AUP Dissertation Series
The Costs and Cost-effectiveness of Tuberculosis Control
1st Edition
By Anna Vassall
October 01, 2025
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of ill-health and death in low and middle income countries. Tuberculosis control is essential for achieving the Millennium Development Goals relating to health by 2015. However, despite efforts made to expand tuberculosis control over the past decades, tuberculosis ...
Urban Livelihoods, Institutions and Inclusive Governance in Nairobi: 'Spaces' and their Impacts on Quality of Life, Influence and Political Rights
1st Edition
By Bob Hendriks
October 01, 2025
This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty reduction and improvement of quality of life for ...
Facing Epistemic Uncertainty: Characteristics, possibilities, and limitations of a dynamic discursive approach to philosophy of education
1st Edition
By Roel van Goor
September 25, 2012
Increasing doubts over the narratives that traditionally served to legitimize the tasks and possibilities of societal institutions – such as science – have also called into question the significance of philosophy to educational thinking. Related debates largely concern epistemological issues, i.e. ...
The Added Value of Auditing in a Non-Mandatory Environment
1st Edition
By Hans Duits
June 14, 2012
What is the ‘raison d’être’ of auditing? Does auditing only exist by the grace of the legislator? Or does auditing fulfill other needs in contemporary society? For many companies, auditing has been made mandatory. This is possibly one of the reasons why researchers to date have given limited ...
Space in Archaic Greek Lyric: City, Countryside and Sea
1st Edition
By Jo Heirman
January 24, 2012
From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a ‘hot topic’ in literary studies. This thesis contributes to the spatial turn by focusing on space in archaic Greek lyric (7th–5th c bc). A theoretical framework inspired by narratology, phenomenology and metaphor theory is applied to ...
Something for Everyone?: Changes and Choices in the Ethno-Party Scene in Urban Nightlife
1st Edition
By Simone Boogaarts
February 03, 2011
The urban population is becoming increasingly diverse and growing (ethnic) diversity is having a singular effect on nightlife in Dutch cities. By studying the motivation behind and nightlife choices of the young people who participate in ethno-party scenes, Boogaarts-de Bruin investigates how the ...
Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Religion, Judicial Practice
1st Edition
By Gunnar Weimann
December 17, 2010
In 2000 and 2001, twelve northern states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria introduced Islamic criminal law as one of a number of measures aiming at “reintroducing the shari‘a.” Immediately after its adoption, defendants were sentenced to death by stoning or to amputation of the hand. Apart from a ...
Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine
1st Edition
By Max Bader
June 03, 2010
As part of a wider democracy promotion effort, political parties in Georgia and Ukraine, as in most other post-communist states, have received assistance from a number of non-governmental but governmentfunded western organizations for most of the post-communist period. This assistance, however, has...
Chinese New Migrants in Suriname: The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing
1st Edition
By Paul Tjon Sie Fat
September 08, 2009
This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ...
Working Gendered Boundaries: Temporary Migration Experiences of Bangladeshi Women in the Malaysian Export Industry from a Multi-Sited Perspective
1st Edition
By Anja Rudnick
January 14, 2009
This study explores the short term migration of Bangladeshi women to Malaysia to work inlabour intensive, export oriented factories, and considers the consequences of their decisionto migrate.While international migration is a much discussed issue, so far little attention has been given to the vast...
Out of Place?: Emotional Ties to the Neighbourhood in Urban Renewal in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Peter van der Graaf
December 23, 2008
In transforming deprived areas into great places to live much attention has been given to the physical, social and economical aspects of deprivation. However, little is known about the relationship between deprivation and emotional ties: What makes residents in deprived areas feel at home in their ...
Multi - Girl - Culture: An Ethnography of Doing Identity
1st Edition
By Linda Duits
May 29, 2008
In this highly readable book, Linda Duits investigates girl culture in the Dutch multicultural society. Her ethnographic account provides a thick description of life at school, still the most prominent setting foor todays youth. She followed young girls of diverse ethnic backgrounds in their ...