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September 2025 Critiquing Neoliberalism
Art and Activism in Post-Recession Dublin
Morningstar, N.
Following the 2008 recession in Ireland, its creative economy reflects broader societal shifts, including rising nationalism. This book explores how young activists and artists, facing precarious housing and labour conditions, engaged in campaigns – particularly for reproductive rights and affordable housing.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies
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September 2025 The Rise and Fall of Community Studies
An Introduction to the Anthropology of Europe
Parkin, R.
This book provides a partial retrospective on the field of anthropology of Europe, offering a rich collection of ethnographic summaries from across the continent. It will be of interest to students and academics seeking a survey of this branch of anthropology, whether for private study or university courses.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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September 2025 Rethinking a Radical Reputation
An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience
Kenti-Kranidioti, M.
This book explores the neighbourhood of Exarcheia in Athens through its tensions and contradictions and how they coexist to maintain particular historical and political narratives through an ethnographic study of stories and discussions with residents of the area.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
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September 2025 Animal Genocide and its Aftermath
The Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf
Chare, N.
An exacting assessment of the bounty policies that facilitated the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf, Animal Genocide and its Aftermath re-evaluates the legal, political, and social definition of animal killing, proposing it constitutes a form of genocide that requires a historical and cultural reckoning.
Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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September 2025 The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture
Adamowicz-Pośpiech, A. (ed)
Innovatively bringing together scholars of various nationalities and communities, The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture seeks to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work, highlighting how his approach to questions of moral ambiguity and colonialism influence the cultural output of a modern, globalized world.
Subject: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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September 2025 German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945
Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland
Kennedy, K.
Analyzing the correlation between the educational system and ideas about religion, community, and nationhood, German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945 highlights how an investment in children’s moral and national education united the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras, providing a vital lens for charting the continuities and changes within German society.
Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Genocide History
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October 2025 Nothing Without Tourism
Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps
Leitenberg, D.
In the era of the Anthropocene, tourism represents both the threats of ruthless capitalism and the ideals of a good life. Nothing Without Tourism explores this paradox from the perspective of those who depend on tourism in the Swiss Alps, as they reflect on a long history of ‘touristification’ and face an uncertain future.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Travel and Tourism
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October 2025 Inhabiting Silence
An Anthropologist in the Cloister
Sbardella, F.
This volume is the result of observant participation in which the ethnographer is a protagonist social actor in two French monasteries of Discalced Carmelite nuns. The author experiences and narrates details of their everyday life that usually remain unseen but contribute to shaping community-building processes and, at the same time, construe the religious woman.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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October 2025 Towards an Anthropology of Psychology
Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare
Bruun, M. K. & Hutten, R. (eds)
Challenging contemporary enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, the book calls for rethinking ‘psychology’ as an anthropological inquiry. It provides ethnographic studies of talking therapies, subjects, institutions, professionals and psychological persuasions, suggesting how anthropology can improve psychological healthcare.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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October 2025 The Spectral Within
Fascism, New Towns and their Contemporary Lives
Miltiadis, E.
Through the analytical lens of hunting, this book examines the efforts of Latina’s inhabitants to see their city as a meaningful social space, as they navigate the city’s multiple histories and the absent presence of the contested past.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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October 2025 Textual Heritage
Locating Textual Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities
Gerlini, E. & Giolai, A. (eds)
Focusing on the afterlives of textual traditions, primarily within East Asia, Textual Heritage highlights how textual practices offer a lens for understanding questions of canonization, embodiment, and circulation. In doing so, this volume advances a theory of “humanistic heritage studies” that mediates the overlap between literary and heritage studies.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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October 2025 Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews
A Documentary History of the Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944
Schulmann, J. F., Rich, D. A., & Molnár, J. (eds)
An illuminating chronicle of the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944-1945, Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews presents, for the first time in English, the key primary sources from the period, documenting how this genocidal program was facilitated by both the Nazi regime and the Hungarian state.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
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October 2025 Neubau Atmospheres
East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture
Ehrig, S.
An incisive analysis of East German cinematic, literary, and architectural case studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, Neubau Atmospheres examines the creative role the urban, built environment played in mediating the emotional and social experience of its residents, highlighting how this engagement constituted a cultural genre in its own right.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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October 2025 Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea
An Ethnography of Value
Moretti, D.
Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea uses dreams to explore the value of gold in a multigenerational community of New Guinean migrant miners. It broadens research on Melanesian mining ontologies and women’s role in mining. It explores how women creatively use dreams to challenge hegemonic masculine discourses that exclude them from accessing mineral wealth.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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November 2025 Reading War, Making Memory
Remembering the Bosnian War across Europe
Sindbæk Andersen, T., Ortner, J., & Borčak, F. W.
A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: “mnemonic migration.”
Subjects: Memory Studies Literary Studies Heritage Studies
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November 2025 European Perspectives on Transition
A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept
Sánchez León, P. & Cosovschi, A. (eds)
Offering a pioneering conceptual history of transition from a comparative perspective, this volume brings together eight case studies, ranging from the Third Wave of Southern Europe to the regime changes of Central and Eastern Europe, in order to rethink how we approach questions of temporality and transitional discourse.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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November 2025 Lurking Cold War
Life Through Historical Communion
Pipyrou, S.
Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, bureaucracy, and the family.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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November 2025 The Image that Never Ends
A Journey through Visual Anthropology
Canals, R.
This book explores the relationship between images and anthropology, offering a deeper understanding of how visual culture shapes our world. It addresses how anthropology can help us reflect on the role of images in daily life and reconsiders classic anthropological themes—ritual, kinship, and power—through the lens of contemporary visuality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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November 2025 Keywords of the Balkan Route
The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery
Hameršak, M., Pleše, I., & Škokić, T. (eds)
Focusing on the Balkan Route, this volume examines the criminalization of migration and emerging vocabularies of border control and resistance. Through keywords like Autonomy, Route, and Solidarity, contributors from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia offer ethnographic and interdisciplinary insights into restricted mobility, border violence, and migrant-led struggles.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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November 2025 Embracing Change in Costal Sri Lanka
Local Strategies in a Global Context
Stirrat, R. L.
Prioritising processes not structures based on the general premise that change rather than stasis is what characterises society, this book focuses on social change in a coastal village in Sri Lanka where change was the result of people reacting to processes at work in the wider economic and political context and were in no way passive victims to forces out of their control.
Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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November 2025 Decolonizing Europe
Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects
Ferraz de Matos, P. & Sansone, L. (eds)
This volume explores how race, colonial legacies, and structural inequality are addressed across diverse European contexts – north, central, eastern and southern – as well as in their entanglements with regions beyond Europe. It offers critical, grounded insights into the possibilities and challenges of decolonial thinking today.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History
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November 2025 Border Straddling Heritages
Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts
Mozaffari, A. & Harvey, D. (eds)
In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality, advancing a theory of heritage that recognizes its potential for simultaneously reflecting upon and generating borders.
Subjects: Heritage Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies
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November 2025 Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region
Surface-Evans, S. L. & Jackson, M. M. (eds)
In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s implications for transforming our understanding of present-day, social justice.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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November 2025 Food, Culture and Society in India
Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives
Patgiri, R. & Lalli, G. (Eds.)
Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Sociology Anthropology (General)