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As bats adapt to anthropogenic environmental change they increasingly interact with humans and inhabit human infrastructure. This article addresses the challenge of learning to live with synanthropic bats. Building on ideas from multispecies studies, we explore the practices and accommodations that coproduce meaningful human-bat cohabitation in domestic space. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in the Netherlands, we find that domestic space is remade in small but significant ways in response to bats. The aim of our interviewees is to ensure minimal interference between human and bat domestic geographies: intimacy can be spatialized at the domestic scale but is best done in ways that maintain degrees of tolerance. Rather than help bats in general, much care-work centres around supporting the inter-generational reproductive work of bats.This sequential sense of ethical time certainly shifts conservation from a done to mode, and recasts home-dwellers as participants in the story of bat survival and intergenerational nourishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public libraries are more than information providers; they increasingly serve as key social infrastructures. Financial pressures, decreasing membership and digitalisation require libraries to reinvent themselves as primarily spaces of an encounter. This paper focuses on the retooling of small public libraries in the Netherlands as social infrastructure and the formal and informal library practices ('infrastructuring') that are required for the library to function as space of encounter. The paper reports on an in-depth, single-case study based on 15 years of volunteering, participant observations, repeated interviews with staff and informal conversations with patrons. By examining the multi-purposed features of a single site, we illustrate how the library, as an exemplary public space, is being retooled by both staff and patrons. While encounters mostly seem to occur within rather than between groups, there are many meaningful acts of kindness between different people. Though the library is undeniably a social infrastructure, the paper also shows how difficult it is to document, let alone practice this social function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aging populations in Western Europe are increasingly culturally diverse, which raises the question how current care landscapes can meet differentiated care needs. Our study focuses on one possible response: culturally-specific day-care centres for older migrants. By drawing upon practice theory, the paper explores the potential of such centres to shape and be shaped by practices in the wider care landscape. Extensive participant observation and interviews with older clients, managers and professionals, allowed us to zoom in on the 'doing of care' in culturally-specific day-care centres in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. To zoom out on the wider care landscape, we conducted interviews with municipal policy advisors and a day-care coordinator, and engaged in further participant organisation in city-wide events on older migrants and cultural diversity. We find that culturally-specific day-care centres offer staff the opportunity to transform the practice of care. The day-care centres become spaces of interpretation and translation, through which staff connects their clients to other actors in the landscape, such as the municipality and other care providers. Although interpretations and negotiations within culturally-specific care spaces create some creative tension, these spaces potentially increase the responsiveness to cultural diversity of care practices in the care landscape of Nijmegen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current understandings of sexualized spaces do not encompass bisexuality. In response, I use Schatzki's theory of practice to identify bisexual practices and bisexual spaces. On the basis of 31 interviews with bisexual people (18–35 years old) in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, both located in the Netherlands, I contend that creating bisexual displays is difficult for both bisexuals and others as understandings of bisexual doings, behaviour and actions are lacking. Furthermore, bisexual participants find it often not appropriate or relevant to disclose their bisexuality in everyday practices as teleoaffective structures of everyday practices often render sex, sexuality and relationships irrelevant. Nevertheless, people do disclose their bisexuality in conversations when they feel that it is appropriate and serves a purpose and therefore create spaces with a bisexual appearance. This conceptualization of bisexual spaces as based on bisexual appearances emphasizes the temporal and local character of these sexual(ized) spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our study, we adopt a comparative-longitudinal perspective on the gender division of housework before and after the birth of the first child, exploiting the first two waves of the Gender and Generation Survey and comparing three countries belonging to different gender and welfare regimes (i.e. Bulgaria, France and the Netherlands). We find that childrearing everywhere triggers a re-traditionalisation, generating a more inegalitarian gender division of housework, yet with interesting differences across countries. Fixed-effect regression analyses of the pooled data show that changes when becoming parents are less pronounced in France with respect to Bulgaria and the Netherlands, more pronounced when she is low-educated. Moreover, when countries are analysed separately, it emerges that it is only in the Netherlands that traditionalisation around first childbirth is significantly lower in couples where the woman is middle- and high-educated compared to those where she is low-educated. Economic, cultural and institutional contexts do matter. Traditionalisation and within-couples polarisation is weaker in contexts where non-traditional attitudes are widespread, social policies are more defamilialising and more explicitly addressed also to men, and where part-time is not the main reconciliation strategy, as in France. