Research projects
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Investigating Insemination Fraud
This project investigates how this insemination fraud and other (from today’s perspective) malpractices in fertility treatments were possible in the Netherlands between 1945 and 2004.
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The ‘First Ladies’ of the Dutch Republic
By analyzing and comparing the political agency of four seventeenth-century Nassau consorts, this project will provide valuable new insights into the repertoires of power available to princely women.
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'To protect and serve'
This project analyses how the Dutch police responded and adapted to societal and governmental pressure from the 1930s - 1980s.
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Integrating History in Dutch Public Policy
Policy makers value history. They do not, however, systematically apply historical insights and skills in policy practice. This project studies why this is the case.
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The Teacher as Citizen-maker
This research exposes the (changing) views on and of the teacher as a 'former of citizens' in the Netherlands since 1945.
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Room for Protest
'Room for protest' examines on a decentralised level how democracy and public order have clashed in practices of and discussions about protest since 1919.
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Privacy Rules
This project combines iHub's value-driven approach to studying the societal impact of digitisation with the research group's interest in the history of post-war public, political and administrative debate on citizenship, transparency and democracy.
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Subproject The Voice of the People: Netherlands
In this subproject, Solange Ploeg explores the articulation, mediatisation and construction of popular expectations of democracy in postwar Netherlands with a focus on the years between 1945 and the early 1980s.
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Subproject The Voice of the People: West Germany
In this subproject Malte Fischer seeks to explore how ordinary citizens in the Bonn Republic have perceived the postwar political system.
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Subproject The Voice of the People: Great Britain
In this subproject of The Voice of the People, Jamie Lee Jenkins analyses how ordinary citizens in postwar Britain have perceived the political system.
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The Voice of the People
The Voice of the People investigates and compares the articulation and mediatisation of popular perceptions and expectations of democracy in three Western-European countries roughly between the end of the Second World War and the 1980s.
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Fair and reasonable
The reasonable exchange of arguments in parliament nowadays seems to be at odds with the accessibility of democratic decision-making. Debate procedures are often seen by the people as elitist and undemocratic.
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Breaking Borders
Researching the transatlantic dimension to socialist discussions in the early 20th century, this promotional project analyzes the idea of international solidarity between socialists from Europe, the Caribbean and North America.
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Re/Presenting Europe
This project investigates the positive impact of sports on European societies, through a study of issues of belonging, in- and exclusion, identity formation, and national representation.
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Calling for Timeout
This PhD project sets out to explore how and why public protest against the hosting of mega-sporting events, and in particular the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, has emerged and transnationalised from the 1960s to the present.
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‘Keep calm and carry on’?
Times of crisis are moments of great emotional upheaval. This project investigates three moments of societal crisis in twentieth-century Netherlands to find out how emotions were expressed and valued during these times.