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Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analysis, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanisms of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
Tot in de jaren 1920 heerste in Antwerpen al bij al een tolerant klimaat tegenover joden. 'Vreemdelingen in een wereldstad' beschrijft hoe de vreemdelingenhaat de kop opsteekt in het Antwerpen van de jaren 1930, zich aanvankelijk vooral nestelt in kringen van Belgisch-nationalisten, en niet in die van het verdraagzamer Vlaams-nationalisme, en uiteindelijk een catastrofaal culminatiepunt bereikt tijdens de bezetting. De lakse houding van vele gezagsdragers en het gebrek aan (passief) verzet in het algemeen waren uiteindelijk bepalend voor het hoge Antwerpse deportatiecijfer.
De samenstellers van dit boek vinden het verbijsterend dat de postmoderne politiek correcte elite het "spook van de islam dat door Europa waart zo geestdriftig omarmt". Anders dan deze politiek correcte intellectuelen die "de islam omarmen met dezelfde kracht waarmee ze ooit het katholicisme bekampten", noemen de auteurs van dit boek zichzelf geen dhimmis, maar rationele onderzoekers met een open geest. In deze bundel laten binnen- en buitenlandse wetenschappers en essayisten hun licht schijnen over de vele facetten van de islam.
Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around civic concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform. Amsterdam's development serves as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for cities across Europe and North America where rapid new growth creates similar pressures.
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Sca...
Welke rol mogen levensbeschouwingen spelen in het onderwijs? Waar liggen de grenzen van het multiculturele samenleven? Hoe tolerant kun je zijn voor intolerantie? Wat is de rol van het actief pluralisme? Hoe verhoudt het humanisme zich tot ecologie? Is een moraal mogelijk zonder god? De Vrijzinnige dienst van de Universiteit Antwerpen nodigde tijdens de lezingencyclus "Onze waarden? Welke toekomst voor het humanisme?" Dirk Verhofstadt, Wim van Rooy, Floris van den Berg, Raymonda Verdyck, Magda Michielsens, Ronald Commers en Benno Barnard uit om zich hierover uit te spreken. Jurgen Slembrouck bundelde hun lezingen.
This directory comprises data on more than 800 top European food scientists including their complete addresses, telephone and fax numbers, as well as such background information as fields of expertise, research topics and consulting activities. Additionally, private, governmental and official laboratories for food control have also been included, while exhaustive indexes allow easy access to all entries. The increasing demand for internationally approved professionals in all fields of food science makes this volume an invaluable source of information for the food industry, R + D institutions, consultants, private laboratories and university departments seeking cooperation and service partners or consultancy.
This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Navajo, Portuguese, Tahltan, Terena, Tswana, Tuvan, and Zoque. The subjects dealt with in the book include feature geometry, underspecification (in rule-based and in Opti-mality Theoretic treatments) and the phonetic implementation of phonological features. Other topics include laryngeal features (e.g. [voice], [spread glottis], [nasal]), and place features for consonants and vowels. The volume will be of interest to all linguists and advanced students of linguistics working on feature theory and/or the phonetics-phonology interface.
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This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approac...