With the next EASA biennial conference coming up in August in Stockholm, EASA Book Series (published by Berghahn Books, winner of the “AAA Executive Director’s Award of Excellence for Publishing in Anthropology”) continues to showcase outstanding works of EASA members – both as edited volumes and as authored ones. Since the last Newsletter, more volumes are nearing the publication stage: Felix Ringel’s Back to the Post-Industrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest Shrinking City, Tomás Sánchez Criado’s and Adolfo Estalella’s Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices, and Annika Lems’ Being-Here: Place Making in World of Movement, should all be published before the Stockholm conference.
At the same time, more manuscripts, from the ones dealing with intricacies of financial aid, to issues related to economic rights and wrongs, as well as contemplating specific challenges related to a maritime community on the Atlantic coast are in the process of being produced.
This is just a glimpse into the breadth of perspectives and the variety of highly relevant topics that are explored by the scholars contributing to this book series. As the world is becoming more globalized, so also is our series.
As some other major anthropological conferences take place this year, such as the IUAES congress in Florianópolis (Brazil), and the ASA conference in Oxford (UK), I am sure that many of our colleagues are working on subjects that can find an audience through the EASA Book Series, making their voices heard, and maintaining the series as one of the most exciting and original publishing projects in contemporary social sciences.
Aleksandar Bošković
Professor of Anthropology
University of Belgrade