Bøker i AUP Dissertation Series-serien

Examines images of Amsterdam and Rotterdam from a range of city dwellers, describing their ideal city as they engage in city council debates to gain support, and try to eliminate those with different images

Proefschrift over de beeldtaal en betekenis van het Noord-Nederlands familieportret. Het proefschrift opent met een theoretisch hoofdstuk waarin de methodiek van Aloïs Riegl het uitgangspunt vormt voor de discussie over de kunsthistorische aanpak van de beeldtraditie van het familieportret. De analyse van het beeldmateriaal is de kern van het onderzoek. Laarmann besteedt vooral aandacht aan de algemene kenmerken van het genre familieportret zoals deze naar voren komen uit de bestudering van het omvangrijke materiaal.Vervolgens wordt het onderzoek toegespitst op het oeuvre van met name één kunstenaar, Herman Meindertsz Doncker, die zich in Enkhuizen specialiseerde in familieportretten. Het laatste hoofdstuk is gewijd aan één speciaal familieportret waarvan verschillende aspecten geanalyseerd worden: zowel compositie en motieven in hun beeldtraditie, maar ook de relatie tot de actuele levenssituatie van het voorgestelde gezin worden onderzocht.

A historical inquiry into the ways European cities have used large international events to raise their profile internationally.

Study on poverty and it's debate in the Netherlands. Floris Noordhoff intends to surpass the dichotomy between structuralist/individualist explanations of poverty and how poverty perpetuates itself over time.

A study of the importance of home-based economic activities to Caribbean urban livelihoods, surveying the way low-income households organise such activities, and the role of institutions and policies involved in the process.

This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s.

On the economic aspects of tuberculosis control

Julie Castonguay developes a social benchmark model which can be used to assess the performance of active labour market policies in general, and work-based employment programs in specific

This study explores the short term migration of Bangladeshi women to Malaysia to work in labour intensive, export oriented factories, and considers the consequences of their decision to migrate.

Van der Graaf researches the emotional ties of residents to their deprived neighbourhood

Provides insight in the political-institutional conditions that have impeded and encouraged onshore wind power implementation in the Netherlands, England and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia

We present detailed studies of the infrared spectra of carbon-rich evolved stars. Theses studies yield insight in the composition of the dust surrounding these stars. The presence of some new materials in space has been inferred, leading to a more complete view of the composition, location and density of the dust surrounding carbon-rich old stars.

Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers and media as a disturbing social problem. This highly readable book provides the first systematic and empirically grounde

Concentrating on three countries, Spain, France and the United Kingdom, and three regional case studies of Galicia, Brittany and Wales, this book offers an analysis of the development of political regionalism after regionalisation.

How do citizens perceive the shift from economic integration to political unification? What principles guide their approval or rejection of EU projects? What are chances and risks of EU legitimacy?

Neeltje Elisabeth Langeveld (1954) worked at the Emma Children's Hospital where she was promoted to the position of Research Nurse in the Children's Cancer Department. From 1990 she trained in Clinical Epidemiology for Nurses at the AMC. In 1996 she started the research which is the subject of this dissertation. She will remain active as Research N

Increasing doubts over the narratives that traditionally served to legitimize the tasks and possibilities of societal institutions - such as science - have also called into question the significance of philosophy to educational thinking. Related debates largely concern epistemological issues, i.e. issues regarding the nature and status of (scientif

The urban population is becoming increasingly diverse and growing (ethnic) diversity is having a singular effect on nightlife in Dutch cities. By studying the motivation behind and nightlife choices of the young people who participate in ethno-party scenes, Boogaarts-de Bruin investigates how the changing urban population affects the supply side of

As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing war left a strong imprint on German society. To a much wider extent than is often claimed, the Allied bombings became part of German debates on the Second World War. In both the GDR as well as the Federal Republic before and after 1990 the air war became a topic of public and polit

In 2000 and 2001, twelve northern states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria introduced Islamic criminal law as one of a number of measures aiming at -reintroducing the shari'a. Immediately after its adoption, defendants were sentenced to death by stoning or to amputation of the hand. Apart from a few well publicised trials, however, the number and

The need for a vaccine against HIV is obvious, but the development of an effective vaccine has met with frustrations. The HIV envelope glycoproteins, residing in the viral membrane, are the sole viral proteins exposed on the outside of virus particles and are therefore major targets for vaccine design. The first part of this thesis describes resear

This book studies the relationship between collective rituals and three key issues of public space, discursive contexts, and normative orders, over the course of three different periods of Iranian political systems: the Qajar Dynasty (beginning in 1848 with the founding of Naseredin Shah's Kingdom), the Pahlavi dynasty (1926-1979), and the Islamic Republic (from 1979 until the present).