Publications
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Realist Cinema as World Cinema
(2020)
"Lúcia Nagib redefines realism not as a mere question of rhetoric or style, or a product of a certain age and place, but as a deep and steadfast commitment of filmmakers to an "ethics of the real" based on various forms ...
Mobile Mapping
(2020)
This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature ...
Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985
(2020)
God's diplomat, the pope of the ecumenical movement, but also an acerbic theologian and a difficult person: this is how journalists characterised Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft (1900-1985). He was one of the best-known Dutch ...
From the Manpower Revolution to the Activation Paradigm
(2011)
This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe, while paying close attention to the oeCD and the European Union as proliferators of new ideas. Three phases are identified: (a) a ...
Beyond Dutch Borders
(2010)
Despite widespread scepticism in receiving societies, migrants often remain loyal to their former homeland and stay active in the politics there. Beyond Dutch Borders is about such ties. Combining extensive fieldwork with ...
Attached to the World
(2011)
Also available in Dutch "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789089643018">Aan het buitenland gehecht Few other countries are so interrelated with the world around us in political, economic, and social ...
Towards Marine Ecosystem-based Management in the Wider Caribbean
(2011)
An approach that encompasses the human and natural dimensions of ecosystems is one that the Wider Caribbean Region knows it must adopt and implement, in order to ensure the sustainable use of the region's shared marine ...
Postcolonial Netherlands
(2011)
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in Dutch language and culture as well ...
Perfect Worlds
(2011)
Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses finally the rise of dystopian writing – a negative expression of ...
Framing Immigrant Integration
(2011)
Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like to call 'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common ground. In the Netherlands, their symbiosis ...
Ecstatic Encounters
(2011)
Ecstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomblé temples in Bahia, Brazil, where - for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each ...
Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies
(2011)
Globally, policymakers and scientists are increasingly recognizing that close direct and indirect interaction between multinationals and local businesses is essential if foreign investment is to have a profound, lasting ...
The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries
(2011)
The literature on changing varieties of capitalism concentrates on the big economies, particularly the US, Japan and Germany. This important volume sheds light on the group of smaller European countries that share a high ...
Singapore in Global History
(2011)
This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary ...
Odd Couples
(2011)
The concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman was fundamentally challenged by the introduction of registered partnership in Denmark in 1989. "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789052603810">Odd ...
New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema
(2011)
In the 1970s, especially after Franco’s death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters ...
In Medias Res
(2011)
Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany’s most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, ...
The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology
(2006)
The Lebanese Shi'ite resistance movement, Hizbullah, is going through a remarkable political and ideological transformation. Hizbullah was founded in 1978 by various sectors of Lebanese Shi'ite clergy and cadres, and with ...
Mapping Intermediality in Performance
(2010)
This volume examines afresh the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies. It is concerned with how digital culture combines the traditional ‘liveness’ of theatre with media interfaces and internet protocols. ...
The Asia-Europe Meeting: Contributing to a New Global Governance Architecture
(2011)
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process was designed in 1996 to bring Asia and Europe closer together. This important collection brings together the discussions from the eighth ASEM Summit held in October 2010 in Brussels. ...
The Russian Second Generation in Tallinn and Kohtla-Järve
(2011)
Second-generation Russians face two major integration challenges in the Estonian cities of Tallinn and Kohtla-Järve. They are segregated from an Estonian language society whose historical background lies in the policies ...
The Transformation of Solidarity
(2012)
This study investigates the consequences of processes of social individualisation and economic globalisation for welfare state solidarity. Solidarity is defined as the willingness to share risks. The institutions of the ...
Hoe mensen keuzes maken
(2010)
Psychology; Public administration
Privacy en vormen van 'intelligente' mobiliteit
(2011)
Public administration; Political science
Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam
(2011)
The contributors analyse the mutual impact of colonial and postcolonial governance on the development, organisation and mobilisation of Islam paying special attention to the ongoing battles over the codification of Islamic ...
iGovernment
(2011)
How does the use of ict affect the relationship between government and its citizens? This book analyses the developments of networking information and concludes that in everyday practice an iGovernment has gradually come ...
Foggy Social Structures
(2011)
Irregular migration systems are giving way to an undocumented population in Europe that is estimated at some millions. The migrants manage to live and work for years without a certified identity yet within 'foggy' social ...
De staat van informatie
(2011)
Public administration; Political science
Het gezicht van de publieke zaak
(2010)
Public administration; Political science
Diaspora and Transnationalism
(2010)
Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings ...
South Asian Partition Fiction in English
(2010)
South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh explores a significant cross-section of South Asian fiction in English written on the theme of Partition from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, ...
Monitor Racisme & Extremisme
(2010)
Public administration; Sociology
Voor vorst en stad
(2010)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Dutch and Flemish literature
A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?
(2010)
This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be ...
Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe
(2010)
This volume is a study of identity processes and identity dynamics in a post-colonial, multiethnic European context that is constantly changing under the pressures of globalisation, migration movements and integration. The ...
European Development Cooperation
(2010)
Official Development Assistance, or foreign aid, disbursed by the EU member states reached record levels in 2008, when several member states raised their assistance considerably, while some of the new member states became ...
The Local Dimension of Migration Policymaking
(2010)
This book prompts a fresh look on immigrant integration policy. Revealing just where immigrants and their receiving societies interact everyday, it shows how societal inclusion is administered and produced at a local level. ...
Asian Literary Voices
(2010)
Brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, emphasising East Asia yet extending to South Asia Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of ...
Fassbinder's Germany
(1996)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a ...
American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia
(2002)
The authors of this book challenge the view that was current among many people in the Netherlands during the period 1945-1949 that the American government and its foreign policymakers unequivocally backed the Indonesian ...