{"id":8898,"date":"2016-07-19T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:57:45","slug":"look-for-berghahn-at-the-easa-2016-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/look-for-berghahn-at-the-easa-2016-conference","title":{"rendered":"Look for Berghahn at The EASA 2016 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/cats\/series\/Berghahn-2016-EASA-Series.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"221\" \/>We are delighted to inform you that we will be present at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easaonline.org\/conferences\/easa2016\/\">The European Association of Social Anthropologists<\/a> (EASA) Conference in Milan, Italy from the 20th-23rd of July 2016. Please stop by our table to browse the latest selection of books at discounted prices, pick up some free journal samples, or chat to Marion Berghahn.<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Reception in the U6 Foyer from 4.30pm on Friday, 22nd July to celebrate the launch of our New Series, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/worlds-in-motion\">Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em> and its 1st Volume, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/SalazarKeywords\">Keywords of Mobility<\/a><\/em>, edited by Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram.\u00a0At the reception, we will also be launching Volume 33 of our <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/forced-migration\">Forced Migration<\/a><\/em> Series, namely <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/KauffmannAgendas\">The Agendas of Tibetan Refugees<\/a><\/em> by Thomas Kauffmann.\u00a0So if you will be in Milan, we&#8217;d be delighted if you could join us at this very special event.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unable to attend the conference, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/anthropology\/\">Anthropology<\/a> titles found on our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\">website<\/a>. At checkout, simply enter the\u00a0discount code EASA16. Visit our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/\">\u00a0website<\/a>\u00ad to browse our newly published interactive online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/cats\/subject\/Berghahn-2016-Anthropology-and-Sociology.pdf\">Anthropology &amp; Sociology Catalog<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/cats\/series\/Berghahn-2016-EASA-Series.pdf\">EASA Series Flyer<\/a> or use the new enhanced subject searching features\u00ad for a complete listing of all published and forthcoming titles.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a preview of some of our newest releases on display, as well as some upcoming titles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/easa\">EASA Series<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Association with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easaonline.org\/\">European Association of Social-Anthropologists (EASA)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social anthropology in Europe is growing, and the variety of work being done is expanding. This series is intended to present the best of the work produced by members of the EASA, both in monographs and in edited collections. The studies in this series describe societies, processes and institutions around the world and are intended for both scholarly and student readerships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/GregoricBonMoving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"220\" \/>Volume 29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/GregoricBonMoving\">MOVING PLACES<\/a><br \/>\nRelations, Return and Belonging<br \/>\nEdited by Nata\u0161a Gregori\u010d Bon and Jaka Repi\u010d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Moving Places<\/em> draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. The book centers on \u201cmoving places\u201d: places with locations that are not fixed but relative. Locations appearing to be reasonably stable, such as home and homeland, are in fact always subject to practices, imaginaries, and politics of movement. Bringing together original ethnographic contributions with a clear theoretical focus, this volume spans the fields of anthropology, human geography, migration, and border studies, and serves as teaching material in related programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BrumannWorld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"219\" \/>Volume 28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BrumannWorld\">WORLD HERITAGE ON THE GROUND<\/a><br \/>\nEthnographic Perspectives<br \/>\nEdited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/BrumannWorld_intro.pdf\">Introduction: UNESCO World Heritage \u2013 Grounded?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/NielsenFiguration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"220\" \/>Volume 27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/NielsenFiguration\">FIGURATION WORK<\/a><br \/>\nStudent Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy<br \/>\nGritt B. Nielsen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What role should students take in shaping their education, their university, and the wider society? These questions have assumed new importance in recent years as universities are reformed to become more competitive in the \u201cglobal knowledge economy.\u201d With Denmark as the prism, this book shows how negotiations over student participation \u2014 influenced by demands for efficiency, flexibility, and student-centered education \u2014 reflect broader concerns about democracy and citizen participation in increasingly neoliberalised states. Combining anthropological and historical research, Gritt B. Nielsen develops a novel approach to the study of policy processes and opens a timely discussion about the kinds of future citizens who will emerge from current reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/NielsenFiguration_intro.pdf\">Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/RountreeContemporary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"221\" \/>Volume 26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/RountreeContemporary\">CONTEMPORARY PAGAN AND NATIVE FAITH MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE<\/a><br \/>\nColonialist and Nationalist Impulses<br \/>\nEdited by Kathryn Rountree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners\u2019 beliefs, practices, goals, and agendas are diverse. Often side by side are groups trying to reconstruct ancient religions motivated by ethnonationalism\u2014especially in post-Soviet societies\u2014and others attracted by imported traditions, such as Wicca, Druidry, Goddess Spirituality, and Core Shamanism. Drawing on ethnographic cases, contributors explore the interplay of neo-nationalistic and neo-colonialist impulses in contemporary Paganism, showing how these impulses play out, intersect, collide, and transform.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/RountreeContemporary_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Context is Everything: Plurality and Paradox in Contemporary European Paganisms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/KjaerulffFlexible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"221\" \/>Volume 25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/KjaerulffFlexible\">FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM<\/a><br \/>\nExchange and Ambiguity at Work<br \/>\nEdited by Jens Kjaerulff<br \/>\nAfterword by Keir Martin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Approaching \u201cwork\u201d as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary \u201cflexible\u201d capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism\u2019s social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, \u201cgift-like\u201d socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/KjaerulffFlexible_intro.pdf\">Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/GronsethBeing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"221\" \/>Volume 23\u00a0<em>New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/GronsethBeing\">BEING HUMAN, BEING MIGRANT<\/a><br \/>\nSenses of Self and Well-Being<br \/>\nEdited by Anne Sigfrid Gr\u00f8nseth<br \/>\nEpilogue by Nigel Rapport<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe authors of this volume remind us how important it is to see migrants as humans, because human nature within them is not lost despite the economic, cultural or social limitations that they are experiencing. It is a book for scholars who are dealing with various migration issues either in quantitative or qualitative manner, which emphasises that behind numbers or labels there are individual stories, experiences and hopes.