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Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog deden Chinese arbeiders uit Rotterdamals stoker dienst op olietankers van de Curaçaosche ScheepvaartMaatschappij (Shell). Dat was een gevaarlijke klus, want de Duitsersnamen transportschepen regelmatig onder vuur. In april 1942 gingen dearbeiders in staking. Toen de staking grimmige vormen begon aan te nemen,schoten politie en bewakers van de olieraffinaderij vijftien Chinezenzonder pardon dood. Zij werden op begraafplaats Kolebra Bèrdè, ook welbekend als 'he...

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintend...

This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving force for change, and individuals can develop a multicultural mind.

It is also the first IC textbook in the field that incorporates insight from evolutionary biology and the newly emerging discipline of cultural

neurosciences. Such an interdisciplinary approach provides readers wi...

Lytse bal, grut spul fan Pieter Breuker is in boek oer acht ieuwen keatshistoarje en keatskultuer. It is taspitst op Fryslân, mar omdat rûnom op de wrâld noch oare keatsfarianten spile wurde, sjocht de auteur ek geregeld oer de grinzen, te begjinnen yn Nederlân.

De fjouwer haadtema's binne (keatsen en): Histoarje; Kultuer algemien; Taal; Literatuer. De auteur leit hieltiten wer ferbiningen tusken keatsen en kultuer en snijt dêrtroch ûnderwerpen oan dy't yn de algemiene oersjoggen koart ...

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and dilemmas of using the marketplace as an arena for politics. It goes beyond simply buying or boycotting to critically explore how individuals, collectives, corporations and governments do politics with and through consumption.

Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

Anti-Russische sentimenten zwerven al heel lang rond in onze media. Ook in de Oekraïne-crisis is deze stemming duidelijk waar te nemen. Maar niet alleen is de verhouding tussen Rusland, het Westen en Oekraïne complexer geworden dan in de massa-media wordt gesuggereerd, dat geldt ook voor de Russische geschiedenis zelf, sinds het einde van de Koude Oorlog.Het is in het belang van de EU om Rusland als partner te hebben en wie deze kans negeert, riskeert dat Europa in de machtsstrijd tussen gr...