{"id":9003,"date":"2016-07-28T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=9003"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:49:29","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-july-2016-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-july-2016-new-books","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Shelves: Browse July 2016 New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology<\/a>,\u00a0Cultural Studies<\/a>, Gender Studies<\/a> and\u00a0History<\/a>, along with our New in Paperback<\/a> titles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CREATIVITY IN TRANSITION<\/a>
\nPolitics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
\nEdited by Maru\u0161ka Sva\u0161ek and Birgit Meyer<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity is in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with \u2018innovation\u2019 in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE STATE WE’RE IN<\/a>
\nReflecting on Democracy’s Troubles
\nEdited by Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, and Henrietta L. Moore<\/p>\n

Volume 3, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ranging from Kenya to Peru, The State We\u2019re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> When Democracy \u2018Goes Wrong\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"LIVING ON THIN ICE<\/a>
\nThe Gwich’in Natives of Alaska
\nSteven C. Dinero<\/p>\n

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The Gwich\u2019in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial, others suggest a weakening of what was once a strong and vibrant Native community. Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of the developments that have occurred in the community over the past several decades.<\/p>\n

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\"\"ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP<\/a>
\nNeoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
\nAmalia Sa’ar<\/p>\n

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With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Businesses, municipalities, grassroots activists, and state functionaries share in projects meant to help vulnerable populations become self-supportive. Ironically, such projects produce odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and place the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism. Using theoretical concepts of economic citizenship and emotional capitalism, Economic Citizenship exposes the paradoxes that are deep within neoliberal interpretations of citizenship and analyzes the unexpected consequences of applying globally circulating notions to concrete local contexts.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"NEW USES OF BOURDIEU IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES<\/a>
\nEdited by Guy Austin<\/p>\n

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Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu\u2019s theories are, however, they have only intermittently been used to study some of the most important forms of cultural production today: cinema and new media. With topics ranging from film festivals and photography to constantly evolving mobile technologies, this collection of essays demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu\u2019s key concepts hold for the field of media studies, deploying them as powerful tools of analysis and forging new avenues of inquiry in the process.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Bourdieu on Media and Film<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MADE IN EGYPT<\/a>
\nGendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
\nLeila Zaki Chakravarti<\/p>\n

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This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers \u2013 emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalised supply chain \u2013 and the local daily-life realities of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labour force. Constructions of power and resistance, as well as individual aspirations and identities, are explored through articulations of class, gender and religion in both management discourses and shop floor practices. Leila Chakravarti\u2019s compelling study also moves beyond the confines of the factory, examining the interplay with the wider world around it.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE TOTAL WORK OF ART<\/a>
\nFoundations, Articulations, Inspirations
\nEdited by David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, and Anthony J. Steinhoff<\/p>\n

Volume 12, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk\u2014the ideal of the \u201ctotal work of art\u201d\u2014has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk\u2019s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact essays, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea\u2019s evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"NATIONAL POLICY, GLOBAL MEMORY<\/a>
\nThe Commemoration of the \u201cRighteous\u201d From Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
\nSarah Gensburger
\nTranslated by Katharine Throssell<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Berghahn Monographs in French Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of \u201cRighteous among the Nations\u201d to individuals who risked their lives sheltering Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments began developing their own national categories, the most prominent of which was the \u201cRighteous of France,\u201d honoring those who protected Jews during the Vichy regime. In National Policy, Global Memory, Sarah Gensburger uses this dramatic episode to lend a new perspective to debates over memory and nationhood. In particular, she works to combine two often divergent disciplines\u2014memory studies and political science\u2014to study \u201cmemory politics\u201d as a form of public policy.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> From \u201cThe Righteous among Nations\u201d to the \u201c\u2018Righteous of France\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE NATURE OF GERMAN IMPERIALISM<\/a>
\nConservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
\nBernhard Gissibl<\/p>\n

Volume 9, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism<\/em> situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Doorsteps in Paradise<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"WHAT IS HISTORY FOR?<\/a>
\nJohann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
\nArthur Alfaix Assis<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAssis offers the reader a wide panorama of German historiography during the nineteenth century, centering on the debates about historicism, a dominant paradigm for German historical knowledge in the nineteenth century, and in the reformulation of pragmatic value for historiography. Arthur Assis’ work is therefore not only directed at specialists or at researchers of Droysen’s work, but at all those who study German and general historiography, intellectual history, and even political historiography, since it highlights the political influences of Droysen’s thought.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Revista Brasileira de Hist\u00f3ria<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"GERMANY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA<\/a>
\nPoints of Contact, 1250-1914
\nEdited by Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn this exciting volume, Honeck, Klimke, and Kuhlmann put forward a unique resource for the burgeoning study of the African diaspora in Germany. Comprising essaysf rom scholars working in a variety of fields, the collection fills significant gaps in the current scholarship… In detailing a phenomenon long ignored within mainstream German culture and history, this collection will be of use to a variety of readers, including those working in African and African American studies, art history, German studies, and history\u2026Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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