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Introduction: Staying-With Palestine. Making and Remaking Postcolonial Worlds

Arpan Roy

Extrajudicial arrest, termination from employment, suspension of university enrollment, being declared persona non-grata (Karl 2025), police violence at demonstrations, harassment at airports, online doxxing, and, in the case of six-year old Wadea al-Fayoume, a martyrdom in a strange land—these are some of the ways in which solidarity with Palestine has, since October 2023, been rebuked in the Global North in unprecedented ways. We do not yet know the longue durée of how the annihilation of Gaza and the genocide of its people will recalibrate the way in which the world relates to Palestine.

Berghahn Chapter Samplers

So far we have made available 10 samplers featuring content from some important titles in the areas of:

• Anthropology
• Refugee & Migration Studies
• Health & Fertility Studies
• Archaeology
• Behind the Camera - Directors Collection
• Environmental Studies
• Women's Studies
• German Cinema
• European History
• German Studies

Some of Last Month's Top Journal Articles

1. Social reproduction as the reproduction of capitalism
2. Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
3. Data management in anthropology: The next phase in ethics governance?
4. Legends of Fordism: Between Myth, History, and Foregone Conclusions
5. Focaal: Marxian anthropology resurgent
6. Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility
7. Ethical Endeavours
8. ‘True love’ as a bureaucratic utopia: The case of bi‐national couples in Belgium
9. Grace Is Incommensurability in Commensuration: The Semantics of Bwan among Three Generations of Wa and Lahu Prophets
10. Kustaa Vilkuna 1902 - 1980

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EnviroSociety

Is the UNFCCC climate governance truly pluralist? Examining the Loss and Damage Fund

Aritra Chakrabarty and Alexis Belle Tater

The UNFCCC has struggled to be effective in driving ambitious climate action due to several structural and procedural limitations. In the follow up to the Paris Agreement 2015, its reliance on consensus-based decision making has been impeded by divisions between developed and developing and small island nations due lack of inclusivity, lack of accountability, and use of technocratic dominant systems over Indigenous, traditional knowledge systems, etc.

Open Access

Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.

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The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey

Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director

The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial.

Environment in History

International Perspectives

Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments