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Berghahn Journals Open Access

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Berghahn Open Anthro

A subscribe-to-open initiative which flipped 13 anthropology journals to open access in 2020. All 2020-2021 volumes are open access.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN CULTURES

Borderline Heritages (Volume 30, Issue 1)

Boundary Re-works in European Anthropology: Conceptual, Methodological and Historical Explorations (Volume 29, Issue 2)

Welfare Frontiers (Volume 29, Issue 1)

‘People-Place-Process’ and Attachment in the Museum: A New Paradigm for Understanding Belonging?
Susannah Eckersley (Volume 26, Issue 2)

ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

States of Displacement: Middle Eastern Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Asylum Seekers in Global Context (Volume 16, Issue 1)

Food and Cooking in the Middle East and North Africa (Volume 15, Issue 2)

Reinventing Anthropological Topics (Volume 15, Issue 1)

Manly Merchants: Commerce, Mobility and Masculinity among Afghan Traders in Eurasia
Magnus Marsden (Volume 14, Issue 2)

THE CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY

‘Beyond Revolution: Reshaping Nationhood through Senses and Affects’ (Volume 39, Issue 2)

Witnessing: Truths, Technologies, Transformations (Volume 39, Issue 1)

Capture, Autonomy, Dependence: Theorising Global Energy Futures from Africa (Volume 38, Issue 2)

Confinement Beyond Site: Connecting Urban and Prison Ethnographies (Vol. 38, Issue 1)

CONFLICT AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research

Experiential Landscapes of Terror (Volume 7)

Volume 6

Liberation Autochthony: Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola (Volume 5)

Seeking Recognition, Becoming Citizens: Achievements and Grievances among Former Combatants from Three Wars
Johanna Söderström (Volume 5)

ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research

Pollution and Toxicity: Cultivating Ecological Practices for Troubled Times (Volume 12)

Oceans (Volume 11)

A Crystal Ball for Forests?: Analyzing the Social-Ecological Impacts of Forest Conservation and Management over the Long Term
Daniel C. Miller, Pushpendra Rana and Catherine Benson Wahlén (Volume 8)

Culturally Grounded Indicators of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Eleanor Sterling, Tamara Ticktin, Tē Kipa Kepa Morgan, Georgina Cullman, Diana Alvira, Pelika Andrade, Nadia Bergamini, Erin Betley, Kate Burrows, Sophie Caillon, Joachim Claudet, Rachel Dacks, Pablo Eyzaguirre, Chris Filardi, Nadav Gazit, Christian Giardina, Stacy Jupiter, Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Joe McCarter, Manuel Mejia, Kanoe Morishige, Jennifer Newell, Lihla Noori, John Parks, Pua‘ala Pascua, Ashwin Ravikumar, Jamie Tanguay, Amanda Sigouin, Tina Stege, Mark Stege and Alaka Wali (Volume 8)

Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making
Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt and Anna Tsing (Volume 6)

FOCAAL
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

Generating dependence: New configurations of gender, kinship, and labor (Volume 2021, Issue 90)

Container economies: Logistics and labor along the maritime supply chain (Volume 2021, Issue 89)

Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of state capitalism (Volume 2020, Issue 88)

Financializations/border/predations (Volume 2020, Issue 87)

Tower block “failures”? High-rise anthropology (Volume 2020, Issue 86)

Doing bizness: Migrant smuggling and everyday life in the Maghreb
Line Richter (Volume 2019, Issue 85)

Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program: Clientelism beyond reciprocity and economic rationality
Flávio Eiró and Martijn Koster (Volume 2019, Issue 85)

Life in the ant trails: Cocaine and caustic circuits in Bissau
Henrik Vigh (Volume 2019, Issue 85)

Policing at a distance and that human thing: An appreciative critique of police surveillance
David Sausdal (Volume 2019, Issue 85)

Visions of prosperity and conspiracy in Timor-Leste
Judith Bovensiepen (Volume 2016, Issue 75)

Which community for cooperatives?: Peasant mobilizations, the Mafia, and the problem of community participation in Sicilian co-ops
Theodoros Rakopoulos (Volume 2015, Issue 71)

JOURNAL OF LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Special Issue on Corporate Responsibility (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Exceptions and being human: Before and in times of COVID-19 (Volume 4, Issue 1)

Customary law and the mediation of witchcraft accusations in Eastern Nicaragua
Johan Wedel (Volume 3, Issue 1)

LEARNING AND TEACHING
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences

Volume 14, Issue 2

Volume 14, Issue 1

Walking on the Edge: Educational Praxis in Higher Education (Volume 13, Issue 3)

Volume 13, Issue 2

Volume 13, Issue 1

MIGRATION AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research

The Stakes of Sanctuary (Volume 4)

Recentering the South in Studies of Migration (Volume 3)

MUSEUM WORLDS
Advances in Research

Volume 9

Volume 8

Exhibition Review: Venenum, un Monde Empoisonné, Musée des Confluences
Mariana Françozo (Volume 6)

“Ceremonies of Renewal”: Visits, Relationships, and Healing in the Museum Space
Laura Peers (Volume 1)

RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research

The Personal and the Political (Volume 11)

Francis, a Criollo Pope
Valentina Napolitano (Volume 10)

SIBIRICA
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies

Checking in on Sakha Studies (Volume 20, Issue 2)

