The time period since my last letter was mostly marked by completion or near-completion of several manuscripts. Of course, the work on the series follows the already established procedures for evaluating book proposals and book manuscripts, by the previous Book series editors – so the current productive output should be seen in terms of a longue durée (as the Annales scholars would put it). As it turns out, the next seven months might be one of the most productive periods in terms of publications of this series. At the time of the writing of this report, a book by Čarna Brković, Managing Ambiguity: How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Volume 31 of the EASA Book Series) was published. This is also the first volume published with the slightly revised book cover, following suggestions from members of the Advisory Board, and some authors. Two more volumes are forthcoming, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, and Andrea Smith (eds.), Messy Europe: Whiteness and Crisis in a Postcolonial World, and Felix Ringel’s Back to the Post-Industrial Future: A Presentist Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest Shrinking City. With two more volumes close to the final stage, Volumes 32-35 might be published by April 2018, making this period a very productive one for the series, and for our authors.
Three more volumes are nearing completion, and I would like to use this opportunity to invite all EASA members to submit their proposals, and to help maintain this series as one of the most exciting publishing projects in contemporary social sciences.
Aleksandar Bošković
Professor of Anthropology
University of Belgrade