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By Philip Cavendish
This excerpt was adapted from The Men with the Movie Camera The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s by Philip Cavendish, now available in paperback.
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We are thrilled to announce that Berghahn Books has been shortlisted for The British Book Industry Awards. We are in excellent company for the Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year Award alongside fellow nominees Bright Red Publishing, How2become, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Policy Press, and Rowman & Littlefield International.
From The Bookseller’s website:
The British Book Industry Awards will celebrate the greatness of the British book trade and the people behind it – the best books, the best writers, the best bookshops, the best publishers – from industry greats to those starting out. Building on the success and legacy of The Bookseller Industry Awards (the trade “Nibbies”), 2016 will mark the first step, and a step-change, in the way the book trade presents itself to itself and to the wider world.
The winners will be announced 9th May 2016. Stay tuned!
by Ines Hasselberg, University of Oxford
On the 14th of April of 2010, I was approached by J. who had come across my doctoral research webpage when she was desperately searching the net in an attempt to find a way to keep her husband in the UK. My doctoral research was centred on deportation from the UK. What effect do British policies of deportation have on those facing deportation and their families? What strategies are devised to cope with and react to deportation? In what ways does deportability influence one’s sense of justice, security and self, and how does that translate into everyday life? Those were the questions I wanted to, and did, discuss.
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We’re pleased to announce that Caryn Berg has been appointed as the first archaeology editor for Berghahn Books. For the past ten years, she was the archaeology editor for Left Coast Press, which was recently sold to Taylor and Francis. She has also worked as an educator and consulting archaeologist. Dr. Berg, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, will work remotely from her home outside Denver.
“Caryn came to us warmly recommended by Mitch Allen, founder of Left Coast Press, with whom she built up one of the most highly regarded archaeology lists,” Publisher Marion Berghahn said. “This will add for us a new and exciting subject to our list.”
Some of the many titles Dr. Berg acquired for Left Coast Press include The National Historic Preservation Act: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Kimball M Banks and Ann M. Scott, Digging Atari, by Andrew Reinhard, Richard Rothaus, and William Caraher and Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers, edited by Mark W. Allen and Terry L. Jones.
Dr. Berg’s diverse experience informs her interest in the applications of archaeology in academia, private industry, museums, and government. In her new role with Berghahn Books, Dr. Berg will acquire books that amplify a wide range of practical archaeology methodology, theory, and case studies that represent research from around the world. She plans to attend several academic conferences for the firm including the Society for American Archaeology, the Society for Historical Archaeology, and the World Archaeological Congress.
“There is a need for a broad range of archaeological books that focus on methods, theoretical approaches, as well as case studies describing the results of research around the globe,” Dr. Berg said. “With Berghahn Books, I will seek to meet the book needs of this wide range of archaeologists while still maintaining the scholarly standards set by the firm.”
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture
Volume 21, Issue 2
This is a special issue on the Diverse Lineages of Existentialism conference held in St. Louis from June 19 to 21, 2014. This conference featured a number of panels devoted to the work of eminent Sartre scholars: Ronald Aronson, David Detmer, Thomas R. Flynn and Ronald Santoni. We are pleased to present articles based on the papers presented at those panels in this issue.
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Stephen Gudeman is a Series Editor for Berghahn’s Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy Series. Below, he answers our questions about his work.
Working with Chris Hann, you have started a new Series with Berghahn Books exploring the connection between economics and anthropology: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. Can you explain what we may learn covering this ground? How can anthropology help the study of economics, which is generally a quantitative discipline?
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by Anders Hellström
Anders Hellström is the author of Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties. Read the introduction for free here.
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The aim of this special issue is to bring a critical discussion of affect into debate with the anthropology of the state as a way of working toward a more coherent, ethnographically grounded exploration of affect in political life.
Journeys – The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing
This issue is composed of articles on a range of topics related to tourism and travel writing. It also includes a conference review and a book reviews section.
This special issue is titled “Policy innovation, regional integration and sustainable democracy building: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as challenges and vehicles.” This issue presents articles that discuss the added value of regions to sustainable development strategies. It discusses development processes and governance both within and between regions. In doing so, it examines how both regionalism and interregionalism affect sustainable development in broader political contexts.
This issue includes articles on a range of topics.
This special issue looks at the rise of Green Politics in Germany.
The articles in this special issue focus on portrayals of the First World War in comics and cartoons.
by Nicholas Chare & Dominic Williams
Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams are the authors of Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz and recently published an article about the book on Slate’s blog, The Vault.
The Hungarian director László Nemes was moved by writings known as the Scrolls of Auschwitz to create the award-winning film Son of Saul. The Scrolls of Auschwitz comprise a variety of documents composed by members of the Sonderkommando, or Special Squad, a group of predominantly Jewish prisoners who were tasked with running the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau. These writings were buried in the grounds of the crematoria in 1944. Between 1945 and 1980, eight caches of documents by five known authors were recovered. The writings have retrospectively become known as the Scrolls of Auschwitz, as this is how the historian Ber Mark’s book Megiles Oyshvits, which transcribes several of the manuscripts, was translated into English in 1985.
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We are pleased to announce New and Forthcoming titles in our Series, Environment in History: International Perspectives.
The relationship between human society and the natural world is being studied with increased urgency and interest. Investigating this relationship from historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the monographs and collected volumes in this series showcase high-quality research in environmental history and cognate disciplines in the social and natural sciences. The series strives to bridge both national and disciplinary divides, with a particular emphasis on European, transnational, and comparative research.
For the next 30 days, take advantage of a special 25% discount off all of our Print Environment in History: International Perspectives Series titles by entering the code EH16 in your shopping cart.
Please note that all the titles listed below are also available as ebooks. More information is available here.
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