International Migrants Day

On December 18, the international community recognizes the rights of migrants around the world. Each year the UN invites governments, organizations, and individuals to distribute information on the human rights and migrants’ fundamental freedoms.This is the day to express our support and solidarity with all immigrants. For more information please visit http://www.un.org/en/events/migrantsday/index.shtml

With this in mind, we present below a selection of related titles, and a 25% discount on all of our Refugee and Migration Studies books for the next 30 days. At checkout, simply enter the code IMG17. For a full range of our titles, please visit our website.

Also, please scroll down to view and access a list of Related Articles from Berghahn Journals, until Dec 31!

CHILDREN OF THE CAMP
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Catherine-Lune Grayson

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SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE November 2017 NEW BOOKS

We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Gender Studies, History, Media Studies, and Urban Studies, along with our New in Paperback titles.

STATEGRAPHY
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Edited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

NEW SERIES: Volume 4, Studies in Social Analysis

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Visit Berghahn Booth #306 at AAA 2017

We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting being held November 29- December 3, 2017, in Washington DC. Please stop by Booth #306 to browse our selection of books at discounted prices and pick up free journal samples.

We are especially excited to invite you to join us on Friday December 1st at 3:30pm in the exhibit hall area for a wine reception to be held at the Berghahn booth to celebrate the launch of our new series titled Studies in Social Analysis under general editor Martin Holbraad, who has also been appointed editor of Social Analysis, the journal. We hope to see you there!

If you are unable to attend the conference, we would like to extend a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all Anthropology titles. Visit our website and use discount code AAA17 at checkout.

For more information on New and Forthcoming titles, please check out our brand new interactive online Anthropology & Sociology 2018 Catalog.

Below is a preview of some of our newest releases on display:

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Universal Children’s Day

In recognition of Universal Children’s Day, Berghahn Journals is offering FREE access to articles from Girlhood Studies, Boyhood Studies, and Anthropology of the Middle East until November 27!

Adolescent Girls with Disabilities in Humanitarian Settings: “I Am Not ‘Worthless’-I Am a Girl with a Lot to Share and Offer”

Emma Pearce, Kathryn Paik and Omar Robles

Making It Up: Intergenerational Activism and the Ethics of Empowering Girls

Emily Bent

The Ethics of Representing Girls in Digital Policy Spaces

Emily Anderson

Terms of Silence: Weaknesses in Corporate and Law Enforcement Responses to Cyberviolence against Girls

Suzanne Dunn, Julie S. Lalonde and Jane Bailey

A Brief History of Childhood in Boir Ahmad, Iran

Erika Friedl

Conflicts in Children’s Everyday Lives: Fresh Perspectives on Protracted Crisis in Lebanon

Erik van Ommering

“I Love You, Guys”: A Study of Inclusive Masculinities among High School Cross-Country Runners

Luis Morales and Edward Caffyn-Parsons

The Biologically Vulnerable Boy: Framing Sex Differences in Childhood Infectious Disease Mortality

Heather T. Battles

Transition, Crisis and Nostalgia: Youth Masculinity and Postfeminism in Contemporary Hollywood, an Analysis of Superbad

Victoria Cann and Erica Horton

“I Am Trying” to Perform Like an Ideal Boy: The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen Par

Natasha Anand

Africa Week

This week is Africa Week! Africa Week celebrates and showcases Africa’s continuous advancements and achievements with respect to social, economic, political and environmental development. Read more here

In honor of Africa Week, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. Receive a 50% discount on all African Studies titles found on our website until November 17, 2017. At checkout, simply enter the discount code UNAF17. Browse our newly published online African Studies 2017 Catalog or use the subject searching features on our website for a complete listing of all published and forthcoming titles.

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Berghahn Books is attending the GSA 2017 conference

We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the annual German Studies Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 5^th-8^th, 2017. Please stop by our stand to browse our latest selection of books at discounted prices & pick up some free journal samples.

We are happy to invite you to join Berghahn on Friday October 6^th at 5pm in the exhibit hall a rea for a wine reception to be held at Berghahn stand to celebrate the publication of EASTERN EUROPE UNMAPPED edited by Irene Kacandes and Yuliya Komskasome.

We are also excited to invite you to another wine reception Berghahn is hosting along with German Studies Association on Saturday, October 7^th at 5pm, also at the Berghahn stand, to mark the publication of MODERN GERMANY IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE, edited by Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp, in honor of Konrad H. Jarausch, a former GSA President and highly respected scholar in German Studies.

If you are unable to attend the conference, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. Receive a 25% discount on all German Studies titles found on our website, valid through November 8th, 2017. At checkout, simply enter the discount code GSA17. Browse our new 2017-18 German Studies Catalog online or visit our website for a complete listing of all published and forthcoming titles.

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SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE September 2017 NEW BOOKS

We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Media Studies, History, and Refugee and Migration Studies, along with our New in Paperback titles.

THE PARTICIPANTS
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Edited by Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller
Translated from the German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller-Hughes and Jane Paulick

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Visit Berghahn Books at The Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): the heart of geography We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending The Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference in London, from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September 2017. Please stop by our table to browse our latest selection of books at discounted prices and pick up free journal samples.

If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all Geography Titles found on our website. At checkout, simply enter the discount code RGS17.

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Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina

by Timothy J. McMillan

The following essay originally appeared in Silence, Screen and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information. This book is now available in paperback.

In 2001, I began teaching a first-year seminar titled “Defining Blackness.” My journey with that class and its descendants is intertwined with my relationship with the memorial landscape, concrete and virtual, of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In its initial year, the class decided to take as its focus the idea of how blackness, specifically American blackness, might mediate and alter how people experience the physical campus. In class discussions we surmised that there is a segregation of knowledge and of perception that might become manifest by examining the memorial landscape and that there are aspects of the campus that might be invisible to some but highly charged to others. Continue reading “Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina” →

Why do so many American Parents Struggle with Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep?

by Cecília Tomori

For World Breastfeeding Week, we’re delighted to offer FREE access to a chapter from Nighttime Breastfeeding for a limited time. Click here to access this chapter, titled Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep.

Nighttime Breastfeeding addresses the central question: why do so many American parents struggle with nighttime breastfeeding and sleep? I set out to answer this question, which emerged from my preliminary fieldwork, using the classic anthropological technique of participant observation. I spent many months immersed in fieldwork, and then many more surrounded by all the materials I had collected – piles of fieldnotes to interview recordings, brochures, photos, and, most importantly, memories of being with families who have graciously let me into their lives. I revisited key moments over and over again – recalling certain phrases, pauses, and gestures, which I could examine through the lenses offered by my anthropological training. Continue reading “Why do so many American Parents Struggle with Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep?” →

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