Tag: nature and culture

Earth Day

Each year, Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center. The very first Earth day celebration brought 20 million Americans to the streets to peacefully demonstrate for environmental protection. The day finally united groups that shared common values and have been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year, reaching out to hundreds of millions of people. Get involved to build a better future!

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In celebration of Earth Day, we are delighted to offer free access to a special virtual issue that focuses on Climate Change and features articles from a range of history, politics, and anthropology journals. http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/Climate_Change_VI.pdf

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Happy Earth Day from Berghahn! Visit our web and for the next 30 days use code AAG15 at checkout to receive 25% discount on our Environmental Studies titles.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Edited by Paul Sillitoe

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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for July

Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 8, Issue 2
This issue was an open-theme issue but, amazingly, all the articles are concerned in one way or other with ethnicity.

Focaal
Voume 2014, Issue 69
This special issue is titled Seeds—Grown, Governed, and Contested.

Introducing: FocaalBlog
The blog aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 2
This special issue is titled Religion(s) and the Enlightenment.

Nature and Culture
Volume 9, Issue 2
This special issue is comprised of articles presented at the first conference of the Energy & Society network, held with the support of the European Sociological Association at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, in March 2012.

Theoria
Volume 61, Issue 139
This issue covers a range of topics.

Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 2
This issue sheds new light on transitions in forms of personal transportation. All of the articles in this issue are concerned in some way with the dynamics of social change and urban form as shapers of mobility.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for May

Israel Studies Review
Volume 29, Issue 1
This issue features quite a bit of variety. We also present two review essays, and the issue concludes with a number of books reviews on a wide range of subjects.

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Volume 6, Issue 1
JEMMS focuses on various types of texts (such as textbooks, museums, memorials, films) and their institutional, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts.

Anthropology in Action
Volume 20, Issue 3
This special issue is titled: Contributions and Challenges of Intercultural Education.

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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for September

European Judaism
Volume 46, Issue 2
This issue features two special sections: Jews in Eastern Europe: Exile and After and From the Tradition. The former comprises articles on such topics as what it means to be in exile and how those in exile choose where to begin their lives anew; and the latter features articles that explore more traditional or theological subjects such as the status of the Temple in Jewish culture or the praise of silence in contrast to the need to speak out to end avoidable human suffering. This issue also features a review essay, a book reviews section, a poetry section, and a books received section.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 5, Issue 3
This special issue just published focuses on how efforts to increase internationalisation of higher education go hand in hand with educational marketisation. It is the editors’ intention that this special issue contributes to the recent attempts to reconsider the field of internationalisation on more social and ethical grounds.

Mobility in History
Volume 5, Issue 1
With the fifth publication of this yearbook, the editors begin by asking that the fluidity of the field reflect the fluidity of the topic. They suggest that it might be time to consider a merger between the subfields within this discipline so as to continue to push mobility studies in a fruitful direction. With that in mind, they have collected a series of articles that touch on a variety of subjects

Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Issue 3
This special issue is entitled Religious Innovation for a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Norway, Ghana, China and India and is guest-edited by Nina Witoszek.

Regions and Cohesion
Volume 3, Issue 2
The journal of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC), Regions & Cohesion, is a needed platform for academics and practitioners alike to disseminate both empirical research and normative analysis of topics related to human and environmental security, social cohesion, and governance.

Sibirica
Volume 12, Issue 2
This special forum comprises articles based on papers presented at the session “Baikal Issues under Persistent State Care” at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers and serves as an introduction to the economic, social, and political dimensions of a unique natural object.

Social Analysis
Volume 57, Issue 2
Social Analysis has long been at the forefront of anthropology’s engagement with the humanities and other social sciences. In forming a critical, concerned, and empirical perspective, it encourages contributions that break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic paradigms through ‘grounded theory’, analysis based in original empirical research.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for June/July

Asia Pacific World
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2013
Includes transcripts of two keynote speeches from recent International Association for Asia Pacific Studies conferences.

Sibirica
Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2013
Explores Siberia’s important role in the study of the emergence of pottery, maintaining the communal knowledge systems of the indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North and the process of cosmopolitan learning among hosts in a hospitality couchsurfing network.

International Journal of Social Quality
Features empirical papers from a large cross-cultural research project investigating social quality across six Asia-Pacific societies.

Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2013
Five articles covering a broad spectrum of topics including: the workings of the Islamic community in Italy, queer and intersex childhood in Argentine filmmaking, the literary and political work of Tunisian poet and theorist Abdelwahab Meddeb.

Anthropology in Action
Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2013
Explores the relationship between modernist, global health promotion agendas and a more locally rooted approaches to improving health and wellbeing.

Social Analysis
Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 2013
This special issue is titled: Time and the Field.  By exploring and unfolding the temporal properties of the field, anthropology can favorably complement and extend the (spatially anchored) notion of multi-sited fieldwork with one of multi-temporal ethnography.

European Judaism
Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue gathers lectures delivered at four of the most recent Annual International Jewish-Christian-Muslim Student Conferences as well as other papers that reflect aspects of new thinking in the field of interfaith dialogue.

Israel Studies Review
Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue begins with the Forum, which focuses on a very current issue in Israel–the major attacks on, or abuses of, academic freedom.

European Comic Art
Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue is devoted to comics adaptations of literary works.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 2013
This is the first issue of Girlhood Studies that we have devoted primarily to method and methodology related to deepening an understanding of girlhood and girls’ lives.

Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2013
This issue covers a variety of topics such as the German energy transition, Love and Kill as mixed constructs in hunting and shifts in governance ushered in by the sustainability paradigm are reshaping knowledge governance.

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special issue on history and place-making.

 

Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

 

Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Special Symposium on Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development, focusing on better understanding science-policy interaction and conducting policy assessments that are supportive of sustainable development.

Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2012
This issue includes articles on rituals of healing and mourning, on marriage, and on the significance of hair as an application of religious law in Judaism.

Nomadic Peoples
Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter 2012
The three research articles in this issue tell unorthodox stories of change and adaptation in West African livestock trade, pastoral and agropastoral groups in Niger, Mongolia pastoralists. The second half of the issue is dedicated to the Dana +10 conference held on 11–13 April 2012.

Sibirica
Volume 11, Issue 3, Winter 2012
With articles on alcoholism and suicide among the indigenous peoples of the Russian north, the tradition narratives of Chukotka and Kamchatka, and the new Arctic/Siberian Studies program at the European University at St. Petersburg, as well as book reviews.

A Conversation on Nature and Culture’s Latest Special Issue

The latest issue of Nature and Culture is a Special Symposium on “Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development?” This post is a conversation between the issue’s Guest Editors, Sabine Weiland, Vivien Weiss, and John Turnpenny, on why this topic was selected.

The issue is currently available via Ingenta on the Nature and Culture website, here. Continue reading “A Conversation on Nature and Culture’s Latest Special Issue” →