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This post is the transcript of an electronic interview between Journeys contributor, Nivedita Misra, and Berghahn blog editor Lorna Field. Nivedita Misra is the author of Mark Tully on India and Hinduism: From the Political to the Personal which was published in Volume 15, Number 1 of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing.
Continue reading “Mark Tully on India and Hinduism: From the Political to the Personal?”
The 2014 World Tourism Day will be celebrated on September 27. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness on the role of tourism within the international community and to demonstrate how it affects social, cultural, political and economic values worldwide. With this in mind we present below a selection of relevant titles, and a 25% discount on all our Travel and Tourism books for the next 30 days. At checkout, simply enter the code WTD14.
We are also pleased to offer specially selected Berghahn Journals articles compiled in this free virtual issue. We hope you enjoy.
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Here are a few of our relevant Travel & Tourism titles:
TOURISM IMAGINARIES
Anthropological Approaches
Edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn
Afterword by Naomi Leite
This post was submitted by Mark Powell, who–along with Stephanie Glendinning, Vanesa Castán Broto, Emma Dewberry, and Claire Walsh–contributed the article Shaped by Shock: Staff on the Emergency Department ‘Shop Floor’ to the most recent issue of Anthropology in Action. In this post, Powell discusses some of the challenges and rewards of researching this topic.
Continue reading “Reframing Shock to Provide Space for New Solutions and Practices to Emerge”
September 15th – October 15th is Hispanic Heritage Month which celebrates the histories, the heritage, the cultures and contributions made by Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States.
September 15th was chosen as a starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively.
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Berghahn is delighted to highlight the CEDLA Latin America Studies Series published in Association with the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation. CEDLA is an inter-university centre for research and documentation on Latin America whose series represents the results of original research on Latin America in the field of the Social Sciences, understood in a broad sense to include History, Economics and Geography.
Volume 104 Forthcoming in November 2014!
ENHANCING DEMOCRACY
Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile
Gonzalo Delamaza
Continue reading “Mes de la Herencia Hispana”
Dear Colleague,
In honor of the International Day of Democracy on September 15th, and to celebrate the recent publication of our newest journal Democratic Theory, we have compiled a list of articles on the topic of democracy and democratic issues. You may also view the table of contents for the forthcoming issue of Democratic Theory here. We hope you enjoy.
–Berghahn Journals
During the Holocaust, Jewish physicians were faced with mounting challenges to providing care, but, amazingly, were still able to maintain many of the conventional standards of medical care. Written based on accounts of these physicians and, in some cases, their children, Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust tells the stories of these doctors and their incredible work in a “dark hour of recent history.” Following, editor Michael A. Grodin explains how he happened on the fascinating subject that became the heart of this soon-to-be-released volume.
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What drew you to the study of medical practices during the Holocaust?
I began the project on medicine and the Holocaust over 25 years ago. As a psychiatrist, I specialized in the care of Holocaust survivors and their families and worked with several twin survivors researched on by Dr. Joseph Mengele.
Continue reading “Medical Care as a Matter of Life and Faith”
“Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
As the summer ends and the weather turns, the new school year begins. Although the first day varies in different parts of the world, however normal pattern is for school to begin in late August or early September in the northern hemisphere. Berghahn is happy to welcome everyone back with some relevant Education Studies titles.
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ANTHROPOLOGIES OF EDUCATION
A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
Edited by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
The below is a special guest post written by Ana Horta, special issue editor of Nature + Culture Volume 9, Issue 2. The story of this special issue is the beginning of the story of the Energy & Society Network.
Continue reading “Energy Cultures and Practices: Special Issue of Nature + Culture”
The 71st Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, opens today and runs through September 6th 2014, on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy. Twenty films will be competing for the Golden Lion prize, and several dozen more will wrestle for the attention of critics and audiences.
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, “International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale”) is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the “Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica”, the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island
For this year’s festival line-up, screening schedule and other information please visit Venice Film Festival official website.
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In the interim, Berghahn is delighted to present its own line-up of Film Studies titles:
THE JOURNEY OF G. MASTORNA
The Film Fellini Didn’t Make
Federico Fellini
With the collaboration of Dino Buzzati, Brunello Rondi, and Bernardino Zapponi
Translated with a commentary by Marcus Perryman
Continue reading “Venice Film Festival Kicking Off the Fall Movie Festival Season”
The below is a special guest post written by Ann Smith, the Managing Editor of Girlhood Studies – An Interdisciplinary Journal.
While we work with many leading scholars and well-established authors, we also encourage new and inexperienced writers to contribute to Girlhood Studies so, as the managing editor, I see my task as necessarily including a great deal of mentoring. But, how does one talk about mentorship without sounding patronising? Being a mentor in this context is not difficult, if very time-consuming; I have never yet encountered any opposition from an inexperienced contributor to my guidance and suggestions and I often preface encouraging comments about improvements and progress in the development of a ms that is gradually becoming suitable for publication with a statement like: “I don’t mean to sound patronising but I do want to tell you how much better this version is” or something similar. Without exception so far, these authors voice gratitude and are willing to do whatever it takes. But being a mentor and talking about this process are two very different things.
When I say that I have mentored authors whose command of English indicates that this is their second (if not third) language I am already sounding like a colonial authority! There are many Englishes spoken around the world but I have to insist on a level of what might be called white Western English. When I describe an author’s command of academic language as poor or lacking I am insisting that she or he write in a way that is acceptable to a very tiny minority of readers. I find that hard to justify here although I know that what I am doing is the right thing to do in this particular context of editing an academic journal.
It is much easier to use an unoffending agentless passive voice construction to suggest to an author that a thesis put forward, say, in her abstract is being contradicted later in the article than it is to say here—in the brutally declarative active voice—that some authors appear to lack logic and seem to be unable to argue conclusively, true as this might be. And, in the work of new and inexperienced authors, it is easier to correct the misplaced modifiers (of which there have been very many over the years) and fix the incorrect punctuation (that seems to me to be endemic) than it is to say here that some writers have a poor grasp of basic English grammar.
But then, luckily, I am not often called upon to articulate why this mentoring is necessary; I just do it and the best part of it falls outside of any theorising—the recognition that Girlhood Studies has functioned as a launching pad for authors who are on their way to becoming the next generation of leading scholars, and that I have played a role in this process.
by Ann Smith, Managing Editor of Girlhood Studies