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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for June

Anthropology in Action
Volume 21, Issue 1
This is a special issue on Applied and Social Anthropology, Arts and Health.

Asia Pacific World
Volume 5, Issue 1
In this first issue of Volume 5, we have chosen to begin with two keynote presentations from the fourth IAAPS Annual Conference.

Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 9, Issue 1
This issue focuses on conceptual changes and political struggles around citizenship related to the challenges of Europeanization, as well as both migration and immigration after WWII.

German Politics & Society
Volume 32, Issue 2
This special issue is titled The 2013 Bundestag Election (Part 1). 

Journeys
Volume 15, Issue 1
This journal explores travel as a practice and travel writing as a genre, reflecting the rich diversity of travel and journeys as social and cultural practices as well as their significance as metaphorical processes.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 7, Issue 1
This special issue is titled Collusion, Complicity and Resistance: Theorising Academics, the University and the Neoliberal Marketplace.

Social Analysis
Volume 58, Issue 2
This journal encourages contributions that break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic paradigms through analysis based in original empirical research.

 

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for January

German Politics & Society
Volume 31, Issue 4
This special issue is titled “German-Polish Border Regions in Contemporary Culture and Politics: Between Regionalism and Transnationalism.”

Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 8, Issue 2
This issue features articles covering a variety of social, political, and cultural topics.

Social Analysis
Volume 57, Issue 3
This special issue is titled “Cutting and Connecting: ‘Afrinesian’ Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange.”

Regions & Cohesion
Volume 3, Issue 3
This special issue is titled “Regions Without Borders? Regional Governance, Migration, and  Social Protection in Africa and Europe.”

European Comic Art
Volume 6, Issue 2
In this issue, the authors devote their attention to several aspects of the dialogue between comics and other arts.

Environment and Society: Advances in Research
Volume 4, Issue 1
This issue explores human-animal relations and what it means to be ‘human’ as well as what it means to be ‘animal.’

Italian Politics
Volume 28, Issue 1
This issue features a chronological list of important Italian political events as well as a variety of articles discussing many aspects of Italian politics.

Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 13, Issue 3
This special issue is titled “Revisiting Postmemory: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Post-Dictatorship Latin American Culture.”

Sibirica
Volume 12, Issue 3
This issue touches on a range of topics related to Siberian Studies.

Critical Survey
Volume 25, Issue 2
This special issue is titled “Eco-Dystopias: Nature and Dystopian Imagination.”

Sartre Studies International
Volume 19, Issue 2
This issue inaugurates a new phase of SSI: for the first time, we are publishing articles in French as well as English.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for July

Theoria
Volume 60, Number 135
This issue focuses on matters of human rights, justice, immigration, and the conditions of the social sciences in South Africa and beyond.

Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 8, Number 1
This special issue is titled Concepts of Empire and Imperialism.

Nomadic Peoples
Volume 17, Number 1
This special issue focuses on securing the land and resource rights of nomadic communities in East Africa.

Focaal
Volume 2013, Number 66
This issue features a theme section titled: Recasting Pasts and Futures in Postsocialist Europe.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 5, Number 2
This overall theme of this issue is change — managing it, initiating it, and experiencing it.

 

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases

Aspasia
Volume 7, Issue 1, 2013
Includes a special theme section on Women’s Autobiographical Writing and Correspondence, as well as the second part of “Clio on the Margins”, continued from last year’s issue.

Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Featuring a Rountable on “Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe Reloaded? Writing the Conceptual History of the Twentieth Century” by guest editors Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Kathrin Kollmeier.

Focaal
Volume 2013, Issue 65, Spring 2013
Including two theme sections: “Toward an anthropology of affirmative action” and “Horizons of choice: An ethnographic approach to decision making”.

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 31, Issue 1, Spring 2013
With articles on the cultural history of World War I in France, the “rise of the Anglo-Saxon”, 1920s beauty contests in France and America, German unification, and filmmaking and the invention of the Paris suburbs.

Religion and Society
Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Focusing on Jean Comaroff’s work and reflection, and also including a debate section on “Religion and Revolution” and comments on the work of Manuel A. Vásquez.

Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

New journal releases from Berghahn:

Anthropology in Action
Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2012
Articles on the post-industrial urban neighbourhoods of the U.S.A., the U.K. and Europe, the visual-anthropological method of participatory video in Northeastern Brazil, and improving obstetric care in Burkina Faso. Also including an open letter to World Bank President Kim.

Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 7, Number 1, Summer 2012
This issue includes articles on national histories, democracy in the Swedish Parliamentary Debates during the Interwar Years, conceptual history in Korean, the concept of Unnati (Progress) in Hindi, and the concept of nation in East-Central Europe.

Focaal
Volume 2012, Number 63, Summer 2012
This issue focuses on changing flows in anthropological knowledge, with articles about Western anthropologists and Eastern ethnologists, cosmopolitan anthropology, inequality, labor, citizenship, and more.

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2012
Special issue on The Rescue of Jews in France and its Empire during World War II: History and Memory, featuring articles on the French resistance and figures who played key roles in aiding the Jews in France during WWII.

Regions & Cohesion
Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2012
Focuses on themes of water management in North America, social cohesion and migration, and cohesion and governance.

Sibirica
Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2012
Featuring two extensive articles on cattle economy and environmental perception of sedentary Sakhas in Central Yakuti, and genre differentiation in spontaneous Koriak storytelling.

Theoria
Volume 59, Number 132, September 2012
Part two of a special issue on Freedom and Power. Articles examine the concepts of freedom and power, the dimensions of freedom in Plato’s Laws, and delves into Plato’s analogy between the structure of the soul and the polis.

Transfers
Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2012
Featuring a Special Section on Global Cycling examining the local meaning of bicycling in West Africa, Finland, Japan, and China. Articles also include reviews of the Gambiocycle, The National Carriage Gallery at the Cobb + Co Museum, and the movie Drive.

Happy Bastille Day- A Brief History of the Holiday and French Revolution Resources from Berghahn

Most national days celebrate about what you would expect a national day to celebrate. Some, like the national days of the United States, Albania, and Haiti mark the signing of a declaration of independence from a colonial power. Other countries, like much of Africa, choose to remember the day the colonial power actually left. Countries like Germany and Italy celebrate unification. Others are a little quirkier, like Austria which celebrates its declaration of neutrality and Luxembourg which honors the Grand Duke’s birthday. A handful of countries such as the United Kingdom and Denmark have no national holiday. But few countries can top France for the sheer coolness of their national day which commemorates the day an angry mob stormed a prison. Continue reading “Happy Bastille Day- A Brief History of the Holiday and French Revolution Resources from Berghahn” →