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De verbindende actor. Een onderzoek naar de bijdrage van Regionale Informatie- en Expertisecentra aan een integrale samenwerking bij de aanpak van ondermijning in Noord-Brabant en Zeeland
No full textHet onderwerp ‘ondermijning’ heeft de laatste tien jaar een steeds prominentere plek verkregen in zowel het publieke debat als het veiligheidsbeleid van verschillende overheidsinstanties. Steeds wordt er gehamerd op een integrale wijze van samenwerking als dé ideale manier om deze ontwrichtende vorm van criminaliteit aan te pakken. Om een geïntegreerde aanpak van ondermijning te kunnen realiseren zijn verschillende Regionale Informatie- en Expertisecentra (RIEC) opgericht. De taak van deze RIEC’s is het stimuleren van een brede beweging binnen overheid en samenleving om weerbaarder te worden tegen de invloed van criminele krachten in het dagelijks leven. In dit onderzoek wordt gekeken in hoeverre het de RIEC’s lukt een bijdrage te leveren aan een integrale aanpak. Voor dit onderzoek is dan ook de volgende hoofdvraag opgesteld: In hoeverre dragen de Regionale Informatie- en Expertisecentra (RIEC’s) bij aan een integrale samenwerking tussen partners in de aanpak van ondermijning? Deze vraag is beantwoord door middel van interviews met betrokkenen bij de samenwerking binnen het RIEC-verband. Daarnaast is aanvullend gebruik gemaakt van een documentenanalyse. Op basis van de interviews en de documentenanalyse kunnen het RIEC Oost-Brabant en het RIEC Zeeland West-Brabant worden beschouwd als goed functionerende collaboratieve platformorganisaties. Alle vier de structuur- en procesvariabelen die volgens de inzichten van Ansell en Gash (2017) in een collaboratieve platformorganisatie aanwezig moeten zijn om goed te kunnen functioneren, komen veelvuldig naar voren in de interviews en de geanalyseerde documenten. Het tweede deel van de resultaten beschrijft in welke mate de RIEC’s beschikken over de vier factoren die bijdragen aan het bereiken van een integrale samenwerking. De factoren ‘face-to-face interactie’, ‘afstemming deskundigheden en manieren van werken’ en ‘het opstellen van gezamenlijke doelen’ komen veelvuldig naar voren. De factor ‘vertrouwen’ is minder duidelijk aanwezig, voornamelijk op het gebied van informatiedeling. Uit de interviews en documentenanalyse blijkt dat er sprake is van een beperkte bereidheid tot volledige informatiedeling. Dit vormt een probleem, aangezien volledige informatiedeling een van de belangrijkste pijlers van de samenwerking via het RIEC is. Op basis van de resultaten en de reflectie op het uitgevoerde onderzoek zijn verschillende aanbevelingen geformuleerd, zowel voor vervolgonderzoek als voor de RIEC’s. De aanbevelingen voor de RIEC’s richten zich op de beperkte aanwezigheid van de factor ‘vertrouwen’ en op twee terugkoppelingseffecten die nog onvoldoende worden nagestreefd door het RIEC als collaboratief platform zijnde. De aanbeveling voor vervolgonderzoek heeft betrekking op de beperkte tijd en toegang van dit onderzoek
Hoe Draagt een Scherper Onderscheid tussen Menselijke en Kunstmatige Intelligentie bij aan de Ethische Implementatie van AI?
