Open Access

Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.

Blog

The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey

Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director

The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial. There has been a 700% increase in downloads from 2019 when content was paywalled to 2022. We have seen a 200% increase by the end of 2022 from the end of 2020.

Podcast

Salon B

Episode 15

Coffee and Pepsi

Editorial Associate of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Sulaiman Ahmed, talks to Andrew Kloiber, the author of Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization.

Amanda Horn, our Cultural Studies Editor, talks to Melissa Oliver-Powell, the author of Pepsi and the Pill: Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969.

FocaalBlog

Notes on the Political Capitalization of Anguish and Hope in Argentina (and the American Southern-Cone)

Menara Guizardi

In recent work, several authors in anthropology have analyzed how the extreme right is being configured and acquiring a considerable pull on the mainstream (see: Kalb, 2023a; Semán & Wilkis, 2023). I want to take their reflections further and focus on the uncomfortable question about the role of “traditional” political forces in paving the way for the emergence of this neofascism. I do this from a particular vantage point in Argentina and the Southern-Cone of the Americas.

Featured Series

Catastrophes in Context

Editors:

Roberto E. Barrios, University of New Orleans
Crystal Felima, University of Kentucky
Mark Schuller, Northern Illinois University

Catastrophes in Context aims to bring critical attention to the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that create disasters, out of natural hazards or political events, and that shape the responses. Combining long-term ethnographic fieldwork typical of anthropology and increasingly adopted in similar social science disciplines such as geography and sociology with a comparative frame that enlightens global structures and policy frameworks, Catastrophes in Context includes monographs and edited volumes that bring critical scrutiny to the multiple dimensions of specific disasters and important policy/practice questions for the field of disaster research and management

John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937

The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne Billings

Edited with an Introduction by Oliver Lubrich

Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy’s tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism.

In 1937, while still a student, John F. Kennedy undertook a grand tour of Europe with his close friend and traveling companion, Lem Billings. On this journey he began to keep a diary, which is reproduced here in full and provides an unadulterated account of his thoughts and feelings. Superficially, it presents a picture of two young men enjoying their summer, sightseeing, going to the movies, bars and night clubs; but behind this we find, in Kennedy’s political observations and encounters, the looming shadow of Nazism.

EnviroSociety

Rising from the Ashes: Rural Communities in Portugal’s Fiery Landscapes

Filipa Soares, Luísa Schmidt, & Ana Delicado. Instituto de Ciências

On June 17th, 2017, Ferraria de São João (hereafter Ferraria), a small-sized village in central Portugal remotely located at the top of a hill, was encircled by flames. The two available fire engines, one at each end of the village, were unable to refill with water at some point. There were no helicopters either. The tragedy, as the few residents would come to realise the morning after, was of a regional scale. Left to their own devices, the unprepared local population fought the flames by themselves with what they had at hand: garden hoses, water buckets, branches.

Open Access

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Special Issue

Materialities of Age and Ageing. Guest Editors: Cordula Endter, Anamaria Depner and Anna Wanka

Against the backdrop of demographic change and its effects on our everyday lives, social and cultural anthropology is increasingly paying attention to the specific ways in which people grow old(er). Anthropological ageing research thereby places the subject at the centre, aiming to understand the manifold experiences of old(er) age as a subjective process, as identity and as practice (Brosius and Mandoki 2020; Götz and Rau 2017). These experiences of one's own or other peoples’ age(ing) are significantly shaped by materialities, such as ageing bodies, ‘age-appropriate’ clothing, furniture, ‘age-friendly’ spaces, and technological devices such as assistive technology (Laviolette and Hanson 2007).