{"id":10243,"date":"2017-07-23T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:10:06","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-july-2017-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-july-2017-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE JULY 2017 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology<\/a>,\u00a0Applied Anthropology<\/a>,\u00a0Film Studies<\/a>, Gender Studies<\/a>, History<\/a>, and Media Studies<\/a>, along with our\u00a0New in Paperback\u00a0titles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"EMPTINESS AND FULLNESS<\/a>
\nEthnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China
\nEdited by Susanne Bregnb\u00e6k and Mikkel Bunkenborg<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China: In the ostensibly meritocratic exam system and the rhetoric of officials, in underground churches, housing bubbles, and nationalist fantasies, in bodies possessed by spirits and evaluations of jade, there is a pervasive concern with states of lack and emptiness and the contributions suggest that this play of emptiness and fullness is crucial to ongoing constructions of quality, value, and subjectivity in China.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MANAGING AMBIGUITY<\/a>
\nHow Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina
\n\u010carna Brkovi\u0107<\/p>\n

Volume 31, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare.<\/p>\n

Managing\u00a0Ambiguity\u00a0<\/em>follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.<\/p>\n

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\"\"TRAVEL AND REPRESENTATION<\/a>
\nEdited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, and Emma Waterton<\/p>\n

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Travel and Representation<\/em> is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers\/scholars employ representation in their writing\/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction\u2028:<\/strong> Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE BRESSONIANS<\/a>
\nFrench Cinema and the Culture of Authorship
\nCodru\u0163a Morari<\/p>\n

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How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema? The Bressonians<\/em> provides an answer in the form of a strikingly original study of Bresson and his influence on the work of filmmakers Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat. Extending the discourse of authorship beyond the idea of a singular visionary, it explores how the imperatives of excellence function within cinema\u2019s pluralistic community. Bresson\u2019s example offered both an artistic legacy and a creative burden within which filmmakers reckoned in different, often arduous, and altogether compelling ways.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MAD M\u00c4DCHEN<\/a>
\nFeminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
\nMargaret McCarthy<\/p>\n

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The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement\u2019s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad M\u00e4dchen<\/em> offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature, film, and media. Author Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes political discourse to define itself through both differences and affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic, and racial lines.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT<\/a>
\nImpacts and Outcomes
\nEdited by Kristina Schulz<\/p>\n

Volume 22,Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women\u2019s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM\u2019s cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong> A Success without Impact? Case Studies from the Women’s Liberation Movement’s in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"CULTURAL BORDERS OF EUROPE<\/a>
\nNarratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past
\nEdited by Mats Andr\u00e9n, Thomas Lindkvist, Ingmar S\u00f6hrman and Katharina Vajta<\/p>\n

Volume 30, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe<\/em> provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of European intercultural relations today.<\/p>\n

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\"\"EUROPEAN REGIONS AND BOUNDARIES<\/a>
\nA Conceptual History
\nEdited by Diana Mishkova and Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi<\/p>\n

A volume in European Conceptual History<\/em><\/a> Series<\/p>\n

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It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions\u2014supra-national geographical designations such as \u201cScandinavia,\u201d \u201cEastern Europe,\u201d and \u201cthe Balkans.\u201d Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volume is the first to provide a synthetic account of these concepts and the historical and intellectual contexts in which they emerged. Bringing together prominent international scholars from across multiple disciplines, it systematically and comprehensively explores how such \u201cmeso-regions\u201d have been conceptualized throughout modern European history.<\/p>\n

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\"\"TRANSBORDER MEDIA SPACES<\/a>
\nAyuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
\nIngrid Kummels<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Anthropology of Media<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Transborder Media Spaces<\/em> offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined media genres, actors in Tamazulapam Mixe and its diaspora community in Los Angeles open up media spaces and seek to forge more equal relations both within Mexico and beyond its borders. It is within these spaces that Ayuujk people carve out their own, at times conflicting, visions of development, modernity, gender, and what it means to be indigenous in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong> Media Diversity in an \u2018Indigenous\u2019 Community\u2014Approaches to the Dynamics of Media Spaces<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"WATERWORLDS<\/a>
\nAnthropology in Fluid Environments
\nEdited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Ethnography, Theory, Experiment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026anthropology is not a newcomer to the study of water as an object and agent of social organization and cultural imagining, and the current volume introduces the reader to a good deal of this literature. But it also makes an original contribution by assembling a quantity of ethnographic cases and applying the anthropological perspective to issues of knowledge, management, and morality. The collected ethnographies illustrate, to quote L\u00e9vi-Strauss, that water is not only good to drink but good to think.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropology Review Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE ANATOMY OF MURDER<\/a>
\nEthical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
\nSabine Hildebrandt
\nForeword by William E. Seidelman<\/p>\n

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\u201cBased on her research in archives in Europe and North America, Hildebrandt offers a learned and well-rounded account of the manifold facets of the field, including a discussion of the ethical transgressions of coerced human-subject research, the killing of concentration camp prisoners and inmates of mental asylums, and the compilation, uses, and application of knowledge within the most inhumane contexts\u2026 an important and eye-opening book that will become standard literature for Holocaust studies programs, as well as for courses on medical ethics and the history of medicine and science during the twentieth century.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Central European History<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"PROTEST IN HITLER’S \u201cNATIONAL COMMUNITY\u201d<\/a>
\nPopular Unrest and the Nazi Response
\nEdited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin
\nAfterword by David Clay Large<\/p>\n

Volume 14, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a solid book and a welcome addition to the literature. It should find a place on the reading lists of any course dealing with dictatorships, totalitarianism, or twentieth-century German history.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 HISTORY: Reviews of New Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

That Hitler\u2019s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which \u201cracial\u201d Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime\u2019s response. Workers, women, and religious groups all convinced the Nazis to appease rather than repress \u201cracial\u201d Germans. Expressions of discontent actually increased during the war, and Hitler remained willing to compromise in governing the German Volk as long as he thought the Reich could salvage victory.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MASS MEDIA AND HISTORICAL CHANGE<\/a>
\nGermany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present
\nFrank B\u00f6sch
\nTranslated from the German by Freya Buechter<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026readers will appreciate Bosch\u2019s insights in comparing Nazi and GDR media, and underscoring common government interventions that emerged across fascist and democratic regimes, as well as his attempts to be inclusive with regard to Asian, African, and Latin America media formations. While the Internet age appears only in an epilogue, readers will profit from B\u00f6sch\u2019s framing and breadth, and from his comprehensive bibliography and reviews of German sources and issues.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book shows how the advent of new media has changed societies in modern history, focusing not on the specifics of technology but rather on their distribution, use, and impact. Using Germany as an example for international trends, it compares the advent of printing in Europe and East Asia, and the impact of the press on revolutions, nation building, and wars in North America and Europe.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Approaches to Media History<\/a><\/p>\n

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