No full textDeze scriptie laat zien hoe de problematische vergelijking tussen menselijke en kunstmatige intelligentie het denken over AI beïnvloedt. Zij beargumenteert aan de hand van onder andere het werk van Jerry Fodor en Hubert Dreyfus dat een helder onderscheid tussen beide nodig is voor een effectievere en ethisch verantwoorde toepassing van AI. Met voorbeelden van AI in de zorg wordt aangetoond hoe dat onderscheid de unieke werking en kwaliteiten van AI in het licht brengt, wat voor een meer overzichtelijke en daarmee fundamenteel ethisch verantwoorde inzet van AI kan zorgen
Qué gracioso! Leuk hoor! La partícula hoor en traducciones del español al neerlandés
No full textLa partícula modal hoor es frecuente y típico del neerlandés y no tiene una definición clara, sino algunas funciones pragmáticas. Como hoor no tiene una traducción uno-por-uno, aunque se usa en traducciones neerlandeses de textos españoles, este trabajo intenta averiguar qué elementos del texto fuente incentivan al traductor a usar hoor. Esta investigacion usa un corpus paralelo direccional de novelas traducidas y subtítulos. Las traducciones se analiza cualitativamente, comparando las funciones de hoor con las funciones de los elementos equivalentes en el texto fuente. La investigación muestra que hay equivalentes de hoor en español, los cuales lo son dentro un contexto específico y con una función específica. Los siguientes son equivalentes dinámicos de hoor en español: claro, la repetición, qué, ¿eh?, qué va, pues, ya, hombre, mujer, que sí y que no
Works of art in the sacristy, choir and gallery of Gesù e Maria: a new study of iconography, attribution and dating
No full textAmidst the busy Via del Corso in Rome, the church of Gesù e Maria has been a place of tranquility and faith for centuries. Its origins go back all the way to the Counter Reformation, when the newly-founded Order of Discalced Augustinians bought the property to construct their own convent, church and school in 1615.1 Today, Gesù e Maria still belongs to this very order and the church continues to serve as residence for the religious community, and a formation house for international students from their provinces.
The church, known for its imposing Baroque interior, also houses many impressive works of art. Yet while the artworks in the nave are visible to churchgoers, and therefore described on information signs and in literature, the paintings in the sacristy, choir and gallery are not. The artworks located here are notably under-discussed in the secondary literature, and some have not been mentioned by authors at all. Information has to be cobbled together from small descriptions in books, and is not always as accurate or up-to-date. Sources are often contradictory, and there are clear gaps in the literature that leave much room for new interpretations.
Yet these artworks are no less worthy of being studied. It is with thanks to the hospitality of the community of Gesù e Maria, that this study could be conducted. The opportunity to view and discuss the works in situ has been instrumental, and truly made the artistic significance of these paintings clear to me. While skillfully and thoughtfully produced, they also tell a lot about the art history, building history and religious history of the Discalced Augustinians at the church. This study is, therefore, an attempt to shed light on these artworks. It is intended to be the first comprehensive source to consult with regard to these artworks, finally lifting them from their obscurity. The thesis thus centers around the following question: ‘What artworks are located in the sacristy, choir and gallery of Gesù e Maria, what is known about these artworks in literature, and what more can be said about these artworks based on new findings?’
Each chapter focuses on a separate space, and all the artworks located here are analyzed sequentially. The emphasis lies on iconographic interpretation, attribution and dating, though style is discussed too. The thoroughness of formal descriptions depends on the relevance to the rest of the research, and titles for the artworks have been given based on other authors’ appellations and own interpretation. The study mainly relies on written sources that describe the church and its works of art, such as guide books and inventory lists, and examines them carefully. Therefore, visits to the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the State Archives of Rome have been essential. Foundational to this research moreover has been the booklet ‘La chiesa di Gesù e Maria, storia e arte’ by Ignazio Barbagallo (1914 – 1982), Discalced Augustinian and historian of the church, which was generously gifted to me by the community. It has been last reissued in 2002, and serves as an excellent stepping stone for more thorough research. The most significant findings are then presented in the conclusion of the thesis
How to survive reality: Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia’s search for ontological security
No full textThis thesis aims to explain the foreign policy of Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia in the context of West-Russia relations. It does this through the concept of ontological security, which is defined by the need for actors to preserve a stable Self. A conceptual framework of the Self has been constructed fore state-actors that supports an explanation of small states’ need for ontological security. This framework demonstrates how the Self consists of three mutually changing dimensions: existentialism, relations with others and autobiography. They are underscored by mechanisms that have the ability to (de)stabilise the dimensions: sovereignty, embodiment, external recognition, othering, and role-identities. This thesis shows how fluctuations in Georgian and Armenian foreign policy can be accounted by a feeling of ontological insecurity: a feeling that occurs when an actor simultaneously is unable to uphold its established autobiography, does not take its existence for granted, and changes its relations with others. Conversely, Ukrainian foreign policy shows endurance because of a feeling of ontological security, where the three dimensions of the Self and its underlying mechanisms mutually reinforce each other
Between Presence and Absence: Temporality and the Deconstructed Representation of the Female Body in Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series
No full textThis thesis analyzes how the Silueta series (1973-1980) by feminist Cuban American artist
Ana Mendieta employed forms of temporality to subvert a stable representation of femininity
and the female body in art. In this series, Mendieta performed an imprinting of her body into
nature with several materials, creating a silhouette that remains in the natural environment.
