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China´s Ambition in Space
Programs, Policy and Law
2022 || Hardcover || Xiaodan Wu || Boom uitgevers Den Haag
No other country has, in the past two decades, developed its space capabilities and capacities in such an expansive way as China. Today it is mastering practically all space activities and applications and, furthermore, can set ‘firsts’ as landing on the far side of the moon. These impressive achievements make China not only an ever-important actor in outer space but also an object of research and analysis.
China’s Space Ambition – Programs, Policies and the Law allows for analysis o...
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Breaking Eurocentric Frames on a Marital Institution
Breaking Eurocentric Frames on Arranged Marriage
2022 || Hardcover || N.N. Tahir || Boom uitgevers Den Haag
“What exactly is the arranged marriage?” That is the central question that this book evolves around. The author argues that the arranged marriage is often misrepresented in academic literature as it is generally analyzed through a Eurocentric lens. This is not neutral lens. The Eurocentric frame perceives the free-choice marriage system as the ideal. As a result, the arranged marriage is perceived to be a lesser marital tradition, a “marriage of shortcomings”, one that fails to meet t...
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Remaking justice after sexual violence
Essays in conventional, restorative, and innovative justice
2022 || Hardcover || Kathleen Daly || Boom uitgevers Den Haag
What are effective responses to sexual violence? A global social movement is once again challenging sexual violence in all its settings: where we live, work, study, sleep, play, and pray. As more victims and survivors report to the police, speak out in street protests and online spaces, and disclose to psychologists, inquiries, and the media, they face inept and insensitive criminal and civil justice systems. What is to be done? This anthology provides an answer.
Kathleen Daly has been writi...
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Student Housing in Europe
An overview of policies and regulations in several countries
2022 || Hardcover || Tom Vandromme e.a. || Boom uitgevers Den Haag
Throughout Europe, students move from their home address to accommodation, whether temporary or not, near their university or college. The majority of European countries have experienced a sharp increase in the number of students in higher education in recent years and, consequently, in the number of students staying in student housing. At the same time there is a severe housing shortage in several countries, including sharply rising housing prices and rents in urban areas, where also the hig...