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December 2025 The Paradox of Difference
Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking
Doerr, N.
Exploring five paradoxes in how “difference” is constructed and navigated, this book critically examines discourse and practice across race studies, language education, and global mobility, offering fresh insights into the politics of difference and possibilities for alternative engagements.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Refugee and Migration Studies
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December 2025 Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility
Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India
Froerer, P.
Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, this book examines how the marginalized Adivasi (tribal) youth in rural India navigate the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Educational Studies Mobility Studies Sociology
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December 2025 Prophetic Histories
Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands
Timmer, J.
On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctive time-consciousness that reads the historical past and present as prophetic signs of an imminent future. This book examines how these ‘prophetic histories’ interweave biblical narrative, theological reflection, local accounts, kastom practice, spiritual journeys and Old-Testament political theory.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Development Studies
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December 2025 A Revelatory Pandemic
Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America
Barrios, R. & García-Acosta, V. (eds)
Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, and crisis into conversation, A Revelatory Pandemic subjects the hopeful expectations of post-pandemic change to social-scientific scrutiny across Latin America and challenges popular and scholarly assumptions about the causes and outcomes of crisis.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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December 2025 Facing Discrimination
Religion and Agency in Contemporary European Contexts
Lems, J. & Planet Contreras, A. (eds)
Through six micro-level studies from Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, Facing Discrimination offers insight into the dynamics of religious beliefs and bodily practices among those who are discriminated against. It examines how religion as a source of agency interacts with processes of marginalization.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology
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December 2025 The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe
Ihalainen, P., Lopez, R., Palonen, K., & te Velde, H. (eds)
In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in modern and contemporary Europe, Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde re-examine the trajectory of terms like ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’, in order to spotlight how profoundly the concept of representative democracy is shifting.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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December 2025 A History of the I.G. Farben Trial
Armament, Exploitation, Auschwitz
Lindner, S.
In this exacting examination of the history of the I.G. Farben trial, Stephan H. Lindner charts the build up and aftermath of this watershed event, in order to highlight its implications for understanding the complexities of corporate social responsibility and of putting the military-industrial complex on trial.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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December 2025 Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power
War, Diplomacy, and the Composite State
Tracy, J.
Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Peace and Conflict Studies
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December 2025 Torn is the Curtain
Early Film Cultures in Istanbul
Balan, C.
Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures within Istanbul and ever-changing ideas of social transformation, highlighting how emergent ideas of post-colonialism, Orientalism, and feminism impacted Turkish spectatorship culture.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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December 2025 Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning
Past and Present
Spinelli, R. & Lacy, R. (Eds.)
An overview of grieving and memorialization – from a diverse, international group of academics – ranging from traditional modes of expression to contemporary modes that revolve around the digital world.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Archaeology
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December 2025 Small Adults or Big Kids?
Exploring Archaeological and Bioarcheological Approaches to Adolescence
Avery, C. & Thacher, D. (eds)
This book explores the meaning of adolescence, a critical period of the life course, through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. By considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, this book investigates the lived experiences of adolescents in the past to further our understanding of past societies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Sociology
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December 2025 Investigating Online Heritage Crime
New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets
Huffer, D. & Handby, E. (Eds.)
Considering the correlation between new digital technologies and the growth of the online trafficking landscape, Investigating Online Heritage Crime conducts an investigative deep-dive into how these relatively under-researched "sites" of heritage crime operate and how they function within the wider social media ecosystem of platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Media Studies Archaeology
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January 2026 Outside Looking In
The World Universalizes the Holocaust
Goda, N. J. W. & Kissi, E. (Eds.)
Outside Looking In provides a fresh look at the problem of Holocaust universalization by examining how the historical experience of the Holocaust has been mediated by politicians, artists, journalists, legal theorists, essayists, filmmakers, and novelists amongst colonized societies or other marginalized groups.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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January 2026 Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe
Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen
Housden, M.
Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the impact of migration on the self-understanding of German authors Siegfried von Vegesack and Werner Bergengruen, and how their experiences of displacement in World War II shaped their authorship.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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January 2026 Georgian Migrant Women on the Move
Migration to Greece in Times of Crisis
Zmiejewski, W.
Shedding light on the invisible lives of Georgian women who migrated to Thessaloniki from the mid-1900s onward, Georgian Migrant Women on the Move reveals the challenges and turning points that emerge from the convergence of these different life worlds.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Mobility Studies