{"id":11952,"date":"2018-10-31T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11952"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:27:14","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-october-2018-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-october-2018-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE October 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, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, and Medical Anthropology, along with our New in Paperback titles.<\/h3>\n

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Anthropology<\/h5>\n

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\"Indeterminacy:INDETERMINACY<\/a>
\nWaste, Value, and the Imagination
\nEdited by Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez
\nAfterword by Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky<\/p>\n

Volume 7, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0The Values of Indeterminacy<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"CompetingCOMPETING POWER<\/a>
\nLandscapes of Migration, Violence and the State
\nNarmala Halstead<\/p>\n

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Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research, this volume considers competing forms of power at micro- and macro-levels in Guyana, where the local is marked by extensive migration, corruption, and differing levels of violence.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"SocialSOCIAL DNA<\/a>
\nRethinking Our Evolutionary Past
\nM. Kay Martin<\/p>\n

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Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA<\/em> presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins \u2013 challenging models that trace our beginnings to traits shaped by ancient hunting economies, or to genetic platforms shared with contemporary apes.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Some Givens<\/a><\/p>\n

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Environmental Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"ChangesCHANGES IN THE AIR
\nHurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
\nEleonora Rohland<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Changes in the Air<\/em> offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Hurricane Katrina and the Future of the Past<\/a><\/p>\n

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Film Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"PolishSecond, Updated Edition<\/p>\n

POLISH CINEMA<\/a>
\nA History
\nMarek Haltof<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat makes Haltof’s book so wonderful is that, like a great filmmaker, he uses his subject to craft a much deeper and complex story of the Polish people and their search for a national identity … With clarity and fluidity he makes Poland come alive.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Film and History<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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History<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"The<\/strong><\/a>THE DECISIONIST IMAGINATION<\/a>
\nSovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century
\nEdited by Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot<\/p>\n

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In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination<\/em> explores how \u201cdecisionism\u201d emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Who Decides?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"IceICE AND SNOW IN THE COLD WAR<\/a>
\nHistories of Extreme Climatic Environments
\nEdited by Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma<\/p>\n

Volume 14, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of \u201cEast\u201d and \u201cWest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY<\/a>
\nCountercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989
\nEdited by Joachim C. H\u00e4berlen, Mark Keck-Szajbel, and Kate Mahoney
\nAfterword by Sara Blaylock<\/p>\n

Volume 25, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n

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

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\"TheTHE ART OF RESISTANCE<\/a>
\nCultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century
\nAllyson Fiddler<\/p>\n

Volume 21, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance<\/em> examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.<\/p>\n

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

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Medical Anthropology<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"TheTHE GLOBAL AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY MOVEMENT<\/a>
\nA Critical Appraisal
\nPhilip B. Stafford<\/p>\n

Volume 5, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging. Drawing on an extensive collection of international case studies, this volume provides an introduction to the movement.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Theorizing and Practicing Age-friendly Development<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"WorldWORLD WAR I AND THE JEWS<\/a>
\nConflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
\nEdited by Marsha L. Rozenblit and Jonathan Karp<\/p>\n

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This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities participated in and were changed by the Great War, focusing on the dramatic circumstances they faced in Europe, North America, and the Middle East during and after the conflict.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0On the Significance of World War I and the Jews<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"WhoWHO KNOWS TOMORROW?<\/a>
\nUncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
\nSandra Calkins<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026 [The text] is distinctly original in the way the research was carried out, and in its focus on the experience of uncertainty: not an easy thing to do and quite a challenge to social anthropology.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u2028 (JRAI)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Taming Unknowns in Sudan<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DeathDEATH OF THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY?<\/a>
\nUncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
\nEdited by Susan Wright and Cris Shore<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“… Explorations of public universities elsewhere, which have received virtually no attention to date, may in future build on the work presented here, exposing further radical possibilities.<\/em>\u201d \u2022 Anthropological Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MethodologiesMETHODOLOGIES OF MOBILITY<\/a>
\nEthnography and Experiment
\nEdited by Alice Elliot, Roger Norum, and Noel B. Salazar
\nAfterword by Simone Abram<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA treasury of rich insights into methods on the move that will inspire a new generation of mobility researchers in our burgeoning field.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Nick van Hear<\/strong>, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Studying Mobilities: Theoretical Notes and Methodological Queries\u2028<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"BorderBORDER AESTHETICS<\/a>
\nConcepts and Intersections
\nEdited by Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Organized around six key ideas\u2014ecology, imaginary, in\/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting\u2014the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.<\/p>\n

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

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\"OnON RETALIATION<\/a>
\nTowards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition
\nEdited by Bertram Turner and G\u00fcnther Schlee<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This book derives a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, defining retaliation as the human disposition to strive for a reactive balancing of conflicts and injustices.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0On Retaliation: Conceptual Plurality, Transdisciplinary Research, Rifts, Blurrings and Translations<\/a><\/p>\n

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For a full selection of titles please visit our webpage www.berghahnbooks.com<\/a><\/h5>\n
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