Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Municipal amalgamations in the Netherlands; 2 Local identities conceptualised: from fixed facts to flexible discourses; 2.1 Local identities as fixed facts with physical roots; 2.2 The social construction of identities; 2.3 Contingent communities and identities; 2.4 The ideal typical contrast between thick and thin spatial identities; 2.5 Identity gaps between administrations and populations; 2.6 Spatial identities and the institutionalisation of spaces
2.7 The layering of spatial identities2.8 Identity and legitimacy: de-institutionalisation and the formation of resistance identities; 2.9 Identities and scale: primary and secondary identities; 3 Measuring local identity; 3.1 Goeree-Overflakkee; 3.2 Katwijk; 3.3 Interviews; 4 Local identities analysed: change for the better or the worse; 4.1 Local identity and community values; 4.2 Heritage and the different views on the future; 4.3 Types of identification; 4.4 Established local communities and migration; 4.5 Scale strategies in local politics; 4.6 New migrants in old villages
4.7 Urban migrants in Katwijk Noord4.8 Anti-urbanism and local identity; 4.9 The loss of identity as a key element in identity discourses; 4.10 Traditionalist and modernist identity discourses; 5 Municipal amalgamation and changing local identities on Goeree-Overflakkee; 5.1 An emerging local resistance identity before amalgamation; 5.2 The fading local resistance identity after amalgamation; 5.3 A thin island identity formulated by local entrepreneurs; 5.4 The unification of the local entrepreneurs
5.5 Sunday rest: the accommodation of different local identities in an amalgamated municipality6 Katwijk: "A city which has remained a village"; 6.1 Katwijk and the ring of Dutch cities; 6.2 The amalgamation of Katwijk and the fear of neighbouring Leiden; 6.3 After amalgamation: "own village first"; 6.4 Neighbourhood councils; 6.5 Local Orange associations: one nation, four villages; 6.6 The history of the Orange associations in Katwijk; 6.7 The four different local Orange associations; 6.8 The unity and diversity in Katwijk's identities; 7 Conclusion: the divergent use of local identities
7.1 The changing use of local and regional identities compared7.2 The fragile shield of secondary identities protecting primary identities; 7.3 Three different archetypes of using local identities; Index
