In Human Rights Without Democracy?, published in an English translation by Berghahn Books in December 2012, Swiss politician, diplomat, and human rights activist Gret Haller interrogates why human rights are defined in a certain manner internationally. _________________________ Do Human Rights really reflect the interests of the people? Can citizens in a democracy decide what human rights are? Or […]
Anthropology in Action Volume 19, Issue 3, Winter 2012 Special issue on Tourism and Applied Anthropology in Theory and Praxis, with articles on village tourism in Cyprus, hospitality in Laos, surf tourism in Costa Rica, and wine tourism in the Temecula Valley. German Politics and Society Volume 30, Issue 4, Winter 2012 With articles on […]
Back in 2009, a few faculty members at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (located in Beppu, Oita, Japan), along with the university’s first president, considered that the often promoted concept in the early years of the 21st century of this being the “Asia Pacific Century” needed re-evaluation, not only with respect to possible scenarios for the […]
Newly released paperbacks from Berghahn: Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, edited by Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi Comics in French: The Bande Dessinée in Context, Laurence Grove News as Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions, Ursula Rao Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification, Nigel Rapport […]
Newly released titles from Berghahn’s history and anthropology lists: The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg and Simon Shaw-Miller Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, edited by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000: Recovery […]