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Berghahn Chapter Samplers

So far we have made available 6 samplers featuring content from some important titles in the areas of:

• Archaeology
• Behind the Camera - Directors Collection
• Environmental Studies
• Women's Studies
• German Cinema
• European History

Some of Last Month's Top Journal Articles

1. Social reproduction as the reproduction of capitalism
2. Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
3. Data management in anthropology: The next phase in ethics governance?
4. Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions
5. Focaal: Marxian anthropology resurgent
6. Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility
7. Ethical Endeavours
8. ‘True love’ as a bureaucratic utopia: The case of bi‐national couples in Belgium
9. Grace Is Incommensurability in Commensuration: The Semantics of Bwan among Three Generations of Wa and Lahu Prophets
10. Kustaa Vilkuna 1902 - 1980

Blog

EnviroSociety

Is the UNFCCC climate governance truly pluralist? Examining the Loss and Damage Fund

Aritra Chakrabarty and Alexis Belle Tater

The UNFCCC has struggled to be effective in driving ambitious climate action due to several structural and procedural limitations. In the follow up to the Paris Agreement 2015, its reliance on consensus-based decision making has been impeded by divisions between developed and developing and small island nations due lack of inclusivity, lack of accountability, and use of technocratic dominant systems over Indigenous, traditional knowledge systems, etc.

Open Access

Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.

Blog

The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey

Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director

The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial.

FocaalBlog

Reorganize Production to Serve Life, Not Profit - An interview with Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel, Don Kalb, Maria Dyveke Styve, and Federico Tomasone

On 15 May 2025, Jason Hickel – economic anthropologist, leading degrowth theorist and author of popular works such as The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World – delivered a provocative lectio magistralis as the Third Annual Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) Lecture at the University of Bergen, sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Brussels Office (RFL). In his lecture, “The Struggle for Development in the Twenty-First Century”, Hickel rejected the idea that the development of the Global South can take place within the logic of extractive capitalism and economic imperialism...

Environment in History

International Perspectives

Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments