Publications
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Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century
(2016-08-01)
In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned ...
Het minderhedenbeleid voorbij
(2013)
Government; Sociology
Bewijzen van goede dienstverlening
(2004)
Political Science
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750
(2024)
This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits ...
The Dutch Polder Model in science and research
(2017)
Scientific research in the Netherlands is doing remarkably well. Dutch researchers, universities and institutes reside at or near the top of international rankings. In this essay, José van Dijck and Wim van Saarloos, the ...
Late-career Risks in Changing Welfare States
(2015)
Motivated by debates about welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book takes a closer look at the situation of older workers in Germany and the US. It first provides an in-depth account of country ...
The Public Core of the Internet: An international Agenda for Internet Governance
(2016)
The growth and health of our digital economies and societies depend on the core protocols and infrastructure of the Internet. This technical and logical substructure of our digital existence is now in need of protection ...
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 ...
Globalisation, Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Contemporary Greece
(2006)
This empirical study examines issues surrounding the integration of immigrants in Greece, in particular in Thessaloniki, as well as looking at migrants in neighbouring countries, Albania and Bulgaria. The book suggests ...
Cinephilia
(2005)
This anthology explores new periods, practices and definitions of what it means to love the cinema. The essays demonstrate that beyond individualist immersion in film, typical of the cinephilia as it was popular from the ...
Policy, People, and the New Professional
(2006)
Engaging with the acclaimed American sociologist Eliot Freidson's argument about professionalism's 'third logic' (a viable alternative to bureaucracy and consumerism), Dutch, British, French and German contributors to this ...
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 ...
Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood
(2005)
Ernst Lubitsch, the German film director who left Berlin for Hollywood in 1923, is best remembered for the famous "Lubitsch touch" in such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise and Ninotchka, featuring Greta Garbo. Kristin ...
De cirkel van goede intenties
(2005)
Sociology
Crossing the Line
(2006)
For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal hazing in an elaborate ceremony at sea called 'crossing the line' (British-American) and 'Neptunusfeest' (Dutch). Typically ...
Investeren in werkzekerheid
(2007)
Public administration; Political science; Sociology
This Cannot Happen Here
(2013)
In this book Ben Braber answers the question how the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the second world war. This study highlights the ...
Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise
(2006)
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger ...
Media Policy for the Digital Age
(2005)
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector ...