Berghahn Series
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Series Editors:
Birgit Meyer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
Maruška Svašek, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics Queen's University, Belfast
During the last few years, a lively, interdisciplinary debate has taken place between anthropologists, art historians and scholars of material culture, religion, visual culture and media studies about the dynamics of material production and cultural mediation in an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity. Understanding ‘mediation’ as a fundamentally material process, this series provides a stimulating platform for ethnographically grounded theoretical debates about the many aspects that constitute relationships between people and things, including political, economic, technological, aesthetic, sensorial and emotional processes.
Submissions
Formal submissions should be sent directly to Berghahn Books. For more information on Berghahn's manuscript submission procedure, please look at the Info for Authors section on this web site. All submissions to this series, as well as any queries about the formal procedure, should be sent to Berghahn.
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Volume 16
Haunting Ruins
Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay
Edited by Valentina Gamberi and Chiara Calzana
Published: 2025 -
Volume 15
Reconstructing Homes
Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging
Edited by Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, Anna Kajander & Helmut De Nardi
Published: 2024 -
Volume 14
Rest in Plastic
Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Isabel Bredenbröker
Published: 2024 -
Volume 13
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Edited by Sasha Newell
Published: 2023 -
Volume 12
The Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Kayla Rush
Published: 2022 -
Volume 11
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Edited by Katherine Swancutt
Published: 2021 -
Volume 10
From Storeroom to Stage
Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
Alexandra Urdea
Published: 2018 -
Volume 9
Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Edited by Birgit Meyer and Mattijs van de Port
Published: 2018 -
Volume 8
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Edited by Milena Komarova and Maruška Svašek
Published: 2018
Afterword by Dominic Bryan -
Volume 7
Death, Materiality and Mediation
An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland
Barbara Graham
Published: 2016 -
Volume 6
Creativity in Transition
Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
Edited by Maruška Svašek and Birgit Meyer
Published: 2016 -
Volume 5
Having and Belonging
Homes and Museums in Israel
Judy Jaffe-Schagen
Published: 2016 -
Volume 4
The Great Reimagining
Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland
Bree T. Hocking
Published: 2015 -
Volume 3
Objects and Imagination
Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning
Edited by Øivind Fuglerud and Leon Wainwright
Published: 2015 -
Volume 2
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships
Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea
Ludovic Coupaye
Published: 2013 -
Volume 1
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Edited by Maruška Svašek
Published: 2012