After the performative part she photographed these silhouettes and disseminated the images of
it as “earth-body works”. To analyze the Silueta series’ subversion of a stable meaning as
attached to femininity and the female body, a close reading method is applied in this thesis,
while using feminist deconstructionist theories on gender and performance art. It was found
that gender performativity can be discovered in the series and that different forms of
temporality are used in the series to defer meaning as attached to femininity and the
representation of the female body
Why’d You Bring a Salad?: A Multimodal Analysis of Cultural Referencing in Third Culture Individual Interactions
No full textThis study explores how Third Culture Individuals (TCIs), individuals who lived outside of their home countries during (a section of) their formative years, reference culture and cultural experiences in conversation and what these references accomplish in interaction. Audio and video recordings were made of three sessions of conversation between Dutch TCIs. Six cultural references from these conversations were placed along a continuum of cultural alignment and analyzed using Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (MIA) in order to identify their purposes in the conversation. The analysis reveals that references aligned with us primarily generate affirmation and remembering, we references encourage sharing and mutual recognition, and them references most often result in distancing, occasionally through admiration. These findings suggest that culture for TCIs is not a fixed allegiance to any national culture but an adaptable resource for conversational purposes, enabling affirmation, recognition, and differentiation depending on context
Exploring Rosalie de Graaf; reshaping the dynamics of urban environments
No full textThis thesis explores the spatial and cultural agency of Rosalie de Graaf’s street art, focusing on how her (hyper)realistic murals reshape urban life in Dutch cities. De Graaf, working under the name RoosArt, is a self-taught street artist known for blending realistic technical mastery with a distinctly feminine public persona, strategically navigating a male-dominated scene. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s triad of perceived, conceived, and lived space, and enriched by psychogeography and atmospheric theory, the study combines visual analysis, urban ethnography, and a semi-structured interview with the artist herself to examine how her murals act as more than artistic expressions. They become emotional landmarks and cultural interventions. Centring on three works: See No Color in Zwolle’s Holtenbroek and two historical murals in Doetinchem, the research reveals how her art navigates between institutional frameworks and embedded community presence, reactivating memory, challenging spatial norms, and amplifying overlooked voices. Ultimately, the study shows that De Graaf’s murals transform public walls into powerful spatial narratives, challenging norms, reclaiming histories, and reimagining the lived experience of urban space
Can gestures lend a hand when learning placement event descriptions in L2 Dutch?
No full textL2 learners have to link novel L2 word forms to L1 meaning concepts. L1 meanings can be too specific or general for L2 forms, so semantic reorganisation of L1 meanings is required. This occurs frequently in the field of placement event descriptions, since languages have varying sizes of placement verb inventories. Research has shown that gestures can aid L2 vocabulary acquisition, so the current study investigates if gestures can also facilitate the learning of placement verbs in L2 Dutch. Participants took part in a training session, preceded by a pre-test and followed by a post-test. The training session involved an explanation video, either including or excluding gestures. Contrary to what was expected, the test difference scores of the participants in the gesture condition did not differ significantly from those in the no-gesture condition, suggesting it is trivial whether or not one uses gestures to explain placement verbs in L2 Dutch
The effect of integrated thinking on CSR decoupling and the moderating role of managerial ability
No full textThis study investigates the relationship between integrated thinking and CSR decoupling, defined as the gap between firms' CSR performance and their CSR disclosure. Grounded in neo-institutional theory, systems thinking, and the resource-based view, the research explores whether integrated thinking can serve as a substantive mechanism to reduce CSR decoupling. Additionally, the moderating role of managerial ability is examined. The analysis is based on a sample of 10,526 firm-year observations from 2,278 firms across 61 countries over the period 2013–2022. Using a multilevel mixed-effects regression model, the results indicate a significant negative association between integrated thinking and CSR decoupling, suggesting that firms with a higher level of integrated thinking are more likely to align their CSR disclosure with actual CSR performance. However, no significant moderating effect of managerial ability was found. These findings contribute to the literature by providing empirical evidence for the potential of integrated thinking to mitigate symbolic CSR practices and promote more authentic corporate sustainability communication