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how mosque spaces become everyday sites of ethno-religious subjectivation for immigrants and citizens originating from Turkey in the Netherlands. I argue that the symbolic and material constructions of mosques as simultaneously moral and moralizing spaces undergird the production of ethno-religious subjectivities through mosque-centered everyday practices. The articulation of Muslimness to Turkishness at mosques in culturally specific and gendered ways is crucial for the formation of a particular modality of the Turkish–Dutch self as moral subject. The ensuing incorporation of practices and activities that are deemed ‘secular,’ i.e. ‘cultural’ or ‘recreational’ to mosque services engenders a creative tension between the sacred and profane conceptions of mosque space. Mosque administrators and their congregations concur that recreational activities and quotidian accessibility to mosques are essential to the long term survival of Turkish–Dutch alterity, for mosques are spaces where children and youth are exposed to the performances of Turkish-Islamic morality and subjected to collective social control. However, the diversification of mosque services does not always sit comfortably with the meaning and use of mosques as sacred sites proper within a secularized framework. A creative tension between mosques as serene and pure spaces of the sacred and mosques as impure and immoral spaces of the everyday arises, as a result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines how residents of neotraditional neighbourhoods in the Netherlands socially construct a ‘classed’ place identity and what role the historicised architecture plays within that process. Given that place identity is constructed through social and cultural practices, the paper argues that residents' consumption of historicised environment is bound up with drawing symbolic boundaries that have been explored here by analysing residents' narratives. Three prominent types of narratives were found: (1) residents' locational choice, (2) their aesthetic judgement of the residential environment and (3) the way they use it. Through these layered narratives, all interviewees appear to use historicised aesthetics to classify themselves as part of a valued social category. However, the way of boundary drawing took several forms, based either on fostering moral judgements of social behaviour accompanied by sophisticated efforts to keep neighbourhoods' historicised image unchanged, or by conducting cultural practices shared with fellow residents by which ‘the other’ living outside the neighbourhood is ‘bracketed out’ symbolically and socially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Combining work and family life is central to women's participation in the labour market. Work-life balance has been a key objective of UK and Dutch policy since the 1990s, but policies created at the national level do not always connect with the day to day experiences of women juggling caring and domestic responsibilities with paid work. Using qualitative data from a European Social Fund Objective 3 project the paper explores women's lived realities of combining work and family life in the UK in comparison to the Netherlands as a possible 'best practices' model. We argue that women in both countries experience work-life balance as an ongoing process, continually negotiating the boundaries of work and family, and that there needs to be a more sophisticated appreciation of the differing needs of working parents. Whilst policy initiatives can be effective in helping women to reconcile dual roles, many women in both the UK and the Netherlands still resolve these issues at the individual or personal level and feel that policy has not impacted on their lives in any tangible way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of housing on many aspects of inhabitants' health has been recognized and enshrined in legislation since the late 19th century in many countries. The improved housing quality in many European countries between 1900 and 1940 contributed immensely to reducing the burden of disease. However, no dwelling is without health hazards. In the past, health hazards tended to be diagnosed for individual houses. An alternative approach is provided that studies the total housing stock to categorize and identify those parts of the stock at highest risk. This can be used to inform policy and strategy on prevention and remediation of specific health hazards. The key research question is: how can housing stock be categorized on the basis of health hazards? A method for the categorization of the housing stock is presented. The history of housing standards and construction methods in the Netherlands along with expert health knowledge based on individual dwellings is used to identify categories with specific hazards. Building type, construction, tenure and age band are important parameters for categorization. A top-down argument is presented, leading to