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Critiquing Neoliberalism
Art and Activism in Post-Recession Dublin
Natalie Morningstar
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
The Rise and Fall of Community Studies
An Introduction to the Anthropology of Europe
Robert Parkin
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
Rethinking a Radical Reputation
An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience
Maria Kenti-Kranidioti
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
Animal Genocide and its Aftermath
The Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf
Nicholas Chare
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)
The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture
Edited by Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
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)
German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945
Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland
Katharine Kennedy
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
Nothing Without Tourism
Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps
Danaé Leitenberg
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
Inhabiting Silence
An Anthropologist in the Cloister
Francesca Sbardella
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
Towards an Anthropology of Psychology
Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare
Edited by Mikkel Kenni Bruun and Rebecca Hutten
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
The Spectral Within
Fascism, New Towns and their Contemporary Lives
Elena Miltiadis
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
Textual Heritage
Locating Textual Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities
Edited by Edoardo Gerlini and Andrea Giolai
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)
Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews
A Documentary History of the Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944
Edited by Judit Fejes Schulmann, David Alan Rich, and Judit Molnár
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
Neubau Atmospheres
East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture
Stephan Ehrig
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
Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea
An Ethnography of Value
Dan Moretti
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.