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A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
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How do companies handle responsibilities to people and the environment when they operate abroad? What tools do they use, and what are the effects? These have been throughgoing concerns in my work during the last 10-15 years of research in Turkey. I have investigated how the ‘corporate social responsibility’ work of Austrian energy company OMV helped them gain social license to operate in a community in Turkey, and how the Norwegian energy company Statkraft sought to address ‘project affected people’ in a hydropower project through ‘IFC performance standards’.
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I was hesitant when, in 2009, my then-boyfriend, Tyler, asked if I were interested in keeping bees. I did not much care for honey and was alarmed by the prospect of stings. But when we ended up renting an apartment with a small orchard in the yard, we decided to give it a shot. We proudly documented the first few weeks and months, with photos that I now recognize as miscaptioned; the oversized gloves I wore on the day I dumped our new bees into a hive make me laugh now!
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Pure Food
Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism
Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad
Knudsen, S. (ed)
February 2026
Citizens into Dishonored Felons
Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933
de Groot, T.
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Globalizing Automobilism
Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980
Mom, G.
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Legal Entanglements
Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989
Gehrig, S.
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Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
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A Borderland Capital
Kravchenko, V.
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The Force of Comparison
A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World
Steinmetz, W. (ed)
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German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940
Sturgess, C.
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Resettlers and Survivors
Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989
Fisher, G.
March 2026
Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
Gezen, E., Layne, P., & Skolnik, J. (eds)
March 2026
Cosmopolitan Refugees
Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Ripero-Muñiz, N.
March 2026
Museum Times
Changing Histories in South Africa
Witz, L.
March 2026
A Sea of Transience
Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast
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April 2026
Sexscapes of Pleasure
Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy
Zambelli, E.
April 2026
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe
From Communism to Capitalism
Shpolberg, M. & Brasiskis, L. (eds)
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The Social Origins of Thought
Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Schick, Johannes F. M.
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Sex, Risk, and Society
When Is Sex Dangerous?
Pollock, S. H.
April 2026
The Riddle of Intelligence
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Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.
April 2026
Advocacy and Archaeology
Urban Intersections
Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)
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Land and the Mortgage
History, Culture, Belonging
Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)
April 2026
Rethinking Social Movements after '68
Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond
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Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Munro, J.
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Finding Ways Through Eurospace
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Schapendonk, J.
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Ellen, R.
April 2026
The World beyond the West
Perspectives from Eastern Europe
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Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism
Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology
Ferraz de Matos, P.
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Rana, J.
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Gentrifications
Views from Europe
Chabrol, M., Collet, A., Giroud, M., Launay, L., Rousseau, M., Minassian, H. ter
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Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
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Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing
Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
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The Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Pels, P.
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A Creole Nation
National Integration in Guinea-Bissau
Kohl, C.
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German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue
Weber, A. D. (ed)
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Gender in Germany and Beyond
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Evans, J. V. & Rose, S. E. (eds)
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Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
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Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)
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Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Roth, C.
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Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
Cultural Resource Management
A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists
King, T. F. (ed)
Ernst L. Freud, Architect
The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home
Welter, V. M.
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Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region
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The Politics of Visual Pleasure
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An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power
Hertoghs, M.
The Making of Modern Eating
How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910
Kreklau, C.
Community in a Crowd
Bitcoin and the Quest for Liberty in Tel Aviv
Shapiro, M.
Arctic Silk Roads
An Anthropology of the Unbuilt
Magnani, N. & Magnani, M. (Eds.)
Migration as Anchorage
Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London
Obeid, M.
Capturing Commemoration
Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain
Noakes, L., Pennell, C., Hanna, E., Hughes, L., Kempshall, C. & Wallis, J.
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Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918
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Food Beyond Terroir
Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective
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Moving Toward Equitable Partnerships
Companion, M. & Rivera, J. D. (eds)
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Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age
Högselius, P., Nilsson, D., & Vikström, H.
A Long Journey Home
Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement
Pérez Murcia, L. E.
Shared Country, Different Stories
An Anthropologist's Journey
Trigger, D.
Mountainscapes
Pathways and Mobilities in the Alps and Beyond
Cretton, V. & Boscoboinik, A. (eds)
Social Anthropology in the Arab World
The Fragmented History of an Uncomfortable Discipline
Alajmi, A., Cantini, D., Maffi, I., & Melliti, I. (eds)
Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge
Changing Perspectives in Europe and Beyond
Birkalan-Gedik, H. & Dimpflmeier, F. (eds)
Austria's Difficult Past
Memory of National Socialism and the Filmization of Television (1960-1980)
Gortat, J.
The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops
Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain
Plender, C.
Beyond the Euromissile Crisis
Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War
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Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland
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Lubit, A. J.
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Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)
Market and Monastery
Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora
Ratanapruck, P.
Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities
Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mfum-Mensah, O.
Value and Worthlessness
The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism
Kalb, D.
(Un)Settling Place
Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move
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Journal of European Ethnology

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Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

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