June 20th is designated World Refugee Day by the United Nations to bring awareness to the plight of millions of refugees throughout the world and also to honour their strength and perseverance. Berghahn Books publishes many studies on the lives and the plights of refugees globally. Find our latest titles here along with a selection of classic […]
¶
Posted 20 June 2023
† Berghahn Journals
§
Blog
‡
°
Also tagged: anthropology, Berghahn Open Anthro, deportation, displacement, forced migration, History and Refugee & Migration Studies, migration, migration and society, refugee and migration studies, refugees, World Refugee Day
On May 18th the worldwide museum community celebrates International Museum Day. This day is an occasion to raise public awareness on how important museums are in the enrichment of cultural exchange, development of society, and cooperation among people. For more information on the theme and calendar of events, visit the International Council of Museums webpage.
Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year until 2023 we are adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As libraries […]
April 26, 2023, Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.—The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and Berghahn Books are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement to transition the Studies in German History series to Open Access.
Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For […]
¶
Posted 17 April 2023
† Berghahn Journals
§
Blog
‡
°
Also tagged: anthropology, archaeology, Berghahn Open Anthro, cultural heritage, cultural studies, heritage studies, history, international day for monuments and sites, lgbtq, Memory studies, monuments and sites, religion, world heritage day
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial. There has been a 700% increase in downloads from 2019 when content was paywalled to 2022. We have seen a 200% increase by […]
We’re publishing twelve paperbacks in just two months. See them all here.
We are thrilled to be at the 2022 American Anthropological Association annual meeting (Seattle, November 9-13). We’re marking the occasion with some very special prices and free access to selected journals.
“As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction…” So reads a line from the blurb of Making Things Happen, Jane Murphy Thomas’ account of post-earthquake reconstruction in Pakistan. And, sadly, how prescient it was, for her book was published just weeks before the same nation experienced a […]
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
‡
°
Also tagged: anthropology, archaeology, Berghahn Open Anthro, books, currently reading, fiction, film and media studies, heritage studies, history, live arts, museum studies, national read a book day, non-fiction, Shakespeare, sociology, women's history, women's studies