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Stateless, Rightless and Weaponized. The European Union's human rights contradictions in the EU-Belarus border crisis. Wesselink, 6151701
(2022)This thesis focuses on the contradictory attitude of the European Union regarding the safeguarding of the human rights of migrants and refugees, specifically in the case of weaponized migration that was started by Belarussian ... -
The Two Faces of the Dutch: A Multilateral Approach to the Dilemmas in Dutch Policy Regarding the Korean War and the NDVN ‘Nederlandse Detachement Verenigde Naties’
(2022)It is not well- known in the Netherlands that nearly 5,000 soldiers served from December 1950 to January 1955 during the Korean War. From these 5,000 soldiers, 120 soldiers lost its lives on the Korean peninsula. During ... -
Diamond in the Rough: Een culturele biografie van het oorlogsmonument in Derry/Londonderry
(2022)In Noord-Ierland is al honderden jaren spanning tussen de protestantse unionisten en de katholieke nationalisten. Deze strijd lijkt op het eerste gezicht vooral gebaseerd op religieuze en politieke overtuigingen. Pogingen ... -
Screening Homonormativity and Queer Resistance: Irish LGBTQ Community Responses to Mainstream Film and Television Representation
(2022)Visibility in media and society has been a central concern for Western LGBTQ activists for many decades. Seeing LGBTQ people on screen has frequently been positioned as an essential tool to force mainstream, heteronormative ... -
Ecological Impressionism: Envisioning a New Framework of Ecological Aesthetic Politics
(2022)In times of climate crisis, the question of reimagining society ecologically is more urgent than ever. The response to the ecological crisis remains inadequate, and global climate change mitigation goals are increasingly ... -
Possible Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Uterus for the Right to Abortion. A perspective of Feminist Bioethics.
(2022)The researchers predict that within five years it will be possible to use the artificial uterus and the partial ectogenesis process on human fetuses. In light of this consideration, it is necessary to develop a feminist ... -
Noise from stochastically excited structures: Modelling the noise from marine propellers excited by a turbulent boundary layer
(2022)People do not always realise sound is of great importance underwater. Marine life is strongly affected by underwater noise. The source of underwater noise this work focusses on is that of non-cavitating marine propellers. ... -
“Onze Westerse Beschaving”: A Conceptual History of the Idea of the West in the Netherlands, 1875-1994
(2022)This research project traces the history of the idea of the West in Dutch discourse from the late 19th century up until the end of the Cold War. Through the use of quantitative methods such as word embeddings and n-gram ... -
“To a dear and merciful woman”. Exploring the letter collection of Mechtild of Guelders, duchess-pretender of Guelders, 1365-1380
(2022)184 original letters aimed at, sent by, and related to Mechtild of Guelders can nowadays be found in the archives of the Duchy of Guelders, which are part of the collection of the Gelders Archief at Arnhem; all of these ... -
STUDYING REPLICATION ORGANELLES USING ADVANCED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY
(2022)The enterovirus genus comprises many human pathogens such as poliovirus, coxsackievirus and rhinovirus. For efficient replication, enteroviruses induce membrane rearrangements which require the interaction between viral ... -
Analysis and Quantification of Urban Bicycle Networks: The Example of Copenhagen
(2022)This research aimed to analyze and quantify the changes in Copenhagen’s urban bicycle network, which has recently been improved in favor of cyclists. My methods are rooted in network science and based on data from ... -
(Seeking) Asylum in the Netherlands: Experiences of and Challenges to Sustain Human Security of Afghan Forced Migrants
(2022)Through adopting a human security approach, this research aims to explore what implications forced migration movements have on experiences of, and challenges to sustain, human security of Afghan forced migrants in the ... -
The nature of water and land in K'am Samnar
(2022)Water is the lifeblood of every living being on earth. In Cambodia water is abundantly available, but not always accessible. The Mekong river is an important vein in the life of many rural households in Cambodia. People ...