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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 ...
Chapter Caught in a flash, arrested at a standstill
(2023)
This article seeks to articulate in one image the diverse genocides in German history, an image able to capture the piling wreckages of history in a flash. The point of departure is a multimedia installation by William ...
Chapter Revolt: The sense and non-sense of Kristeva
(2023)
Revolt, for Julia Kristeva, is not as a singular socio-political moment of breaking away, but as Rosemarie Buikema puts it, “a process of movement and repetition” (Buikema, 2020, 6), “a reversal, a relocation, a transformation, ...
Chapter Reading to reveal the world
(2023)
Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary ...
Chapter Unfolding patterns of revolt
(2023)
This article deals with art, fashion design, and cultural practice as both critique and creativity. It analyses artworks by William Kentridge, Sue Austin, and Lina Iris Viktor, as well as the fashion of Viktor & Rolf, ...
Urban Movements and Climate Change
(2023)
From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate ...
Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand
(2023)
Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary ...
The Anthology in Digital Culture
(2023)
As a cultural form, media practice and organizational model, the anthology has represented an important editorial framework in the development, preservation and retrieval of narratives, from paper-based media to machine-generated ...
De Nederlandse zeeschilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw
(2024)
Marine painting, paintings of ships and the sea, is a four hundred year old traditional Dutch art discipline. In the nineteenth century the genre had a special artistic prestige and status. This study explores the background, ...
Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan
(2024)
Hobbes, Leviathan, Virtue, Rhetoric, Sovereignty
Videogame Formalism
(2024)
game studies, formalism, game analysis, aesthetic theory of games
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling
(2023)
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media ...
Chapter Child-directed speech in catechisms for the religious education of children under the age of three in early modern Germany and the Dutch Republic
(2022)
This article presents three early catechisms for the religious education of
children under the age of three, printed in Germany and the Netherlands.
Two of them were best- and long sellers on the book market, while one ...
The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe
(2022)
Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas ...
World History for International Studies
(2022)
Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes, World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians ...
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World
(2022)
Georg Marggrafe, Colonial Dutch Brazil, Early Modern Science, Astronomy, 17th century
Herscheppen
(2022)
Imitating models was the main early modern poetical principle. This study discusses Dutch novelistic prose translated from three European bestsellers: François de Bellesforest’s Histoires Tragiques (translation 1612), John ...
Geven in Nederland 2022
(2022)
Giving in the Netherlands provides the macro-economic estimates of philanthropy by households, bequests, foundations, corporations and lotteries. The Center for Philanthropic Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has ...
Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe
(2022)
The project of European integration has undergone a succession of shocks, beginning with the Eurozone crisis, followed by reactions to the sudden growth of irregular migration, and, most recently, the Coronavirus pandemic. ...
Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome
(2022)
In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different people during the ensuing ...
The Frisian Popular Militias between 1480 and 1560
(2022)
In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because ...
Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire
(2017)
This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external 'barbarian' groups in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the fourth ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2022)
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, ...
100 Ideeën voor Caribische regelgevers
(2022)
This book fits into the (limited in scope) Dutch tradition of university research and publications on 'good lawmaking'. It takes into account the specific needs and possibilities of 'small island countries' with a limited ...
Syntax of Hungarian
(2017)
These books aim 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, as ...
Chapter De complete clitoris
(2022)
Although in recent years more and more attention has been paid to the clitoris,
often little attention to the attitude towards her existence in the past.
This article takes a look at the clitter's history and focuses on ...
Chapter ‘Oude drucken … welcke alle … ghesien ende gehanteert zijn’’
(2022)
The present article is the result of the ongoing research of the project ‘The
Dynamics of the Classical Reformed Liturgy in the Netherlands: Its Texts
and their History’. This Liturgy is recorded in numerous psalm books ...
Chapter Feestneuzen, of bij de neus genomen?
(2022)
This article investigates ‘nose books’ (neusboekjes) and their social functions
in the Early Modern Low Countries. Nose books are short literary texts written
in the form of joyful ordinances that can be found in bound ...
Chapter Kunst in dienst van het eerste leesonderwijs
(2022)
In 1906, a new primer was published in the German city of Bremen: The Bremer
Fibel. Its illustrations were created by Cornelis Jetses (1873-1955) one of the bestknown
illustrators of teaching material in the Netherlands, ...
Chapter Did Peter van Selow (1582-1650) have Dutch roots?
(2022)
Previous attempts to describe the life of Peter van Selow, one of the more
important type founders and printers in Sweden during the first half of the
seventeenth century, have suffered from serious deficiencies: we knew ...
Chapter Als het met het onderwijs goed gaat, gaat het met ons ook goed
(2022)
This contribution consists of two interviews with experts from the Dutch educational
publishing field. The first interviewee, Rivka Mooren, works as project
editor Higher Education at Pearson Benelux. She explains how ...
Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis/Yearbook for Dutch Book History 29/2022
(2022)
Yearbook for Dutch Book History, Volume 29/2022
Education and Pedagogy
The Yearbook for Dutch Book History publishes articles in the Dutch and English language on all aspects of the book history of the Low Countries.
The ...
Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
(2022)
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of ...
Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation
(2023)
This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how ...
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, ...
Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands
(2023)
This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell ...
The Maritime Silk Road
(2022)
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which ...
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
(2018)
The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals ...
Cycling Pathways
(2022)
In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Netherlands became the ...