Relating to Place (Volume 20, Issue 1)

Vladimir Arsen’ev’s Life (Volume 19, Issue 3)

Movement and Transformation (Volume 19, Issue 2)

Asia in the Russian Imagination (Volume 19, Issue 1)

The Concept of the “Field” in Early Soviet Ethnography: A Northern Perspective
Dmitry V. Arzyutov and Sergei A. Kan (Volume 16, Issue 1)

Writing the History of the Northern “Field”: An Introductory Note
Dmitry V. Arzyutov (Volume 16, Issue 1)

SOCIAL ANALYSIS
The International Journal of Anthropology

Calculation and Agency: Ontologies of Divination (Volume 65, Issue 2)

Volume 65, Issue 1

Theopolitics in/of the Americas (Volume 64, Issue 4)

Volume 64, Issue 3

Beyond the Social Contract: An Anthropology of Tax (Volume 64, Issue 2)

Volume 64, Issue 1

Narratives of the Invisible: Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia
Vanessa Elisa Grotti and Marc Brightman (Volume 60, Issue 1)

Other Open Access Journals

ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice

ASPASIA
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History

Special Forum on Socialist Masculinities (Volume 15)

Volume 14

Volume 13

DEMOCRATIC THEORY
An Interdisciplinary Journal

Volume 8, Issue 1

Reflecting on Fifty Years of Democratic Theory: Carole Pateman in Conversation with Graham Smith
Carole Pateman and Graham Smith (Volume 6, Issue 2)

REGIONS AND COHESION
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion

Building resilience beyond the crisis (Volume 11, Issue 2)

Making the “new normal” the “new sustainable” (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Securitization, alterity, and the state: Human (in)security on an Amazonian frontier
Marc Brightman and Vanessa Grotti (Volume 4, Issue 3)

THEORIA
A Journal of Social and Political Theory

The Azanian Philosophical Tradition (Volume 68, Issue 168)

Volume 68, Issue 167

Volume 68, Issue 166

Open Access Articles

BOYHOOD STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Journal

Challenging Dominant Representations of Marginalized Boys and Men in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities
Steven Roberts and Karla Elliott (Volume 13, Issue 2)

A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth
Christian Ungruhe and James Esson (Volume 10, Issue 1)

CONTENTION
The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
Volumes 1-4 are Open Access

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS

Contagious Humanism in Early Nineteenth-Century German-Language Press
Heidi Hakkarainen (Volume 15, Issue 1)

EUROPEAN COMIC ART

Liv Strömquist’s Fruit of Knowledge and the Gender of Comics
Mike Classon Frangos (Volume 13, Issue 1)

Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age: Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Saló
Javier Muñoz-Basols and Marina Massaguer Comes (Volume 11, Issue 1)

FRENCH POLITICS, CULTURE & SOCIETY

Black October: Comics, Memory, and Cultural Representations of 17 October 1961
Claire Gorrara (Volume 36, Issue 1)

GIRLHOOD STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Journal

“This Is My Story”: The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography
Rosie Walters (Volume 10, Issue 3)

Girlhood and Ethics: The Role of Bodily Integrity
Mar Cabezas and Gottfried Schweiger (Volume 9, Issue 3)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS

Voices that Matter?: Methods for Historians Attending to the Voices of the Past
Josephine Hoegaerts (Volume 47, Issue 1)

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL QUALITY

The Curious Case of Slovakia: Regime Preferences Thirty Years after the Velvet Revolution
Zuzana Reptova Novakova (Volume 10, Issue 2)

The Impact of Trust on the Quality of Participation in Development: The Case of Ukraine
Tadashi Hirai (Volume 10, Issue 2)

Evolutionary Thermodynamics and Theory of Social Quality as Links between Physics, Biology, and the Human Sciences
Jaap Westbroek, Harry Nijhuis, and Laurent van der Maesen (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Pathways to Empowerment: The Social Quality Approach as a Foundation for Person-Centered Interventions
Judith R. L. M. Wolf and Irene E. Jonker (Volume 10, Issue 1)

JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA, MEMORY AND SOCIETY

“Historical Falsification” as a Master Trope in the Official Discourse on History Education in Putin’s Russia
Julie Fedor (Volume 13, Issue 1)

JOURNEYS
The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing

Non “Religious” Knowing in Pilgrimages to Sacred Sites: Greek Cypriots’ “return” Pilgrimages to the Monastery of Apostolos Andreas (Cyprus)
Evgenia Mesaritou (Volume 21, Issue 1)

NATURE AND CULTURE

Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life: Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research
Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski and Katharina Reindl (Volume 15, Issue 2)

PROJECTIONS
The Journal for Movies and Mind

Aesthetics of Stereoscopic Cinema
Barbara Flueckiger (Vol. 6, Issue 1)

TRANSFERS
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

Place Making in Transit: Literary Interventions at the Airport and in the Underground
Emma Eldelin and Andreas Nyblom (Vol. 11, Issue 1)

(Re)Constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline: Continuity and Change of (Post)Socialist Infrastructure
Olga Povoroznyuk (Vol. 10, Issue 2-3)

State of Uncertainty: Educating the First Railroaders in Central Sakha (Yakutiya)
Sigrid Irene Wentzel (Vol. 10, Issue 2-3)