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Unique studies at budget-friendly prices, these March and April paperbacks are great for adoptions and reading lists. If you want to evaluate their usefulness on a course you teach, please request a digital examination copy: just click through and look for the green ‘Request a review or examination copy’ button. Open Access titles are, of course, freely available to download any time.
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Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!
Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For information on this year’s theme please visit ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) webpage www.icomos.org.
In joining the celebration, Berghahn is excited to present relevant Heritage Studies titles and Journals, as well as highlight our Explorations in Heritage Studies series.
Continue reading “Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!”The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey: Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III
by 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.
Continue reading “The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey: Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III”AUTHOR ARTICLE: Continental encampment?
“Could,” ask Are John Knudsen and Kjersti Berg, “refugee camps, as traditionally understood, be scaled up to embrace a region hosting millions of refugees and migrants?”
Here they discuss their new book, CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: GENEALOGIES OF HUMANITARIAN CONTAINMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPE, which explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment, containment which we now see on a vast scale.
Arran J. Calvert on Life With Durham Cathedral
Arran J. Calvert has published on the topics of space, time, singing and LEGO building. Here he tells us about his new book, Life with Durham Cathedral: A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building, and how at Durham Cathedral the only constant is change.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Angela Rong Yang Zhang on At Home in a Nursing Home
ANGELA RONG YANG ZHANG received the Australian Government Postgraduate Award and Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference Bursary in 2015 and is currently Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grant supported researcher at College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Zhang is also an Adjunct Fellow to School of Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide.
In this exclusive interview, Angela explores the inspiration and issues behind her new book, At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia.
Continue reading “AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Angela Rong Yang Zhang on At Home in a Nursing Home”Author interview (PART 2): ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH on A MAGPIE’S TALE
In the concluding part of our discussion of her new book A Magpie’s Tale, Anna tells us about the family she stayed with for the best part of a year – with sometimes as many as ten people in their small, two-room house – and how dramatic economic and political changes drastically changed the lives of many Kazakh families in Mongolia.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW(part 1): Anna Odland Portisch on A MAGPIE’S TALE
ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Brunel University. In her new book A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia she recounts her time living with a Kazakh family in a small village.
It’s fascinating (“Can you imagine a stranger showing up on your doorstep and asking to stay for a year?”) and highly evocative (“It was so cold that night, the next morning the driver had to bring the engine back to life by lighting a small fire underneath the car”) and it gave us so much to discuss that we’ve split our discussion into two parts.
Anna’s story begins here and Part Two will follow very soon.
Continue reading “AUTHOR INTERVIEW(part 1): Anna Odland Portisch on A MAGPIE’S TALE”BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY
To mark this year’s Australia Day we present a selection of our latest titles on aspects of in Australia. Here are paperbacks, eBooks, and hardbacks on everything from health care for the elderly to film and song, the lives and struggles of the indigenous population, and how the nation has faced its colonial legacies.
Continue reading “BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY”AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Theodoros Rakopoulos on From Clans to Co-ops.
To mark the the first publication in paperback of his acclaimed From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily, Theodoros Rakopoulos kindly agreed to discuss his work, the fieldwork behind it, and how co-ops came to assume a role in the rejection of the mafia.
THEODOROS RAKOPOULOS is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has most recently published on citizenship, property, statehood and conspiracy theory. His book Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus tackles citizenship by investment programmes and elite Russian migration to ‘Europe’ (Manchester University Press, 2023). He is editor of The Global Life of Austerity and co-editor of Towards an Anthropology of Wealth (with Knut Rio).
Continue reading “AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Theodoros Rakopoulos on From Clans to Co-ops.”