Transformation of the german political party system

Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience in a comparative and historical framework. Evaluation the performance of the German parties and party system in dealing with prob...

Organic cinema

Presents conceptual parallels between modern cinema and modern architecture. Approaches director Béla Tarr through the particularities of Hungarian culture. Develops the theoretical discourse on Slow Cinema or “Contemplative Cinema” emergent in contemporary philosophy of film.

The servants of empire

In the late 1890s through the 1940s, Germany enacted race-based population policies in Southwest Africa which instrumentalized German women as colonists. The Servants of Empire engages the history of these colonial operatives, mostly comprised of poor, white women, as they became an unsettling ...

Writing democracy

The text was inspired by the 2014 bicentenary of the Norwegian Constitution which is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe The volume examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries The collection ...

Bulldozer capitalism

Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.

Becoming a subject

Focusing on the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), the last major conflict in Europe before the end of the Cold War, this study examines the political prisoners whose fate encapsulates the dramatic conflicts and contradictions of that dark era. New sources such as prisoners' letters, memoirs, and off...

Shadowlands

Describes how Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. An innovative study tracing the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis extending from the Great War to th...

Crime and punishment in jewish law

The Bible presents only a small portion of the laws necessary for a state to function. Nevertheless, whole tractates of the Talmud discuss a wide variety of legal issues both civil and criminal. Although the jurisdiction of the beth din was limited in every land where Jews have lived, the schol...

The rise and fall of community studies

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 unive...

Silence

This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works—how it is implicated in the construction of meaning—can we arrive at the elusive roots of power in all its dimensions. Silence becomes the currency of power by delineating the margins o...

Emerging technologies and museums

Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonst...

Tarzan was an eco-tourist

Astonishment and evocation

International scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. Covers the evocative power of visual ar...

Rural property and economy in post-communist albania

For nearly half a century, Albania had been one of the most isolated and enigmatic countries in the world, where the confiscation of private property was more thoroughly accomplished than anywhere else in Europe. In an abrupt and radical turnaround beginning in 1991, the bulk of the country's l...

Nurturing the other

A global history of right-wing terrorism

Provides the first comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of global right-wing terrorism since the 19th century and examines the terrorists’ motivations, goals, and targets. Analyzes the transnational networks that have existed between right-wing terrorist groups since the 19th century...

Narrating the nation

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this vol...

Haunting futures

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Po...

Calling on the community

There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. This series of studies contributes to a better understanding of public par...

Mythology and symbolism of eurasia and indigenous americas

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us tha...

Bedouin of mount sinai

Based on fieldwork over ten years Builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world.

Museum, place, architecture and narrative

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and natio...

The kinning of foreigners

Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to count...

The romance of crossing borders

Explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. Sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves. Explains how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.

Gender issues in jewish law

Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah General Editor: Walter Jacob

Collecting educational media

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.

Encounters with modernity

First book-length study that charts the Catholic Church in West Germany and its pastoral practice during the first three decades of the post-war period. Major reconsideration and historical reflection of the case in favour of secularization theory. New approach to 20th century German...

Yiddish transformed

Yiddish Transformed explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish in Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1914 by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as reflection...

A fragmented landscape

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe since 1945. An analysis of the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalize or restrict reproductive rights.

Taking our water for the city

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one pla...

The museum of mankind

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years’ service with the Department is a critical appreciation of its ac...

Food health

Provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. Each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in ...

The agendas of tibetan refugees

Comprehensive and exhaustive history of the installation in exile of the Tibetan refugees. New light on the relationship between the Tibetan Refugees and their Western patrons. Explains its success through the negotiation, strategies and work of the Tibetan Refugees. Description of a...

Anglo-american relations and the transmission of ideas

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyd...

Outside looking in

Offers a new look at the problem of Holocaust universalization; a volume of 12 essays, based on new research, whose contributors come from all over the world. Demonstrates how the Holocaust was universalized in real time and the actual process of universalization in the non-Western world...

Theorising media and practice

Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the...

More than a music box

Since the rise of television, much radio consists of 'capsule' news and music formats which are heard as background to other activities. However the medium offers a great deal more. This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific...

Food culture

Offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. Unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines. Includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practi...

A world history of mobility

In this comprehensive world history of (auto)mobility, Gijs Mom draws upon his expertise within the field to assess the past and present of road cultures, and hypothesize its future. From climate change and capitalism to decolonization and gender, this volume spotlights the car’s influence on o...

Tourism and informal encounters in cuba

Explores touristic encounters and relationships from the perspectives both of locals and of tourists. Examines and compares a range of relationships, from tourism harassment to market exchange, hospitality, friendship, festive and sexual relationships. Reopens, in a new light, the ke...

Beyond the veil

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.

Shaping tomorrow's world

Shaping Tomorrow’s World is an award-winning volume that documents the history of futures studies using extensive archival material and rich analysis of the debates surrounding the limits of fields growth.

Transnational nomads

There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions. This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich ...

Quotas

Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.