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Women’s Equality Day

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated each year on August 26th to commemorate the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Today the observance of Women’s Equality Day has grown to mean much more than just sharing the right to the vote, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Numerous […]

EDITOR INTERVIEW: Representing 21st-Century Migration In Europe

ANA BELÉN MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA is Associate Professor at ISSA School of Applied Management, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). She teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and World Literatures in English.

¶ Posted 03 May 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, cultural studies, europe, forced mobility, identity, literary studies, media, migration, Nelson González Ortega, politics, refugees

Author interview (PART 2): ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH on A MAGPIE’S TALE

In the concluding part of our discussion of her new book A Magpie’s Tale, Anna tells us about the family she stayed with for the best part of a year – with sometimes as many as ten people in their small, two-room house – and how dramatic economic and political changes drastically changed the lives […]

¶ Posted 07 February 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, author interview, central Asia, ethnology, fieldwork, kazakh, migration, mongolia, new books, post-soviet, sociology

BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY

To mark this year’s Australia Day we present a selection of our latest titles on aspects of in Australia. Here are paperbacks, eBooks, and hardbacks on everything from health care for the elderly to film and song, the lives and struggles of the indigenous population, and how the nation has faced its colonial legacies.

¶ Posted 26 January 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, australia, cultural studies, indigenous culture, indigenous societies, indigenous studies, sociology

What the Berghahn team recommends

We share what the Berghahn staff is currently reading and a scholarly reading from Berghahn Books we recommend.

¶ Posted 06 September 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, archaeology, Berghahn Open Anthro, currently reading, fiction, film and media studies, heritage studies, history, live arts, museum studies, national read a book day, non-fiction, Open Access, Shakespeare, sociology, women's history, women's studies

Resilience and transformation in the Vietnamese marketplace

by Kirsten W. Endres, author of Market Frictions: Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

¶ Posted 30 November 2021 † Berghahn Books § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, sociology

The Story behind ’Crafting Chinese Memories’

by Katherine Swancutt Katherine Swancutt is the editor of Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling.

¶ Posted 15 November 2021 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § From Idea to Book § In Their Own Words § Meet the Author ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, cultural studies, Memory studies, new books

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

by Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner, editors of Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison We open our new edited collection Hope and Insufficiency by traveling the world in workshops. Three capacity building events, ranging from Paramaribo to Addis Ababa, sketched as thumbnails, form our introductory paragraph. These three events, drawn from thousands, simply […]

¶ Posted 10 November 2021 † Berghahn Books § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, hope and insufficiency, new books, theory and methodology

Reading Against Racism: a Berghahn Collection

ANNOUNCING:Reading Against Racisma Berghahn Collection Following an initial proposal for lasting solidarity in June of 2020, Berghahn Books committed to joining the global academic community and our publishing peers in challenging racism. Since then, we have fostered company-wide conversations on how best to contribute in perpetuity to that cause from the vantage point of our publishing program. Through establishing a new […]

¶ Posted 02 November 2021 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: berghahn collection, berghahn online, digital resources, journals, podcast, race, racism, reading against racism, resources, Salon B

German Unity Day

Two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on 28 November 1989, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced a 10-point program calling for the two Germanys to expand their cooperation with the view toward eventual reunification. On 18 May 1990, the two German states signed a treaty agreeing on monetary, economic and social union. On October […]

¶ Posted 02 October 2018 † Berghahn Books § Blog § In the News § Journals ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: divided germany, European history, german history, german politics and society, german studies, german unification, German Unity Day, Germany, history, journal featured, new book releases, new books, new in paperback, politics

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