\u201c<\/em> \u00b7 <strong>Anthropological Notebooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This volume explores migrant\u2019s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living \u201cin between\u201d or on the \u201cborderlands\u201d between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants\u2019 and refugees\u2019 experience of identity and quest for well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/GronsethBeing_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/DolanAnthropology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"221\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/DolanAnthropology\">THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak<br \/>\nAfterword by Robert J. Foster<\/p>\n<p>Volume 18, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/dislocations\">Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility<\/em> explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/DolanAnthropology_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LaFontaineWitches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"230\" \/>Paperback Original<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LaFontaineWitches\">WITCHES AND DEMONS<\/a><br \/>\nA Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism<br \/>\nJean La Fontaine<\/p>\n<p>Volume 10, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/public-applied-anthropology\">Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LaFontaineWitches_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Understanding the Other<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/CalkinsWho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"222\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/CalkinsWho\">WHO KNOWS TOMORROW?<\/a><br \/>\nUncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan<br \/>\nSandra Calkins<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/CalkinsWho_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Taming Unknowns in Sudan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LittlewoodCosmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"225\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LittlewoodCosmos\">COSMOS, GODS AND MADMEN<\/a><br \/>\nFrameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine<br \/>\nEdited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LittlewoodCosmos_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/SalazarKeywords.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"221\" \/>1st Volume in a NEW Series<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/SalazarKeywords\">KEYWORDS OF MOBILITY<\/a><br \/>\nCritical Engagements<br \/>\nEdited by Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram<\/p>\n<p>Volume 1, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/worlds-in-motion\">Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams\u2019 Keywords (1976), this edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Each chapter provides an historical context, a critical analysis of how the keyword has been used in relation to mobility, and a conclusion that proposes future usage or research.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/SalazarKeywords\">Introduction: Keywords of Mobility: A Critical Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LaszczkowskiCity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"221\" \/>Forthcoming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LaszczkowskiCity\">&#8216;CITY OF THE FUTURE&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nBuilt Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana<br \/>\nMateusz Laszczkowski<\/p>\n<p>Volume 14, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/integration-and-conflict-studies\">Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city\u2019s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic \u2013 allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW IN PAPERBACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LongSocial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"222\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LongSocial\">THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta Moore<\/p>\n<p>Volume 2, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/wyse\">WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The range of ethnographic settings is dazzling&#8230; there is something here for everyone and a veritable cornucopia for the lover of ethnographic diversity.&#8221;<\/em> \u00b7 <strong>American Ethnologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What happens when people \u201cachieve\u201d? Why do reactions to \u201cachievement\u201d vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement\u2019s multiple effects\u2014one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality, embodiment, affect and narrative. In doing so, the volume advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology, emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of \u201cthe achiever\u201d as a subject position.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LongSocial_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/ZenkerIrish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"236\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/ZenkerIrish\">IRISH\/NESS IS ALL AROUND US<\/a><br \/>\nLanguage Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland<br \/>\nOlaf Zenker<\/p>\n<p>Volume 6, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/integration-and-conflict-studies\">Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis book will be of interest to linguistic anthropologists, cultural anthropologists, as well as sociologists, political scientists, and historians of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It will also be valuable to those interested in cultural identity formation within politically charged contexts, including postcolonial contexts. It complements and extends the existing research on political identities in Northern Ireland.\u201d<\/em> <strong>\u00b7 American Ethnologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of &#8216;Irish culture&#8217; in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author\u2019s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/ZenkerIrish_intro.pdf\">Chapter 1. A Walk of Life: Entering Catholic West Belfast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BacasBorder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"222\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BacasBorder\">BORDER ENCOUNTERS<\/a><br \/>\nAsymmetry and Proximity at Europe&#8217;s Frontiers<br \/>\nEdited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh\u2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026provides a rich and thought provoking perspective on encounters and connectivity at the borders of Europe \u2013 both internal and external.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 <strong>The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/BacasBorder_intro.pdf\">Introduction: Border Encounters \u2013 Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe\u2019s Frontiers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OF RELATED INTEREST FROM BERGHAHN JOURNALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_air-cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"197\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_ajec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"197\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_aia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"197\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_ame.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"199\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_ca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"199\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_focaal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/conflict-and-society\">Conflict and Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advances in Research<\/p>\n<p>Organized violence and suffering is a daily reality for some, while for others it is a sound bite or a news clip seen in passing and easily forgotten. Rigorous scholarly research of the social and cultural conditions of organized violence, its genesis, dynamic, and impact, is fundamental to addressing questions of local and global conflict and its impact on the human condition.\u00a0<em>Conflict and Society<\/em>\u00a0expands the field of conflict studies by using ethnographic inquiry to establish new fields of research and interdisciplinary collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/ajec\"><br \/>\nAnthropological Journal of European Cultures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published since 1990,\u00a0<em>Anthropological Journal of European Cultures<\/em>\u00a0(AJEC)\u00a0engages with current debates and innovative research agendas addressing the social and cultural transformations of contemporary European societies. 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