De lokale overheid betrekt burgers steeds vaker bij de ontwikkeling en uitvoering van beleid. Burgers worden gevraagd mee te denken over uiteenlopende onderwerpen, waaronder over veranderingen in hun directe leefomgeving. Met burgerparticipatie beoogt de overheid bij te dragen aan kwalitatief betere …

Articles by Dutch researcher of new media, co-founder of the Institute of Network Cultures and professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam Geert Lovink, first brought together especially for Russian readers. In the book, the author analyzes both the simplest cultural techniques - from …

The community renewable energy is often seen as the way to address the societal challenge of energy transition. Many scholars foresee a key role for community energy in accelerating of the energy transition from fossil to renewable energy sources. For example, some authors investigated the transformative …

Though there are different interpretations in the scholarly literature of what a social learning is: whether it is an individual, organisational, or collective process. For example, Freeman (2007), in his study on policy change in the public health sector, conceptualised collective learning of public …

In recent years, the threat of Islamic terrorism became visible in several European countries. The terrorist attacks that occurred in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, etc. shocked the European society. Especially the phenomenon of home-grown terrorists, individuals who radicalised in European countries, …

This chapter focuses on the construction of pueblo ‘people’ and patria ‘homeland’ in the Spanish discourse of Podemos and the party’s relation to la gente ‘the people’ between June 2016 and its second political conference, Vistalegre II (February 2017). The discursive analysis focuses on figures of speech, …

Introduction F-ACT is a flexible version of Assertive Community Treatment to deliver care in a changing intensity depending on needs of individuals with severe mental illnesses (Van Veldhuizen, 2007). In 2016 a number of the FACT-teams in the Dutch region of Utrecht moved to locations in neighborhoods …

Om te kunnen participeren draag je als burger een grote verantwoordelijkheid waarbij structuur, context en een vorm van discipline nodig is. Bij verwarde personen kunnen deze factoren ontbreken met het gevolg dat ze met de politie in aanraking komen. De hulpverlening komt pas aan bod wanneer iemand zelf …

In leaving the more traditional territories of the concert performance for broader societal contexts, professional musicians increasingly devise music in closer collaboration with their audience rather than present it on a stage. Although the interest for such forms of devising co-creative musicking …

Aanleiding ‘’Aantal gebroken heupen bij ouderen in vijf jaar met 12 procent gestegen’’, zo luidt de titel van een recent nieuwsartikel van nu.nl. Als gevolg van de vergrijzing kwamen 102 duizend 65-plussers in 2017 op de spoedeisende hulp na een valincident. Het in een sociaal isolement raken door angst …