The third world in the global 1960s

the first book to analyze the 1960s from a Third World perspective. contains a wide geographical scope, and contains essays on Latin America, Africa and Asia.  attempts to uncover everyday people and their struggle with the geopolitics of the Cold War, and analyzes the Cold War from ...

Preservation and place

Historically significant archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer...

Fifty years of peasant wars in latin america

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

Bourdieu and social space

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work.  Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequal...

The rite of urban passage

This book investigates the dynamics of religious rituals as part of urban processes, offering a substantial contribution to ritual and urban studies. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach entwining ritual, urban and spatial theories. Although the book makes a substantial con...

Contrarian anthropology

Allow people to think about censorship, self and other Being an “ist” (e.g. feminist, Marxist etc.)  gets in the way of creativity How not to be a silo (e.g. specialized) anthropology –e.g.  from law to energy renewal What we can  learn from chronologies re: intellectual autobiog...

Food culture

Offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. Unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines. Includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practi...

Lobbying hitler

Lobbying in the Third Reich. Office and Bureaucratic Management in Nazi Germany. A comparison of successful liberal and failed (suicidal) conservative business leaders’ experiences in Nazi Germany. A comparison of how skeptical businessmen came to support the Nazi regime.

Business and industry in nazi germany

During the past decade, the role of Germany's economic elites under Hitler has once again moved into the limelight of historical research and public debate. This volume brings together a group of internationally renowned scholars who have been at the forefront of recent research. Their articles...

Organic cinema

Presents conceptual parallels between modern cinema and modern architecture. Approaches director Béla Tarr through the particularities of Hungarian culture. Develops the theoretical discourse on Slow Cinema or “Contemplative Cinema” emergent in contemporary philosophy of film.

Genocide and settler society

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with th...

War of extermination

Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, throu...

Parliament and parliamentarism

This cross-disciplinary collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty. Explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and...

Memory unbound

Studies memory as complex social, cultural, and medial processes. The first book to explore the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory in an integrated way  . Places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices to reshape...

Post-ottoman coexistence

Examines the peaceful co-existence of religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire. Investigates the reasons behind the breakdown of tolerance and the legacy of division from ethno-nationalist conflict post-empire. A discussion of both historical and contemporary practices of...

Enduring uncertainty

Original research on the lived experience of policies of deportation in the UK. Offers rich ethnographic data on the experience of border control. Original case study: Foreign-national offenders instead of other more studied groups such as undocumented, asylum seekers, etc. Inclu...

Marxism and film activism

This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics in their work, and how audiences have received them. It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology. Discussions range from the classic ...

New uses of bourdieu in film and media studies

A collection of essays demonstrating the enormous relevance of the key concepts of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the field of media studies. Demonstrates how they have been deployed as powerful tools of analysis, forging new avenues of inquiry in the process. Topics range fro...

U.s. foreign policy and the other

Investigates American identity and its effect on foreign relations. Systematic review of US foreign policy and their principal conceptions of the ‘Other’ that have animated US culture and discourse. Examines foreign relations over three centuries Excavates US cultural and diploma...

Pursuits of happiness

Waithood

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for r...

Going forward by looking back

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past di...

Unlocking the love-lock

A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book expl...

Rethinking jewishness in weimar cinema

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the signific...

Lands of the future

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwel...

Writing the great war

The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety...

Homo itinerans

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Shakespeare and biography

In the shadow of the great war

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effecti...

The politics of personal information

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Cinemas of boyhood

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding represen...

An enchantment of digital archaeology

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explo...

The paradoxical republic

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the poten...

Ecological nostalgias

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

Search after method

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other...

Antisemitism in galicia

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to...

Perestroika and the party

While studies of the impact of Gorbachev-era reforms have overwhelmingly focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations, this ambitious collection assesses their historical trajectories on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It moves beyond domestic politics and narrowly defined foreign relat...

When will we talk about hitler?

Observation of history classes to analyze student’s relationship to German history Adolescents appropriation of history within peer groups  Taking adolescents political position seriously  Analyzing schools, families and peer groups together, overstepping disciplinary frontiers ...

Post-ottoman topologies

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

Food and sustainability in the twenty-first century

Unlike the other books in the market, this volume brings a multidisciplinary focus to bear on the topic. The volume emphasises the symbiosis between different subject areas, and demonstrates the value in analysing food sustainability from multiple perspectives.   The disciplinary fulcrum...

Shakespeare and commemoration

Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, ...

Shakespeare and creative criticism

What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and the ethics of war

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.

The holocaust in bohemia and moravia

This book is the only recent account on the Holocaust in Bohemia Moravia (Last in English 15 years ago) Study is based on tons of new and unknown material , including weekly Jewish community reports to Eichmann, For the first time includes emphasis on individual and collective respon...

Mobile urbanity

 explores the relationship between mobility and urban transformation using the case of Somalis in the East African region  provides an up to date study of the economies and politics around Somalis in Kenya and the wider East African region  offers new insights into the topic of urban...

Voices on war and genocide

Resisting persecution

Borders across healthcare

Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness...

Big capital in an unequal world

Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.