the identification of key issues for public health policies for the housing stock as a whole. L'incidence du logement sur de nombreux aspects de la sante des habitants est reconnue et integree a la legislation depuis la fin du 19eme siecle dans de nombreux pays. L'amelioration de la qualite des logements dans de nombreux pays europeens entre 1900 et 1940 a considerablement contribue a la reduction du poids des maladies. Neanmoins, aucun logement n'est depourvu de risques pour la sante. Par le passe, les risques pour la sante ont eu tendance a etre diagnostiques pour des maisons individuelles. Une autre approche est proposee qui etudie le parc total de logements afin de classer par categories et d'identifier les parties de ce parc qui presentent le plus de risques. Cette approche peut etre utilisee pour influencer les politiques et les strategies destinees a prevenir et remedier a des risques sanitaires particuliers. La question-cle qui se pose a la recherche est: comment le parc de logements peut-il etre categorise en fonction des risques pour la sante? Une methode permettant de classer par categories le parc de logements est presentee. L'histoire des normes relatives au logement et des methodes de construction aux Pays-Bas, ainsi que les connaissances d'expert acquises en matiere de sante et basees sur les logements individuels, sont utilisees pour identifier les categories presentant des risques particuliers. Le type de batiment, la construction, le mode d'occupation des logements et la tranche d'age sont des parametres importants de categorisation. Un raisonnement descendant est presente, conduisant a l'identification des principaux problemes auxquels se trouvent confrontees les politiques publiques de sante concernant le parc bati dans son ensemble. Mots cles: parc bati, logements, strategie basee sur des donnees probantes, risque pour la sante, politique du logement, parc de logements, sante publique, Pays-Bas [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The choice between replacement and life cycle extension of existing buildings implies a vital but very difficult decision, involving a wide range of aspects and affecting contradictory and often conflicting interests. Originally, building quality and public health played a decisive role in improvement of the housing stock, mainly by slum clearance. More recently, functional and economic considerations tend to dominate the decision-making, resulting in increasing demolition and demolition waste. Although environmental aspects (e.g. energy consumption and building waste) are of growing importance, sustainability does not seem to be a major aspect in the choice between demolition and life cycle extension until now. To address the questions of what is more sustainable: replacement or life cycle extension, the decision-making processes surrounding housing demolition in the Netherlands are analysed and a conceptual framework is created. Sustainability has the potential to be a major criterion in housing stock management and, in particular, on the decision processes about dwelling replacement or life cycle extension. From that point of view, life cycle extension is often a better solution than demolition. Le choix entre le remplacement de batiments existants et la prolongation de leur cycle de vie implique une decision cruciale, mais tres difficile, portant sur des aspects tres divers et affectant des interets contradictoires et souvent conflictuels. A l'origine, la qualite des batiments et la sante publique jouaient un role decisif dans l'amelioration du parc de logements, principalement par l'amenagement des quartiers insalubres. Plus recemment, les considerations fonctionnelles et economiques tendent a dominer le processus de prise de decision, ce qui entraine un accroissement des demolitions et des dechets de demolition. Bien que les aspects environnementaux (par ex. consommation d'energie et dechets de batiments) prennent une importance croissante, la durabilite ne semble pas etre, jusqu'a present, un aspect essentiel dans le choix entre demolition et prolongation du cycle de vie. Afin de traiter la question de savoir ce qui est le plus durable - le remplacement ou la prolongation du cycle de vie - les processus de prise de decision entourant la demolition de logements aux Pays-Bas sont analyses et un cadre conceptuel est cree. La durabilite pourrait bien devenir un critere essentiel dans la gestion des parcs de logements et, en particulier, dans les processus de prise de decision relatifs au remplacement des logements ou a la prolongation de leur cycle de vie. De ce point de vue, la prolongation du cycle de vie est souvent une solution meilleure que la demolition. Mots cles: parc bati, demolition, logements, gestion des logements, cycle de vie, motivations, politiques publiques, temps, Pays-Bas [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Limtanakool N., Schwanen T. and Dijst M. Developments in the Dutch urban system on the basis of flows, Regional Studies. In this study, the 1992, 1995, 1999, and 2002 Netherlands National Travel Surveys are employed to examine the change in the configuration of the urban system on the basis of commute and leisure flows between 23 daily urban systems (DUSs). The results for commuting flows provide some evidence of smaller differences in the importance of DUSs in the system over the ten-year period in the Dutch urban system. Leisure flows, however, do not reveal clear evidence of such development. It is found that the development process occurs very slowly and the developments between DUSs in close proximity to one another take place at a faster pace than between those located further away... