Publications
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Frans Hals
(2024)
Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His portraits are admired for their virtuoso brushwork and their seemingly spontaneous character. This volume, ...
Leven voor een leer
(2025)
In September 1945, Anna Terruwe opened a private psychiatric practice in Nijmegen. She soon came into conflict with church authorities over the moral accountability of Catholics suffering from mental health issues. The ...
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 ...
Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia
(2025)
Communication is at the heart of politics, and certainly in East Asia, where vibrant media systems and cultural industries connect with political processes that range from the democratic to autocratic. If we are to understand ...
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 ...
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 ...
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500
(2025)
This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi – a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its ...
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces
(2025)
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The ...
Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism
(2013)
This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular ...
Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film
(2025)
From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual thinking process manifests itself in essay films. It explores how issues of subjectivity ...
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 ...
Governing the Digital Society
(2025)
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, ...
Affect in Fandom
(2025)
This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis ...
Traditional Tunes and Lived Religion in the Protestant Church on the Central Moluccas, Indonesia
(2025)
In the southeast of Indonesia, on the Moluccas, theologians are developing contextual theologies for the Moluccan Protestant church. The Moluccas were colonized by the Dutch for more than three centuries. As an effort of ...
Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
(2025)
In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the “last generation of elephant doctors.” Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group ...
Enhanced Publications
(2009)
In the digital world of scholarly publishing online access is provided to articles, hyperlinked reference and supplementary data. Connection with social networking, e.g. blogs, relation with other materials, e.g. multimedia, ...
Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia
(2025)
Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term “cultural security” not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms ...
ASML and Dutch Physics
(2025)
In 2014, the global market leader in advanced chipmaking machines ASML joined forces with NWO, AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit to establish a new research institute in the Netherlands: the Advanced ...
Communication Research into the Digital Society
(2024)
Media and communication have become ubiquitous in today’s societies and affect all aspects of life. On an individual level, they impact how we learn about the world, how we entertain ourselves, and how we interact with ...
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected
(2025)
In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.