Books published by Amsterdam University Press

This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukacs's concept of reification and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle.

Dirgantoro presents the first comprehensive study of feminisms and contemporary art in Indonesia.

In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which players seize back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself.

How can multinational companies develop a set of new collaborative business models that can contribute to increased system resilience of cities, regions or countries?

A convincing argument as to why the West's military superiority scarcely matters, looking at the lack of decisive use of force in critical situations.

This book aims to explore the larger consequences of taking in large number of immigrants.

This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia.

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on migration by European and Southeast Asian scholars.

How did the integration of Jews into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War?

The rich history of the Cannes Film Festival as seen from the inside.

Fellini unravels the universe of Federico Fellini, one of the most image-defining masters of post-war Italian cinema.

When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers

In our modern knowledge economy, the life sciences constitute a major driver of innovation, involving many people and huge capital investment. Frank Miedema discusses how external forces changed the life sciences and how this affected the lives and careers of scientists. He argues that the romantic view of science as a consensus machine with scient

A meticulously researched, illuminating study of the use and significance of Roman weaponry and horse gear from non-military contexts in the territory of the Batavians

Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection o

This illuminating study offers a comprehensive analysis of the rural habitation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire. Transcending the traditional studies, the author traces developments in the organisation of settlement space and house building, drawing on fieldwork from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Thanks to the broad ge

Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century?

China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified citysca

Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new