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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 An Anthropology of Global Immunization
Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective
Irons, R., Gibbon, S., Cook, J. & Parkhurst, A. (eds)
This edited collection develops a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics. Presented through original research, An Anthropology of Global Immunization explore some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from HPV to COVID-19, HIV and beyond.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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January 2026 Everyday Invisibility
The Lives of African Women in Greece
Zaphiriou-Zarifi, Viki
In the wake of Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in stereotypical ways that heighten their exposure to discrimination and precarity.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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January 2026 Georgian 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 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
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January 2026 Emplaced Belief
Heritage and Religion Reconsidered
Johnston, J., Gibson, M., Hampson, J. & Whyte, N. (Eds.)
An innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. A wholistic approach is taken to considering emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations between religion and heritage.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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February 2026 Christianity, Colonialism and Indigenous History in French Polynesia
Advance into Past
Misaki, M.
This book illustrates how indigenous Christians perceive social change and how their historical perceptions inform the creation of their own Christianity in an increasingly modernised French Polynesian society.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Colonial History Sociology
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February 2026 Writing on the Move
Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing
Ounoughi, S. & Hannigan, T. (eds)
Although the practice of reading and writing typically requires stasis, travel writing emerges from movement. This book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts by asking questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as ‘travel writing’ in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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February 2026 Reconstruction of the Pakhtun Code of Life in a Changing Pakistan
Khan, A.
This book aims to give a faithful presentation of Pahktun reality by investigating the diverse and changing patterns of social relations among Pahktuns and considering the practice of gham khadee to be a manifestation of the code of life.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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February 2026 Where Saints Show Respect
Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power
Palumbo, B.
This book draws on three decades of ethnographic research to explore the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. By exploring rituals through which local society learns deep respect for those values, this study aims to offer a critical perspective on Sicilian modernity.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Anthropology of Religion
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February 2026 Practice Theory and the Biosocial
Microbes, Matter and Milieu
Shove, E., Blue, S. & Kelly, M.
From urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics, this book develops an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others. By demonstrating the relevance of social and practice theories, this study considers questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology Sociology
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February 2026 Black Lisbon
The Making of Anticolonial Internationalism in Portugal, 1910-1935
Cleminson, R.
An analysis of how ‘race’ and nation were conceptualised, mobilised and lived by colonised black Africans in Lisbon and in the Portuguese colonies across time.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies
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February 2026 Lives in Fragments
Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide
Yetkin, E., Maksudyan, N. & Çelik, A. (Eds.)
An examination of life stories that were fragmented and shattered through the historical violence of the Armenian genocide. Offers a nuanced understanding of genocide’s complex historical and social dimensions, and reflects on the history and memory of genocidal violence.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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February 2026 With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, and the History of Holocaust Historiography
Schlott, R. & Kansteiner, W. (eds)
Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) was a foundational text in the field of Holocaust historiography. Hilberg describes the persecution as a bureaucratic process involving the entire German society. This volume explores the origins of Hilberg’s study, debates in which it was implicated, its accomplishments and shortcomings.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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February 2026 Remembering Resistance
A Jewish Memoir from Nazi-Occupied Budapest, 1944-45
Eger, A., Frojimovics, K. & Kovács , É. (Eds.)
An illuminating chronicle of the life and work of Jewish couple, László and Eugenia Szamosi, liberating oppressed Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest, Remembering Resistance offers an unrivalled insight into a family’s personal history of resistance and provides a paradigm for mediating our methods of remembrance.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
$27.95 / £22.95 (epub format)