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Berghahn Books Librarian’s Newsletter – February 2010

Dear Colleagues,
 
Welcome to the February  issue of Berghahn Books’ Monthly e-newsletter!
 
Created especially for our library community, each issue features updates on our latest new book title and journal issue releases as well as keep you informed of the latest developments from Berghahn’s print and online publishing programs.
 
We always welcome and appreciate your feedback and suggestions on how we can continue to provide you with an email newsletter that meets your needs.
 
With best wishes on behalf of all of us at Berghahn Books,

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In This Issue
Latest Titles
Newly released Journal Issues
New Catalogs 
Recent Awards

LATEST TITLES

CONTESTED NATIONALISM
Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s
Nina Caspersen
 
"Empirically, the book makes a major contribution to the study of intra-Serb relations and rivalries during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia… it constructs a new theoretical framework that will allow for more nuanced and accurate explanations of intra-ethnic competition and inter-ethnic conflicts."  •  Peter Viggo Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=CaspersenContested]


THE PARADOXICAL REPUBLIC
Austria 1945–2005
Oliver Rathkolb
Translated from the German by Otmar Binder

"This book  is already considered a standard work."  •  Die Zeit

"The way Rathkolb connects the controlled democracy to the economy is typical for this book: in concentric circles, in apparent detours, he leads [the reader] through the labyrinth of Austria. Always critical, very readable – and enlightening."  •  Die Tageszeitung

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=RathkolbParadoxical]


KRISTEVA IN FOCUS
From Theory to Film Analysis
Katherine J. Goodnow

Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love. In addition to a selection of contemporary mainstream films, the major films for analysis are New Zealand “New Wave” films such as Alison Maclean’s Kitchen Sink and Crush; Vincent Ward’s Vigil; and Jane Campion’s Sweety, An Angel at My Table, and The Piano.

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=GoodnowKristeva]


CONCEPTUALIZING IRANIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Past and Present Perspectives
Edited by Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi

During recent years, attempts have been made to move beyond the Eurocentric perspective that characterized the social sciences, especially anthropology, for over 150 years. A debate on the “anthropology of anthropology” was needed, one that would consider other forms of knowledge, modalities of writing, and political and intellectual practices. This volume undertakes that challenge: it is the result of discussions held at the first organized encounter between Iranian, American, and European anthropologists since the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=NadjmabadiConceptualizing]


THE NEW MEDIA NATION
Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication
Valerie Alia

Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries. Based on more than twenty years of research, observation, and work experience in Indigenous journalism, film, music, and visual art, this volume includes specialized studies of Inuit in the circumpolar north, and First Nations peoples in the Yukon and southern Canada and the United States.

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=AliaNew]

NEWLY RELEASED JOURNAL ISSUES

ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
Volume 16, Issue 3

[View the Table of Contents: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/antiac/2009/00000016/00000003]

CRITICAL SURVEY
Volume 21, Issue 3
Shakespeare and 'the personal story'

[View the Table of Contents: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/csurv/2009/00000021/00000003]

FRENCH POLITICS, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Volume 27, Issue 3
Aimé Césaire: Man of the World, Master of the Word

[View the Table of Contents: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/fpcs/2009/00000027/00000003]

GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Volume 27, Issue 4

[View the Table of Contents: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/gerpol/2009/00000027/00000004]

GIRLHOOD STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Journal   
Volume 2, Issue 2

[View the Table of Contents: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/gs/2009/00000002/00000002]

THEORIA
A Journal of Social and Political Theory
Number 121
Politics of Migration

[View the Table of Contents: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/theoria/2009/00000056/00000121] 

NEW CATALOGS

The Berghahn Books International Studies catalogue is available now online! To see a complete list of new and upcoming titles in the area just click the link to our PDF version below (3.4 Mb Download). 
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/cats/Berghahn-IntlStudies10.pdf.

RECENT AWARDS 

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal has been named WINNER OF THE 2009 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES!

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The Return of Jazz by Andrew Wright Hurley has been nominated for the 2010 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN HISTORICAL RECORDED SOUND RESEARCH!

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