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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VAN DER LAAN L. (1992) Structural determinants of spatial labour markets: a case study of the Netherlands, Reg. Studies 26, 485–498. This research analyses the causal structure of the regional differentiation of labour markets in The Netherlands in the period 1975–85. A heterodox model is constructed with the help of various (economic) labour market theories. Based on a latent variable partial least squares model, the analysis shows the relatively minor effect of regulation variables on the labour market and the importance of both the socio-economic environment and the production process. It also shows the strong integration of demand, supply and commuting. Total incoming and outgoing migration, though, showed up to be unimportant for the regional differentiation of labour markets. The research points to a continuing regional disequilibrium of demand and supply. In relation to government policies, this is based on the decreasing mobility of capital to the lagging regions, an increase of the importance of qualitative labour market characteristics and hysteresis connected with insider/outsider positions of parts of the labour supply. VAN DER LAAN L. (1992) Les déterminants structurels des marchés du travail géographiques: cas d'étude des Pays-Bas, Reg. Studies 26, 485–498. La recherche comporte une analyse de la structure causale de la différentiation régionale des marches du travail aux Pays-Bas sur la période de 1975 a 1985. Un modele hétérodoxe est construit a l'aide de diverses theories économiques concernant le marché du travail. A partir d'une methode partielle des moindres carrées dite ‘latent variable’, l'analyse démontre l'effet relative-ment secondaire des variables de réglementation sur le marche du travail et l'importance du milieu socio-economique et des modes de production. Elle montre aussi l'integration considerable de la demande, de l'offre et des trajets journaliers. Toujours est-il que la migration globale positive et négative s'est avérée peu imporante pour la differenciation regionale des marches du travail. La recherche laisse voir un déséquilibre regional continu de la demande et de l'offre. Egalement par rapport aux politiques du gouvernement, cela s'explique par la mobilite reduite du capital à destination des régions défavorisées, l'importance accrue de la qualité de la main-d'oeuvre, et l'hystérése liée aux positions internes/externes des parties de l'offre de travail. VAN DER LAAN L. (1992) Strukturelle Determinanten räumlicher Arbeitsmärkte: eine Studie des Falls der Nieder-lande, Reg. Studies 26, 485–498. Diese Untersuchung analysiert die Kausalstruktur regionaler Differenzierung von Arbeitsmarkten in den Niederlanden im Zeitraum 1975–1985. Mit Hilfe verschiedener (wirtschaftlicher) Stel-lenmarkttheorien wird ein heterodoxes Modell konstruiert. Die auf einem ‘latent variable partial least squares’ Modell beruhende Analyse zeigt sowohl die verhaltnismassig geringe Wirkung von Vorschriftenvariablen auf den Arbeitsmarkt als auch die Bedeutung der sozio-ökonomis-chen Umgebung und des Produktionsprozesses auf. Zugleich weist sie auf die enge Verknüpfung von Angebot, Nachfrage und Pendlerverkehr hin. Die Gesamtheit der Einwanderung und Auswanderung erwies sich jedoch als unbedeutend fur die regionale Differenzierung des Arbeitsmarkts. Die Untersuchung deutet einen anhaltenden Mangel regionalen Gleichgewichts von Angebot und Nachfrage an. Dies beruht, auch in Bezug auf die Bestrebungen der Regierung, auf der nachlassenden Beweglichkeit von Kapital in Richtung der hin-terherhinkenden Regionen, auf der zunehmenden Bedeutung qualitativer Eigenschaften des Arbeitsmarkts und auf Hysterese in Verbindung mit Positionen Eingeweihter/Aussenstehender seitens mancher Erwerbstätiger. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Van Dijk J. and Folmer H. (1985) Entry of the unemployed into employment: theory, methodology and Dutch experience, Reg. Studies 19, 243–256. This study examines the entry probabilities of the unemployed into the employed labour force. The personal characteristics (age, work experience, education and family status) and the regional characteristics (regional unemployment and average regional income) are theoretically derived as the determinants of the entry probabilities. The theoretical model is empirically tested with data from the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1979 by means of maximum likelihood logit analysis. The results closely conform to the theoretical expectations. On the basis of the analysis some conclusions for labour market policy are formulated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bartels C. P. A. and Van Duijn J. J. (1984) Implementing regional economic policy: an analysis of economic and political influences in the Netherlands, Reg. Studies 18, 1–11. The purpose of this paper is to extend our understanding of government behaviour in the area of regional economic policy, in the case of the Netherlands. It investigates the role of economic and political factors in determining changes in the implementation of regional economic policy. It is concluded that political circumstances did not play any discernable role in regional policy making. The impact of macro-economic conditions on regional policy has a long-term and a short-term component. As far as the short term is concerned, fluctuations in actual expenditure suggest a pro-cyclical effect of regional policy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]