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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 for April/May

Historical Reflections
Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 2013
Featuring writing on the ideas of Claude Langlois, specifically his work concentrated on women, religion, and the French Revolution.

Transfers
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special section on Media and Mobility, featuring articles on interactions between physical movement and communicational media.

Projections
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2013
Focusing on the topic of violence in movies, a subject of continuing controversy and discussion, with articles on television and film.

Critical Survey
Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2013
With articles dedicated to the life of Shakespeare, from a variety of angles ranging from biofiction to what we would recognize as more traditional biography.

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special issue on Postcolonial Memory Politics in Educational Media, with articles focusing primarily on Europe.

 

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

 

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.

Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

Anthropology in Action
Volume 19, Issue 3, Winter 2012
Special issue on Tourism and Applied Anthropology in Theory and Praxis, with articles on village tourism in Cyprus, hospitality in Laos, surf tourism in Costa Rica, and wine tourism in the Temecula Valley.

German Politics and Society
Volume 30, Issue 4, Winter 2012
With articles on “Freie Wähler” in the German political system, migrant interests in Germany, and fairy tale heroes and heroines in an East German Heimat; also featuring a forum on research performance in Germany, and several book reviews.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Celebrating the tenth issue and the First Annual Day of the Girl (October 11), with articles spanning girls’ aggression and use of violence, quality of life, use of the internet, and book reviews.

Journeys
Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Focusing on the places or trails where traumatic or miraculous events took place, and on the significance and meaning people put in the act of walking to and around these sites.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2012
Special Issue on “Towards and Anthropology of Anthropology: the socialization of aspiring anthropologists”, with articles focusing on the education of anthropologists.

Aspasia
Volume 6, 2012
Celebrating 100 Years of International Women’s Day, with articles focusing on Russia, the Polish lands, and Greece; a review of the book Frauentag! (Women’s Day!); and a report on recent IWD-related events in Ukraine, including two exhibitions.

Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

New journal releases from Berghahn:

Environment and Society: Advances in Research
Volume 3, Number 1, 2012
The six papers in this issue attempt to clearly describe the contemporary relationship between capitalism and the environment by reviewing five distinct and important literatures in the social sciences.

 

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 21, Number 2, Autumn 2012
Celebrating and reflecting on 21 years of AJEC, with a Thematic Focus on “Europeanist Anthropology Beyond and Between”, as well as articles on Slovenia, Portugal, and Catalonia.

 

Cambridge Anthropology
Volume 30, Number 2, Autumn 2012
Including a special section on “Internal Others: Ethnographies of Naturalism”, with articles on a range of concrete empirical cases – from an international team of climate researchers working in Amazonia, to keepers in a Catalunyan chimpanzee sanctuary; from British ecologists studying earthworms, to behavioural scientists working in the Kalahari, and Guatemalan cooking schools specializing in Western style and taste.

 

Critical Survey
Volume 24, Number 3, Winter 2012
With articles on the ‘double-body of the sign’, the political engagement with modernity in Thomas Chatterton’s works, commemorating the 1916 Tercentenary of Shakespeare’s death, the history of the treadmill, and celebrity and politics in Gordon Burn’s Born Yesterday.

 

Durkheimian Studies
Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2012
Featuring articles in English and French on the latest in Durkheimian scholarship, including Durkheim’s Lost Argument, Pragmatism and Sociology, ‘Dualism of Human Nature’, and understanding morality.

 

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 30, Number 3, Winter 2012
Special issue entitled “DOSSIER: The 2012 Elections in France”, also including an article on Franco-American cultures and a review essay on a film about Algerian independence.

 

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2012
Focusing on “Museums and the Educational Turn: History, Memory, Inclusivity”, this issue probes the claims of the new, purportedly inclusive and horizontal museologies, of catering for inclusive cultural citizenries and of empowering difference and encouraging empathy, in a variety of geographical and disciplinary settings.

 

Regions and Cohesion
Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2012
With a special focus on the Arab Spring revolts and past uprisings, including articles on the history of revolts in the Middle East, perceptions of Arab revolts, the Syrian revolution, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Sartre Studies International
Volume 18, Number 2, Winter 2012
Featuring a theme section on Sartre and Theater, with articles on theatrical ambiguity, Sartre’s conception of theater, and the theatrical audience; also contains four short speeches by Sartre on the Peace Movement, and a piece about Sartre and Engels.

 

Social Analysis
Volume 56, Number 3, Winter 2012
Including articles on ‘Primitive Mentality’, Punu twin dancing, post-war Mostar, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, intergenerational relations, Agamben’s concept of ‘state of exception’, and the effect of geographic indication brands on jewelry production in Italy.

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.