Placemaking in a World of Movement

Annika Lems

Volume 35, EASA Series

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives.

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Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok

Sorcha Mahony

This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city’s slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one’s dreams.

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The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia

Jenny Munro

Volume 9, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Dani men and women, asking us to think differently about education as a trajectory for transformation and belonging, and ultimately revealing how dreams of equality are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

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Edited by Bonnie Urciuoli

Volume 4, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies

Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified “experiences” have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment.

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Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Edited by Azra Hromadžić and Monika Palmberger

Volume 4, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad.

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The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Arielle A. Smith

Volume 17, Epistemologies of Healing

This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore, especially in everyday life, and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the post-colonial intersection of knowledge, identity, and governmentality, and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable, plural, and fluid practice.

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Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World

Edited by Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez

Foreword by Katharine Charsley

Volume 3, Worlds in Motion

This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world.

Read: Introduction: Intimate Mobilities and Mobile Intimacies

Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present

Dolores L. Augustine

Volume 24, Protest, Culture & Society

Combining analyses of social history, popular culture, social movement theory, and histories of science and technology, it offers a compelling narrative of a key episode in the recent history of popular resistance.

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Monuments and Memory after 1989

Anna Saunders

Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts.

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Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings

Mili Mass

Translated from the Hebrew by Jonathan Orr-Stav

Marshalling her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on non-consensual, confidential adoption in Israel, Mass describes legal proceedings following the Israeli state petition that declares children eligible for adoption because of alleged parental incapability, and explores the politics of state intervention in the parent/child relationship.

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Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

Edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen

 Memory Unbound places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in the field to recast our understanding of memory’s distinctive variability.

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History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present

Edited by Hugo García, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, and Cristina Clímaco

“This rich and comprehensive book opens up around the historiographical question of antifascism a series of passionate debates of which the last word has not been said.” • Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire

Read Introduction: Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century

Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945

David D. Roberts

“This is a highly sophisticated synthesis of key debates and potential new directions in scholarship on fascism. It rests on a phenomenal grasp of the literature and represents a magisterial stock-taking that is essential reading for specialists.” · Christopher Dillon, King’s College London

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Germany from 1945 to the Present

Edited by Cornelia Wilhelm

Preface by Konrad Jarausch

Volume 1, Contemporary European History

“…an overall excellent contribution to the history of migration and diversity in Germany. Surely not only historians will welcome Wilhelm’s fine collection.” · Contemporary Austrian Studies

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Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe

Edited by Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen

“This volume is a welcome and important contribution, offering much material and inspiration for further case studies and comparative overviews.” • Forschungen zur Baltischen Geschichte

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Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

Edited by Lynda Mannik

Volume 35, Forced Migration

“This book is highly original in its emphasis on representations of enforced sea journeys and their memorialisations. Many, including myself, would like it on their shelf for teaching and reference.” · Michael Pugh, University of Bradford

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