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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)

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Secure Oil and Alternative Energy: The Geopolitics and Energy Paths of China and the European Union

While intensive cooperation between China and the EU in the fields of energy use, environmental protection, and sustainability is highly needed, the question remains unanswered how this cooperation could be organized.

Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market. Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, this book by Bram Lancee identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment, income and occupational status and, conversely, decrease unemployment.

Trusting on the edge

This book by Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan explores a number of questions which are central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust. The authors link these abstract concerns to empirical analysis, involving interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers.

Experimentalist Governance in the European Union

Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds) present an original theoretical argument about the emergent architecture of EU governance. The authors provide authoritative, up-to-date analyses of EU governance in key policy sectors.

De Tasjesdief. Nieuw booklet in de reeks: Project Buurten, Spanningen en Conflicten

Deze reeks booklets is het resultaat van een drie jaar durend onderzoeksproject naar locale conflict situaties in buurten in de 4 grote steden in Nederland. Het eerste booklet `Rethinking Maakbaarheid' is nu te downloaden.

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Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, Bram Lancee identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment, income and occupational status and, conversely, decrease unemployment.

‘We are the canary in a coal mine’: Establishing a disease category and a new health risk

This article by Bert de Graaff and Christian Broer analyses the process of establishing a risk object – electromagnetic fields. This example will be used to examine risk categorisation as such, and to explore how individual and collective attempts to establish a new risk interact with health policy.

Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets

This book, edited by Manual Aalbers (AISSR), presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis.

Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction

Andy Alaszewski (University of Kent) and Patrick Brown (AISSR) open up the policy-making process, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different.

"Othering" the health worker: self-stigmatization of HIV/AIDS care among health workers in Swaziland

This study by Danny de Vries explored perceived barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care and prevention services among health workers in Swaziland.

AISSR/ARC-GS researchers contribute to special section in Sexualities: Queer Netherlands

The articles in this special section bear witness to the Dutch ambivalence regarding LGBT emancipation. The issue offers windows on Dutch homosexual – and thus heterosexual – culture and its erotic liberties and restraints.

The Tragedy of the Margins: Land Rights and Marginal Lands in Vietnam (c. 1800-1945)

This article by John Kleinen deals with aspects of official land registers in pre-colonial and colonial Vietnam and their relationship with marginal lands since the eleventh century and especially since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam

This volume, edited by Marcel Maussen, Veit Bader and Annelies Moors, analyses the mutual impact of colonial and postcolonial governance on the development, organisation and mobilisation of Islam

Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets. A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios

This volume, edited by Maria lind and Olav Velthuis, maps and analyzes the complex and contested entanglements of contemporary art and its commercial markets.

Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies

In Speculative Security, Marieke de Goede describes how previously unscrutinized practices such as donations and remittances have been affected by security measures that include datamining, asset freezing, and transnational regulation.

Middling Migration: Contradictory Mobility Experiences of Indian Youth in London

In this paper Mario Rutten and Sanderien Verstappen examine the contradictory migration experiences of Indian youngsters who recently moved to Britain on a student or temporary work visa. All of them lived in London at the time of the interview, and are from middle class families in Gujarat.

Provincial Globalisation: Transnational Flows and Regional Development

This paper by Carol Upadhya and Mario Rutten reviews the migration and development debate and the current state of knowledge about flows of migrant resources to India, pointing to gaps and shortcomings in the literature.

Promoting ethnic entrepreneurship in European cities

This report by Jan Rath shows that ethnic entrepreneurs, however small their venture, contribute to the economic growth of their local area, often rejuvenate neglected crafts and trades, and participate increasingly in the provision of higher value-added services.

Het gemeenschappelijk offensief voor de Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie in de 21ste eeuw

Dit rapport behelst een reflectie op de samenwerking tussen 5 ministeries, 5 provincies, meer dan 25 gemeenten en diverse NGO's om het cultureel erfgoed en de landschappen van de Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie te revitaliseren.

Selling ethnic neighbourhoods. The rise of neighbourhoods as places of leisure and consumption

Edited by Volkan Aytar and Jan Rath. This book aims to analyze the roles of ethnic entrepreneurs and their associations and governments, and – by extension – of consumers and other actors in the rise of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption.

Gevoel van dreiging

Ofschoon de wereld in allerlei opzichten nog nooit zo veilig is geweest, wanen mensen zich omringd door nauwelijks te beheersen risico’s. Hoe moeten wij daar rationeel op reageren? De multiculturele samenleving levert onverwacht hoge criminaliteit op bij enkele etnische groepen en er zijn nieuwe vormen van delinquentie geïntroduceerd. Hoe moet de Nederlandse strafrechtspleging daarop reageren? Frank Bovenkerk, Marjolein Odekerken en Ineke Roex gaan in op deze en andere vragen.

Beyond home ownership

This collection engages with numerous debates on housing and society in a range of developed societies from North America to Asia-Pacific to North, South, East and West Europe.

Publication by John Grin on valorisation vs. scientific productivity

This paper in a special issue of 'Industry & Higher Education' investigates the consequences of institutional changes on academic research practices in eight fields of natural science in the Netherlands.

Financial Satisfaction and (in)formal Sector in a Transition Country

Article by Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Klarita Gërxhani that examines the relationship between working in the formal or informal sector and self-reported individual financial satisfaction in a country in transition.

Migration Policymaking in Europe. The Dynamics of Actors and Contexts in Past and Present

This important work by Giovanna Zincone, Rinus Penninx, Maren Borkert analyses immigration and immigrant inclusion policies in ten European countries, examining how such policies are formed and subsequently implemented.

Reflexive Planning as Design and Work: Lessons from the Port of Amsterdam

With this article Enza Lissandrello & John Grin seek to contribute to the literature on reflexive planning. It explores the practical utility of reflexivity for planners, through a case study that focuses on a project to promote sustainable development in the Port of Amsterdam.

The effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices: three cases from agricultural science

Laurens K Hessels, John Grin and Ruud E H M Smits investigate the varying effects of a changing institutional environment on academic research practices in three fields of Dutch animal science.

Shutting Down the Streets. Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era

Co-authored by Christian Scholl (lecturer Political Science and Gender Studies). "Shutting Down the Streets" is the first book to conceptualize the social control of dissent in the era of alterglobalization.

Booklet reeks: Project Buurten, Spanningen en Conflicten

Resultaat van onderzoek naar conflict situaties in de 4 grote steden in Nederland.

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