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August 2023
Remapping Knowledge
Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
Spariosu, Mihai I.

October 2023
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.

September 2023
German Division as Shared Experience
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)

September 2023
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.

October 2023
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Nahum-Claudel. C.

July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.

July 2023
Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)

July 2023
If Cars Could Walk
Postsocialist Streets in Transformation
Duijzings, G. & Tuvikene, T. (eds)

July 2023
Exceptional Experiences
Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork
Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

July 2023
The Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Pels, P.

July 2023
Visions of Marriage
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Chiu, H.-C.

August 2023
Shakespeare and Social Engagement
Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)

August 2023
Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)

August 2023
Broken Glass, Broken Class
Transformations of Work in Bulgaria
Kofti, D.

September 2023
Visions of Humanity
Historical Cultural Practices since 1850
Kunkel, S., Jessica Gienow-Hecht, J., & Jobs, S. (eds)

September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)

September 2023
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders
Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
Leutloff-Grandits, C.

September 2023
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
Strauss, A.

October 2023
Audiences of Nazism
Using Media in the Third Reich
Weckel, U.

October 2023
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe
From Communism to Capitalism
Shpolberg, M. & Brasiskis, L. (eds)

October 2023
De-Commemoration
Removing Statues and Renaming Places
Gensburger, S. & Wüstenberg, J. (eds)

October 2023
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Newell, S. (ed)
Cultural Studies-Related Journals

Critical Survey
ISSN Print: 0011-1570
ISSN Online: 1752-2293

Durkheimian Studies
Études Durkheimiennes
ISSN Print: 1362-024X
ISSN Online: 1752-2307

European Comic Art
ISSN Print: 1754-3797
ISSN Online: 1754-3800

Girlhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
ISSN Print: 1938-8209
ISSN Online: 1938-8322

Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
ISSN Print: 2688-8149
ISSN Online: 2688-8157

Projections
The Journal for Movies and Mind
ISSN Print: 1934-9688
ISSN Online: 1934-9696

Sartre Studies International
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture
ISSN Print: 1357-1559
ISSN Online: 1558-5476

Turba
The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation
ISSN Print: 2693-0129
ISSN Online: 2693-0137
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Berghahn Books has been a rigorous peer-reviewed press since its inception in 1994 and has always considered this essential both for assuring the quality and scholarship of our titles but also for providing insightful feedback for our authors to enable them to improve, refine and develop their work. Supporting early career academics is an important […]
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Celebrated on July, 14, Bastille Day is the French national day and one of the most important bank holidays in France. The day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille on the 14th July 1789, a medieval fortress and prison which was a symbol of tyrannical Bourbon authority and […]
Author Article: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
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Happy Birthday, Keith Hart!
22 June 2023 is Keith Hart’s 80th birthday and all at Berghahn wish him many happy returns of the day! Keith Hart has edited, authored, or contributed to more than a dozen Berghahn titles, which is quite a record. He is also the founding editor of The Human Economy series, which has just published John […]
Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre was a key figure in French philosophy and Marxism in the twentieth century. A a playwright, philosopher, novelist, political activist, and more, his work was very influential. As such, he has featured in several books from Berghahn over the years and has a journal dedicated to his ideas. See below to explore the […]
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