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Intercultural Contact and Social Trust in the Netherlands: Contextual Effects and the Role of Education .
(2025)Introduction and theory: In light of growing concerns about social cohesion and disparities in social trust, this thesis investigates how intercultural contact in different social settings, which are distinguished using ... -
Tracing Feeling, Writing Futurity: A Case Study On Spicer’s Early Poems as Dictated, Serial Poetics
(2025)This thesis re-reads three poems Jack Spicer wrote to his long-distance lover, Gary Bottone, between 1950 and 1952 (namely, “Sonnet for the Beginning of Winter,” “Train Song for Gary,” and “A Second Train Song for Gary”) ... -
Toxic Entanglements: Decolonial Ecologies and Emancipatory Eesistance in Martinique’s Chlordecone Crisis
(2025)Chlordecone, a toxic pesticide introduced in the 1970s in Martinique to combat the banana weevil, was deployed under the pretext of preserving the economic value of banana crops. Although classified as a possible carcinogen ... -
Techno-economic assessment of BTX production from bio-based waste feedstocks via Integrated Cascading Catalytic Pyrolysis
(2025)Achieving the Paris Agreement’s climate goals also requires the transformation of the chemical industry. The patented BioBTX production pathway converts mixed waste plastics into BTX via pyrolysis with catalytic upgrading. ... -
Energetic, Economic and Practical Evaluation of CO₂-, Water- and Geothermal-Based Heat-Transfer Configurations for the Tilburg–Breda District Heating Network
(2025)In ambition to reach net zero in 2050 the Dutch government announced the total phasing out of fossil fuels within the country. 11,7% of the country's fossil fuel consumption originates from residential heating, which ... -
Rethinking Permits and Access in the Honeybush Industry: The inclusion of marginalized communities into the honeybush industry
(2025)The honeybush Cyclopia spp. industry, endemic in the high biodiverse Cape Floristic Region of South Africa and the fynbos biome, has witnessed international demand while continuing to affect inclusivity to the local ... -
Judging Conservation: An Environmental Justice Approach to the Impact of the Chagos Marine Protected Area
(2025)The 2025 Agreement between the UK and Mauritius on the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago represents both an exciting step towards completing decolonisation in the Indian Ocean and a harsh reminder that the islands’ ... -
Childhood Trauma and Attachment Styles in Pain Decision Making
(2025)Decision-making in people's everyday lives involves exploiting familiar options or exploring new alternatives, known as the exploration-exploitation dilemma (EED). It is particularly relevant in the context of pain, because ... -
The Influence of Fire Regimes on the Subtropical grasslands in Bardia National Park, Nepal
(2025)The open grasslands of Bardia National Park in Nepal are critical habitats for several endangered species, yet they are increasingly threatened by the encroachment of woody vegetation. This process reduces forage availability ... -
Predicting protest: Conceptual framing and moral legitimization of predictive policing on social movements in the Netherlands by Dutch security actors.
(2025)This thesis examines how Dutch security actors conceptually frame and morally legitimize predictive policing in the context of protest, and what underlying governmental rationalities shape its development. Drawing on ... -
Role Overload or Opportunity? The Influence of Role Multiplicity on CSR Managers
(2025)As Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes increasingly central to business strategy, CSR managers are expected to assume a wide range of roles, encompassing compliance and reporting, strategic development, stakeholder ... -
The Impact of Drought on Water Quality (nutrients) in Agricultural Ditches
(2025)Surface waters in the Netherlands are being polluted by excess nitrate (NO3- ) and ammonium (NH4+) compounds which mostly originate from farming (including livestock). Droughts have shown to alter NO3- and NH4+ concentrations ... -
The Affective Politics of Inclusion in Elite Women’s Hockey
(2025)This thesis analyzes how inclusion is experienced and policed within elite women's hockey locker rooms in the Netherlands. A mixed-method survey of Hoofdklasse players is used, which combines statistical analysis with ... -
When the Odds Change: Evaluating the Effects of the 2024 U.S. Election Win Probabilities and ESG Ratings on Stock Returns
(2025)This paper examines how short-term fluctuations in the perceived likelihood of a Republican victory during the 2024 U.S. presidential election interacted with firm-level ESG ratings to influence stock returns. Using a ... -
Bystander trainingen: doeltreffend of te kort schietend?
(2025)In 2022 maakte BOOS een uitzending over de misstanden bij The Voice of Holland, waar ernstige meldingen waren gemaakt over grensoverschrijdend gedrag. Sindsdien is het aantal meldingen exponentieel toegenomen (Van der Ploeg ... -
Manufacturing Crisis: Populism, Sovereignism, and the Digital Politics of Insecurity in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Elections
(2025)This dissertation investigates how populist actors weaponise insecurity to legitimise sovereignist claims, with particular attention to the co-productive role of digital audiences in this process. Focusing on Călin Georgescu’s ... -
Helping People Help Themselves? The Role of Institutionalized Peer Involvement in European Harm Reduction Organizations from a Prefigurative Politics Perspective
(2025)Introduction: Harm Reduction started off as a movement based in prefigurative principles in response to the AIDS/HIV crisis. It sought to reduce harm experienced by people who use drugs by addressing root societal causes ... -
Reluctant repression: a case study of the ban on consumption of hard drugs in Utrecht
(2025)In the Netherlands, as in other nations, people using drugs in public and their related behavior are experienced as a nuisance by other residents. Municipalities have always been at the forefront of these debates, as they ...