EASA Newsletter 72-0718

Berghahn book series news

New publications and discounts from EASA’s book series publisher

New publications and discounts from EASA’s book series publisher

As of June 1st 2018, EASA members are entitled to a 25% discount off any Berghahn title when ordering via the Berghahn website. Simply insert the code EASA at checkout. See below a selection of newly-published titles in the Series this Spring.

New in Paperback in EASA Series:

Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Volume 26: April 2018 $34.95/£24.00

Edited by Kathryn Rountree

Though all Pagan and Native Faith movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals and agendas are diverse. Contributors to this volume draw on ethnographic cases within Europe to explore the interplay of nationalism and transnationalism within these recently emerging and diverse groups.


Being-Here: Placemaking in a World of Movement

Volume 35: May 2018 $120.00/£85.00

By Annika Lems

By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.


Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Volume 34: April 2018 $110.00/£78.00

Edited by Adolfo Estalella and Tomás Sánchez Criado

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.


Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest-Shrinking City

Volume 33: March 2018 $120.00/£85.00

By Felix Ringel

Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.


Messy Europe: Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

Volume 32: February 2018 $120.00/£85.00

Edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl

Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.