{"id":10530,"date":"2017-12-02T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:50:45","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-november-2017-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-november-2017-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE November 2017 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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\"\"STATEGRAPHY<\/a>
\nToward a Relational Anthropology of the State
\nEdited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann<\/p>\n

NEW SERIES: <\/strong>Volume 4, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Stategraphy\u2014the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors\u2014offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.<\/p>\n

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\"\"PEACEFUL SELVES<\/a>
\nPersonhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda
\nLaura Eramian<\/p>\n

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This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around \u201cgood\u201d personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents\u2019 selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SELFHOOD AND RECOGNITION<\/a>
\nMelanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality
\nAnita C. Galuschek<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition<\/em> combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touching on humanity as porous, fractal, dividual, and relational, the author sheds new light on the nature of selfhood, recognition, relationality, and human life.<\/p>\n

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\"\"VITAL DIPLOMACY<\/a>
\nThe Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
\nChloe Nahum-Claudel<\/p>\n

Volume 5, Ethnography, Theory, Experiment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectricity plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawen\u00ea-naw\u00ea for eight months of each year, during a season called Yankwa. Vital Diplomacy<\/em> focuses on this major ceremonial cycle to shed new light on classic Amazonian themes such as kinship, gender, manioc cultivation and cuisine, relations with non-humans and foreigners, and the interplay of myth and practice, exploring how ritual contains and diverts the threat of violence by reconciling antagonistic spirits, coordinating social and gender divides, and channelling foreign relations and resources.<\/p>\n

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\"\"FROM CLANS TO CO-OPS<\/a>
\nConfiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
\nTheodoros Rakopoulos<\/p>\n

Volume 4, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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From Clans to Co-ops<\/em> explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos\u2019s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people\u2019s lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the \u2018human\u2019 economy.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DIFFERENCE AND SAMENESS AS MODES OF INTEGRATION<\/a>
\nAnthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion
\nEdited by G\u00fcnther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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What does it mean to \u201cfit in?\u201d In this volume of essays, editors G\u00fcnther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people\u2019s positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.<\/p>\n

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\"\"BISHKEK BOYS<\/a>
\nNeighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan\u2019s Capital
\nPhilipp Schr\u00f6der<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity and integration, author Philipp Schr\u00f6der explores urban change in Kyrgyzstan\u2019s capital Bishkek from the vantage point of the male youth living in one neighbourhood. Touching on topics including authority, violence, social and imaginary geographies, interethnic relations, friendship, and competing notions of belonging to the city, Bishkek Boys<\/em> offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among young males who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CYPRUS AND ITS CONFLICTS<\/a>
\nRepresentations, Materialities, and Cultures
\nEdited by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier<\/p>\n

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The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics\u2014including public art, urban spaces, and print, broadcast and digital media\u2014it assembles an impressively multifaceted perspective, one that provides broad insights into the complex interplay of culture, conflict, and identity.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SUBJECTS, CITIZENS, AND OTHERS<\/a>
\nAdministering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918
\nBenno Gammerl
\nTranslated from the German by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Studies in British and Imperial History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe\u2014the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity. Notwithstanding their many differences, both empires faced similar administrative questions as a result: Who was excluded or admitted? What advantages were granted to which groups? And how could diversity be reconciled with demands for national autonomy and democratic participation? In this pioneering study, Benno Gammerl compares Habsburg and British approaches to governing their diverse populations, analyzing imperial formations to reveal the legal and political conditions that fostered heterogeneity.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CULTURAL TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW BERLIN<\/a>
\nEdited by Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek<\/p>\n

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Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the \u201cNew Berlin\u201d is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin<\/em> presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany\u2019s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS<\/a>
\nThe Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide
\nTaner Ak\u00e7am and Umit Kurt
\nTranslated by Aram Arkun<\/p>\n

Volume 21, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book is a valuable addition to filling the gaps of our understanding of genocide and helps readers navigate complex terrain in the case study presented\u2026 I recommend this book as a case study to be included in graduate level courses. In addition to its thorough review of the questionable statecraft of genocidal states, it is a reminder of the merits of engaged scholarship. Ak\u00e7am and Kurt, by sharing their research as an act of solidarity with citizens who continue to challenge state restraints and master narratives based on genocide, make a contribution to the ongoing process of crafting a just society.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Histoire Sociale\/Social History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES IN EUROPE<\/a>
\nThe State of the Art
\nEdited by Olivier Fillieule and Guya Accornero
\nForeword by James Jasper<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cFillieule and Accornero have edited a timely volume for breaking down national silos in social movement research\u2026 As a sociology of sociology, the major thrust of the work is that context is of paramount importance: many factors contributed to why social movement theory has largely been more robust in the US than in Europe. Nevertheless, the material here prepares scholars around the globe for detailed, comparative studies of movements\u2026 Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cSo Many as the Stars of the Sky in Multitude, and as the Sand which is By the Sea Shore Innumerable\u201d:\u00a0European Social Movement Research in Perspective<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MUSIC AND INTERNATIONAL HISTORY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY<\/a>
\nEdited by Jessica Gienow-Hecht<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Explorations in Culture and International History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is interesting about this book? First, each chapter focuses on one genre of music\u2014classical music\u2026Second, this book highlights the benefits of music in the study of international history\u2026 This kind of aesthetics is less studied because of its seemingly apolitical nature. This book shows that music is not the \u201cdessert,\u201d but \u201cthe meat and the potatoes\u201d (Buzzanco [2000], quoted by Fosler-Lussier, 119). In short, it nourishes our understanding of international history. IR scholars, especially rationalists or structural realists of IR, should read Music and International History in the Twentieth Century.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Sonic History or Why Music Matters in International History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"PARLIAMENT AND PARLIAMENTARISM<\/a>
\nA Comparative History of a European Concept
\nEdited by Pasi Ihalainen, Cornelia Ilie, and Kari Palonen<\/p>\n

Volume 2, European Conceptual History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe focus on representation, sovereignty, responsibility and deliberation offers a lot: the book convincingly demonstrates how these concepts from as early as seventeenth-century Britain recur time and time again in political controversies over what parliament is or should be. Thanks to this specific approach, the quality of the case studies and the coherence between them are significant.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Parliament, Estates and Representation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Parliament as a Conceptual Nexus<\/a><\/p>\n

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