{"id":11099,"date":"2018-05-24T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:37:44","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-may-2018-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-may-2018-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: Browse May 2018 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Education Studies, History, Medical Anthropology,\u00a0 Mobility Studies, and Sociology, along with our New in Paperback titles.<\/h3>\n

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Anthropology<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"Being-Here:BEING-HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Placemaking in a World of Movement<\/p>\n

Annika Lems<\/p>\n

Volume 35, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people\u2019s everyday lives.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong>: Greeting Xamar<\/a><\/td>\n

\"SearchingSEARCHING FOR A BETTER LIFE<\/a><\/p>\n

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok<\/p>\n

Sorcha Mahony<\/p>\n

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This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city\u2019s slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one\u2019s dreams.<\/p>\n

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

\"DreamsDREAMS MADE SMALL<\/a><\/p>\n

The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia<\/p>\n

Jenny Munro<\/p>\n

Volume 9, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Dreams Made Small<\/em> offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Dani men and women, asking us to think differently about education as a trajectory for transformation and belonging, and ultimately revealing how dreams of equality are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong>: New Promises, Old Problems<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Education Studies<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"TheTHE EXPERIENCE OF NEOLIBERAL EDUCATION<\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Bonnie Urciuoli<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified “experiences” have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong>: Neoliberalizing Undergraduate Experience<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Medical Anthropology<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"CareCARE ACROSS DISTANCE<\/a><\/p>\n

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration<\/p>\n

Edited by Azra Hromad\u017ei\u0107 and Monika Palmberger<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Care Across Distance<\/a><\/td>\n

\"CapturingCAPTURING QUICKSILVER<\/a><\/p>\n

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore<\/p>\n

Arielle A. Smith<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Epistemologies of Healing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore, especially in everyday life, and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the post-colonial intersection of knowledge, identity, and governmentality, and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable, plural, and fluid practice.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Mercurial Assemblages and Analytical Bricolage<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Mobility Studies<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"IntimateINTIMATE MOBILITIES<\/a><\/p>\n

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World<\/p>\n

Edited by Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez<\/p>\n

Foreword by Katharine Charsley<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 3, Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Read: Introduction: Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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History<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"TakingTAKING ON TECHNOCRACY<\/a><\/p>\n

Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present<\/p>\n

Dolores L. Augustine<\/p>\n

Volume 24, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Combining analyses of social history, popular culture, social movement theory, and histories of science and technology, it offers a compelling narrative of a key episode in the recent history of popular resistance.<\/p>\n

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\"MemorializingMEMORIALIZING THE GDR<\/a><\/p>\n

Monuments and Memory after 1989<\/p>\n

Anna Saunders<\/p>\n

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Memorializing the GDR<\/em> provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Sociology<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"InIN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD<\/a><\/p>\n

Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings<\/p>\n

Mili Mass<\/p>\n

Translated from the Hebrew by Jonathan Orr-Stav<\/em><\/p>\n

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Marshalling her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on non-consensual, confidential adoption in Israel, Mass describes legal proceedings following the Israeli state petition that declares children eligible for adoption because of alleged parental incapability, and explores the politics of state intervention in the parent\/child relationship.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Moses and Oedipus<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"MemoryMEMORY UNBOUND<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies<\/p>\n

Edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Memory Unbound<\/em> places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in the field to recast our understanding of memory\u2019s distinctive variability.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Memory on the Move<\/a><\/td>\n

\"RethinkingRETHINKING ANTIFASCISM<\/a><\/p>\n

History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present<\/p>\n

Edited by Hugo Garc\u00eda, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, and Cristina Cl\u00edmaco<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis rich and comprehensive book opens up around the historiographical question of antifascism a series of passionate debates of which the last word has not been said.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle. Revue d’histoire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/td>\n

\"FascistFASCIST INTERACTIONS<\/a><\/p>\n

Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945<\/p>\n

David D. Roberts<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a highly sophisticated synthesis of key debates and potential new directions in scholarship on fascism. It rests on a phenomenal grasp of the literature and represents a magisterial stock-taking that is essential reading for specialists.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Christopher Dillon<\/strong>, King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n

Read Preface<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Migration,MIGRATION, MEMORY, AND DIVERSITY<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany from 1945 to the Present<\/p>\n

Edited by Cornelia Wilhelm<\/p>\n

Preface by Konrad Jarausch<\/p>\n

Volume 1, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026an overall excellent contribution to the history of migration and diversity in Germany. Surely not only historians will welcome Wilhelm\u2019s fine collection.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Contemporary Austrian Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Migration, Memory, and Diversity in Germany after 1945<\/a><\/td>\n

\"BeyondBEYOND THE DIVIDE<\/a><\/p>\n

Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe<\/p>\n

Edited by Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis volume is a welcome and important contribution, offering much material and inspiration for further case studies and comparative overviews.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Forschungen zur Baltischen Geschichte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Beyond the Divide<\/a><\/td>\n

\"MigrationMIGRATION BY BOAT<\/a><\/p>\n

Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival<\/p>\n

Edited by Lynda Mannik<\/p>\n

Volume 35, Forced Migration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book is highly original in its emphasis on representations of enforced sea journeys and their memorialisations. Many, including myself, would like it on their shelf for teaching and reference.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Michael Pugh<\/strong>, University of Bradford<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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