Hot Off the Press – New Journal Issues Published in January

 

Social Analysis

Volume 59, Issue 4

The aim of this special issue is to bring a critical discussion of affect into debate with the anthropology of the state as a way of working toward a more coherent, ethnographically grounded exploration of affect in political life.

 

 

Journeys – The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing

Volume 16, Issue 2

This issue is composed of articles on a range of topics related to tourism and travel writing. It also includes a conference review and a book reviews section.

 

 

Regions & Cohesion 

Volume 5, Issue 3

This special issue is titled “Policy innovation, regional integration and sustainable democracy building: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as challenges and vehicles.” This issue presents articles that discuss the added value of regions to sustainable development strategies. It discusses development processes and governance both within and between regions. In doing so, it examines how both regionalism and interregionalism affect sustainable development in broader political contexts.

 

 

Journal of Romance Studies – Interdisciplinary Research in French, Hispanic, Italian and Portuguese Cultures

Volume 15, Issue 2

This issue includes articles on a range of topics.

 

 

German Politics and Society 

Volume 33, Issue 4

This special issue looks at the rise of Green Politics in Germany.

 

 

European Comic Art 

Volume 8, Issue 2

The articles in this special issue focus on portrayals of the First World War in comics and cartoons.

 

 

 

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for March

German Politics and Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
This special issue is titled West Germany’s Cold War Radio: The Crucible of the Transatlantic Century.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 7, Issue 1
This special issue is titled Cultural Studies and the Re-description of Girls in Crisis.

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
The special issue is titled Representations, History, and Wartime France.

Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War, Occupation, and Empire in France and Germany.

International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 3, Issue 2
This issue assembles contributions to inquire into the future of the “social” from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science, and law.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 6, Issue 3
This special issue is titled The Ethnography of the University, and it is dedicated to William F. Kelleher (1950-2013), inspiring teacher, brilliant thinker, activist scholar and co-founder of the Ethnography of the University initiative.

Projections
Volume 8, Issue 1
This issue ranges across avant-garde cinema, tear-jerking melodramas, the nature of historical trauma, and narratives that assume playful, game-like formats and that may be found in title sequences and trailers.

Regions & Cohesion
Volume 4, Issue 1
This issue opens with an article that furthers our critical analysis of regional social policy. This article is followed by two more that examine North American border politics as well as a Leadership Forum section and a Review Essay.

Social Analysis
Volume 58, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War Magic and Warrior Religion: Sorcery, Cognition, and Embodiment.

Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 1
The articles in this issue examine a variety of topics.

 

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 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.