ...
Chapter Frontmatter
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe
(2012-07-13)
Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this ‘thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate ...
Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe
(2012-07-13)
Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this ‘thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate ...
Chapter 2 Data Friction
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Images of Immigrants and Refugees in Western Europe
(2019)
"The topic of migration has become particularly contentious in national and international debates. Media have a discernable impact on overall societal attitudes towards this phenomenon. Polls show time and again that ...
Chapter 1 Cartographic Grounds
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Working Through Colonial Collections
(2022)
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections
What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department ...
Islamic Glass in the Making
(2022)
The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent ...
Performing Hysteria
(2020)
"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender ...
Chapter 11 Mapping Through Space and Time
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Jaume Plensa. The Four Elements
(2024)
Special edition on the first permanent sculpture by Jaume Plensa in Belgian public space.
Acclaimed Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver Jaume Plensa is renowned for his ability to weave spirituality, ...
Tot de bodem
(2023)
Een progressief voorstel voor het landbouwbeleid van morgen
De vurige debatten rond de stikstofproblematiek, de droogte, het biodiversiteitsverlies, de seizoensarbeid en de overmatige vleesproductie en -consumptie hebben ...