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Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.

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The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey

Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director

The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial. There has been a 700% increase in downloads from 2019 when content was paywalled to 2022. We have seen a 200% increase by the end of 2022 from the end of 2020.

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Notes on the Political Capitalization of Anguish and Hope in Argentina (and the American Southern-Cone)

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Notes on the Political Capitalization of Anguish and Hope in Argentina (and the American Southern-Cone)

Menara Guizardi

In recent work, several authors in anthropology have analyzed how the extreme right is being configured and acquiring a considerable pull on the mainstream (see: Kalb, 2023a; Semán & Wilkis, 2023). I want to take their reflections further and focus on the uncomfortable question about the role of “traditional” political forces in paving the way for the emergence of this neofascism. I do this from a particular vantage point in Argentina and the Southern-Cone of the Americas.

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The Power of the Story

Featured Series

Catastrophes in Context

Editors:

Roberto E. Barrios, University of New Orleans
Crystal Felima, University of Kentucky
Mark Schuller, Northern Illinois University

Catastrophes in Context aims to bring critical attention to the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that create disasters, out of natural hazards or political events, and that shape the responses. Combining long-term ethnographic fieldwork typical of anthropology and increasingly adopted in similar social science disciplines such as geography and sociology with a comparative frame that enlightens global structures and policy frameworks, Catastrophes in Context includes monographs and edited volumes that bring critical scrutiny to the multiple dimensions of specific disasters and important policy/practice questions for the field of disaster research and management

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John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937

The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

Edited with an Introduction by Oliver Lubrich

Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy’s tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism.

In 1937, while still a student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his close friend and traveling companion, Lem Billings. On this journey he began to keep a diary, which is reproduced here in full and provides an unadulterated account of his thoughts and feelings. Superficially, it presents a picture of two young men enjoying their summer, sightseeing, going to the movies, bars and night clubs; but behind this we find, in Kennedy’s political observations and encounters, the looming shadow of Nazism.

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EnviroSociety

Rising from the Ashes: Rural Communities in Portugal’s Fiery Landscapes

Filipa Soares, Luísa Schmidt, & Ana Delicado. Instituto de Ciências

On June 17th, 2017, Ferraria de São João (hereafter Ferraria), a small-sized village in central Portugal remotely located at the top of a hill, was encircled by flames. The two available fire engines, one at each end of the village, were unable to refill with water at some point. There were no helicopters either. The tragedy, as the few residents would come to realise the morning after, was of a regional scale. Left to their own devices, the unprepared local population fought the flames by themselves with what they had at hand: garden hoses, water buckets, branches.

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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Open Access

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Special Issue

Materialities of Age and Ageing. Guest Editors: Cordula Endter, Anamaria Depner and Anna Wanka

Against the backdrop of demographic change and its effects on our everyday lives, social and cultural anthropology is increasingly paying attention to the specific ways in which people grow old(er). Anthropological ageing research thereby places the subject at the centre, aiming to understand the manifold experiences of old(er) age as a subjective process, as identity and as practice (Brosius and Mandoki 2020; Götz and Rau 2017). These experiences of one's own or other peoples’ age(ing) are significantly shaped by materialities, such as ageing bodies, ‘age-appropriate’ clothing, furniture, ‘age-friendly’ spaces, and technological devices such as assistive technology (Laviolette and Hanson 2007).

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New Paperbacks

Birds of Passage
August 2023

Birds of Passage

Hunting and Conservation in Malta

Falzon, M.-A.
Being Bedouin Around Petra
August 2023

Being Bedouin Around Petra

Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

Bille, M.
Testimonies of Resistance
August 2023

Testimonies of Resistance

Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
August 2023

Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)
Deadly Contradictions
August 2023

Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring

Reyna, S. P.
Remapping Knowledge
August 2023

Remapping Knowledge

Intercultural Studies for a Global Age

Spariosu, Mihai I.
Peripheries at the Centre
August 2023

Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Venken, M.
Beyond the Social Contract
August 2023

Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)
Shakespeare and Social Engagement
August 2023

Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)
Jaguars of the Dawn
September 2023

Jaguars of the Dawn

Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini, E.
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
September 2023

Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
Love, Loyalty and Deceit
September 2023

Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.
Mary Douglas
September 2023

Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.
Alfred Cort Haddon
September 2023

Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.
Politics of Personal Information, The
September 2023

The Politics of Personal Information

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

Frohman, L.
German Division as Shared Experience
September 2023

German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)
Bigger Fish to Fry
September 2023

Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

Sutton, D. E.
Moral Economy at Work
September 2023

Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
Friendship without Borders
September 2023

Friendship without Borders

Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany

Leask, P.

Open Access Titles

Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange, An

An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders

Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders

Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines

Leutloff-Grandits, C.
Entertaining German Culture

Entertaining German Culture

Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)
Beyond the Social Contract

Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)
Temple Tracks

Temple Tracks

Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Sinha, V.
Once Upon a Time is Now

Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.
Cryptopolitics

Cryptopolitics

Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)
Visions of Marriage

Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020

Chiu, H.-C.
From Village Commons to Public Goods

From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Trémon, A.-C.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Knudsen, S. (ed)
Integrating Strangers

Integrating Strangers

Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

Ménard, A.
Girl in the Pandemic, The

The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Mitchell, C. & Smith, A. (eds)
Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

de Groot, T.
Power of the Story, The

The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)
Making Multiple Babies

Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.
Terrorism and the Pandemic

Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States

Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States

War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest

Keyel, J.
This Land Is Not For Sale

This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)
Sentient Ecologies

Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)
Thinking Europe

Thinking Europe

A History of the European Idea since 1800

Andrén, M.
Living on a Time Bomb

Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, S.
Managing Sacralities

Managing Sacralities

Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Hemel, E. van den, Salemink†, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)
Risky Futures

Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)
Return of Polyandry, The

The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Fjeld, H. E.
Tangled Mobilities

Tangled Mobilities

Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)

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