How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle experience justice on their own terms? Phenomenal Justice is a compelling ethnography about the reopened trials for crimes against humanity committed during the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Grounded in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion, this book establishes a new theoretical basis that is faithful to the uncertainties of justice...

This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively. The book explores the coupling of safety and security from different perspectives, especially: the conce...

Wicked World advocates the need to acknowledge the complex contexts in which managers, professionals and policymakers operate. Conventional tools do not serve us well in these new contexts, and regularly, aggravate the situation. This book offers a systemic perspective in exploring complex challenges and a sensemaking framework to deal with interconnected, persistent problems. Looking beyond the problem; seeking deeper patterns and linkages to other problems; realizing that cause and effect m...

- Engelse gids voor praktijkgericht kwalitatief en kwantitatief onderzoek;

- behandelt de essentie van onderzoek in vier praktische stappen;

- met handige checklists voor het zelf opzetten en uitvoeren van onderzoek.

This is research! leert hbo-studenten in vier stappen onderzoek doen. Het boek behandelt kort en krachtig de theorie en de praktijk van onderzoek en bevat een schat aan onderzoeksvoorbeelden, direct toepasbaar bij projecten, stage- en afstudeeropdrachten. Bijzonder handig zijn de...

The limitations of the present investigation impose to restrict the analysis to the trial system of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as it is not possible to examine in depth the problem of the position of the third state. The present study intends to contribute to the reconstruction of the structural features of the intervention as not party, as foreseen by articles 62 and 63, of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Statute. The first part of this survey is dedicated to a genera...

Met de publicatie van 'Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-Identification' willen de initiatiefnemers een lans breken voor activistische kunstuitingen die durven te provoceren. In het huidige neoliberale politieke klimaat is weinig ruimte voor maatschappijkritische culturele uitingen tenzij ze zich aanpassen aan de wetten van de vrije markt of de afgesproken normen en waarden. Dit boek wil aantonen dat dit doorbroken kan worden met over-identificatie: compromisloos je idealen naleven. In...

To continuously deliver IT systems at speed with a focus on business value, DevOps teams integrate quality engineering in their way of working.

This book supports teams in implementing quality in their DevOps culture, with practical examples, useful knowledge and some theoretical background. For example, it describes how to benefit from a CI/CD pipeline.

TMAP is the body of knowledge for quality engineering in IT delivery and builds on practical experience from thousands of people in more tha...

Which roles and practices do you adopt to effectively guide businesses towards a sustainable future? And what skills and competencies do you need to establish sustainable transformation? In '7 Roles to Create Sustainable Success', Carola Wijdoogen shares the insights of 25 professionals around the world and her own experiences as Chief Sustainability Officer of Dutch Railways (NS), which she helped transform into a climate-neutral, circular and inclusive railway company. For example, the Neth...

Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities. This volume adds a new global perspective to the history of the Philippines by juxtaposing Iberian, Chinese and Islamic perspectives. By navigating various underexplored archival resources, senior and junior scholars from Asia, Europe and the A...

Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. Like an atlas it provides information, in an accessible format, on the mai...