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S. Snellenberg - Kievit (6919375) PERFORMING THE CROSS: THE DANE SAGA , CIVIC RELIGION, AND MEMORY IN LATE MEDIEVAL BREDA
(2025)This thesis, Performing the Cross: The Dane Saga, Civic Religion, and Memory in Late Medieval Breda, examines the interplay of narrative, ritual, and civic identity in the Brabantine city of Breda during the late fifteenth ... -
Moscow-Damascus: How the Ukraine War Disrupted the Patron-Client Relationship Between Russia and Syria.
(2025)Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, most research has focused on the war’s impact on Europe. Despite there being clear consequences for the European region, this conflict has also had ... -
Revising the Role of the Polluter Pays Principle in Tackling Textile Microplastics Release: a Critical Analysis of the EU Textile Life-cycle Legislation in Light of Circular Economy
(2025)The purpose of this study is to evaluate to what extent the PPP is relevant or should be relevant within the provision regarding the prevention of TMPs release and covering the entire textile life-cycle, in light of the ... -
On Shame, Desire, and Other Daily Disasters: A Situated, Affective Reading of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much (2020)
(2025)This thesis offers a situated, affect-oriented reading of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much, examining how its narrative and affective structures resist catharsis and destabilize redemptive arcs. Drawing on affect theory, ... -
Artists’ Perceptions of Precarious Working Conditions within Mobility Programs
(2025)This study investigates how artists experience precarious conditions within cultural institutions, with a particular emphasis on their participation in residencies. By unpacking these dynamics, the study contributes to ... -
Building Blocks for a Theory of Change: The Transformative Role of Impact Dimensions in Zoönomic Methods and Instruments
(2025)The zoönomy presents an alternative vision of an economy that works towards ecological regeneration and promotes the wellbeing of more-than-human life. Through applying zoönomic methods and instruments, “Zoöp” organisations ... -
Constructive Communication and Psychological Symptoms in Clinical Couples: The Mediating Role of Relationship Satisfaction
(2025)Romantic relationships involving individuals receiving mental health care are associated with high societal costs. However, relational dynamics affecting psychological symptoms remain understudied. This dyadic study ... -
The Belarus-Poland crisis: Bordering on trafficking? Exploring the crime of Trafficking in Human Beings in a border context.
(2025)My master thesis, titled "The Belarus-Poland Crisis: Bordering on Trafficking?", explores whether the treatment of migrants at the Belarus-Poland border between May and November 2021 can constitute the crime of Trafficking ... -
Wildness in the Dutch landscape - A study into the perception of wildness of large grazers at the Veluwe, the Netherlands
(2025)Due to growing human influence on the natural landscape, either through fragmentation, or human interference, the pressure on shared natural areas is increasing. Recreational purposes meet the habitats of wildlife, and ... -
Exploring Innovation Dynamics in Adopting and Scaling Nature-Inclusive Fibre Crops for Biobased Construction in Utrecht
(2025)The urgent need to decarbonise the built environment and reduce agricultural externalities has drawn growing interest in biobased construction materials. Nature-inclusive fibre crops such as hemp, flax and miscanthus ... -
A Chance at Existence: Queer Iranian Cinema after the Islamic Revolution
(2025)This thesis examines the elusive presence of queer cinema in post-revolutionary Iran, where state censorship and sociopolitical restrictions render explicit queer representation largely invisible. Drawing on reception ... -
Girl bossing ourselves out of oppression: liberation just one like and share away!- The commodification and co-optation of feminist and queer activism on social media
(2025)Social media has become an essential platform in order to disseminate and propagate social change. Particularly on Instagram, queer and feminist activism has flourished, adhering to the visual and textual structures of the ... -
Sowing Seeds of Development: The role of Mission in the Educational, Economic, and Cultural Development in Namibia (1806-1926)
(2025)This thesis tracks the long-term developments of Christianity and formal education in Namibia from its pre-colonial beginnings to the establishment of the Education Proclamation of 1926 (1806-1926). The Rhenish and Finnish ... -
Disentangling how Depressive Symptoms, Rumination, and Hopelessness Relate to Suicidal Intrusions: A Moderated-Mediation Analysis
(2025)Suicidal intrusions – vivid, involuntary thoughts or images of suicide – have recently gained attention in research and relate to suicidal ideation. While research could link depressive symptoms to suicidal intrusions, the ... -
‘‘Unknown Structures’’: Annie Ernaux between literature and media
(2025)This research project proposes the Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s poetics as one interested in rendering lived experience as it simultaneously experiments formally. Extending the author’s idea of ‘unknown structures’, ... -
Duration Heard, Meter Drawn: Rethinking Musical Time with Henri Bergson
(2025)The thesis investigates how listeners perceive and conceptualise musical time by placing Henri Bergson’s philosophy of duration at the centre of rhythm and meter studies. I argue in this thesis that rhythm belongs to ... -
AI, Political Opinion, and Behavior
(2025)Technological innovation, from agricultural mechanization to computerization, has transformed economies in the past. Artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next wave of workplace automation, yet its effects on political ... -
Towards a Decolonial Intersectionality: Examining Power, Knowledge, and Identity in Chilean Elementary Teacher Programs. Urbina - 9193510
(2025)Feminist and Decolonial perspectives have come to be crucial theoretical frameworks in education and pedagogy throughout the years, bringing to the forefront issues that had been historically neglected. These theoretical ...