International book chapters
2013
2011
One Nation without God? Post-Christian Cultural Conflict in the Netherlands
Willem de Koster, Peter Achterberg, Dick Houtman & Jeroen van der Waal
In: Paradoxes of Individualization. Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity, eds. Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers & Willem de Koster
Farnham: Ashgate.
2009
Post-Industrialization and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities: The Effects of Urban Job Opportunities and Spatial Segregation
Jeroen van der Waal & Jack Burgers
In: City in Sight. Dutch Dealings with Urban Change, eds. Jan Willem
Duyvendak, Frank Hendriks & Mies van Niekerk
Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press
In this contribution we aim at analyzing the effects of both urban labor markets and spatial segregation on the ethnocentrism of natives¹. In particular, we will try to establish what the relative effects are of labor-market opportunities and spatial segregation on ethnocentrism concerning the distribution of scarce economic resources. Is it first and foremost rooted in job competition? Or is it primarily related to meeting people of different ethnic backgrounds in the everyday life of urban neighborhoods and districts? Or is there maybe a combined effect of these two spheres?
2008
Globalizing Urban Economies and Social Inequality: An Empirical Assessment: The Case of Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Jack Burgers & Jeroen van der Waal
In: Cities Between
Competitiveness and Cohesion. Discourses, Realities and Implementation,
eds. Peter Ache, Hans Thor Andersen, Thomas Maloutas, Mike Raco & Tuna
Tasan-Kok
Dordrecht: Springer
One of the key arguments in the grand narratives on globalization is that of time-space compression. Reflecting the discussion on the relations between globalization and inequality, this chapter argues that the most important local effect of the immensely increased mobility has been a process of fragmentation of cities. The chapter will focus on an empirical background on the changing international division of labour, which caused the deindustrialization of the advanced economies and consequently put the Keynesian welfare-state under heavy pressure; the spectacular growth in and use of communications technology, especially the internet; and the rapidly growing international mobility of people, both in the form of long distance migration and of international tourism. The chapter will elaborate the notion of the fragmentation of cities, using illustrations from the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
A Decline in Class Voting? Class Voting and Cultural Voting in the Postwar Era (1956-1990)
Dick Houtman, Peter Achterberg, Anton Derks & Jeroen Van der Waal
In:
Farewell to the Leftist Working Class, eds. Dick Houtman, Peter
Achterberg & Anton Derks
New Brunswick: Transaction