Poetics of Animation

Medium, Context and Aesthetics

Paul Taberham

The first account of studio animation written from an historical-poetic perspective. Examining how animated films are created and experienced, Poetics of Animation brings together the study of visual style, performance, storytelling, and sound within their industrial and technological contexts, and offers an original contribution to animation studies.

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today

Temporality, Semantics, and Logic of Crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania

Edited by Martin Schulze Wessel

Examines the crisis and failure of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe during the interwar period, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Linking contemporary concerns about democratic fragility with historical analysis, the contributions explore political culture, constitutional traditions, religion, violence, and crisis discourse in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

A Global History of Right-wing Terrorism

Tobias Hof

Spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Hof traces the global evolution of right-wing terrorism across time and continents. Through vivid case studies set in diverse historical and social contexts, he reveals how terrorist movements have transformed, adapted, and connected through transnational networks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Business as Usual

The Germans and Their Law, 1943 to 1948

Benjamin Lahusen

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies History: World War II

Crafting Co-ops in Denmark

Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm

Maia Ebsen

Builders construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which come to structure their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. Crafting Co-ops in Denmark explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders working in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Decolonizing African Art History and Heritage

Unveiling Ritual Objects' Power as Spiritual Resilience

Claire Nalukenge

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies

Antarctic Materialities

Edited by Daniella McCahey and Maria Ximena Senatore

Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, Antarctic Materialities shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries.

Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Cyborgs of the Ecocene

What Robots Can Teach Us about Being Human in a Calamitous World

Louise Veling

This book explores the relationship between people, society and nature through the lens of robots and robotics research. It argues that a deeper understanding of the field leads to a greater appreciation for human embodiment and creativity, rather than a belief in imminent machine intelligence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Maritime Archaeology with Compassionate Community Connection

Edited by Jennifer Craig and Jay Mok

Contemporary public discourses about archaeology are routinely characterized by scientific and historical narratives that leave the water blank. This book weaves together voices from across the Asia Pacific region, revealing maritime archaeology as a labour of love rooted in connection, compassion and community.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Anthropology and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century

From Proto-Ethnographies to Self-Reflexive Travelogues

Edited by Horatiu Burcea

From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation to sustained fieldwork, from the picturesque to analytic thick description and from colonial typologies to Indigenous counter-readings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

Shakespeare & His Religious Afterlives

Edited by Marta Cerezo

Exploring Shakespeare’s religious afterlives, this volume examines translations, adaptations, and performances across Sweden, Spain, and the United States. Bringing together literary, theatrical, and religious perspectives, it highlights how Shakespeare’s works continue to shape religious interpretation, cultural meaning, and lived experience across diverse historical and social contexts.

Subject: Literary Studies

The Origins of Prejudice

Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs

Eugene Anderson, Kelley Coures, Carla Guerrón Montero, Tory L. Schendel-Vyvoda, Tobias Schwörer and John Edward Terrell

The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we believe to be true about the people, things, and events shaping our lives outside the hidden world of our bony skull. This book aims to show how we can learn from our possibly unintentional acts and self-serving misdeeds to live together in supportive, less conflicted ways.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Concepts of Culture

New Directions in Conceptual History

Edited by Mattias Pirholt and Michael Lipkin

An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to the methodological development in these fields of research.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Theorising Media and Time

Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era

Edited by Birgit Bräuchler and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. This book brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies Sociology

Camorra Networks

Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Media Machine of Naples’ Underworld

Salvatore Giusto

Focusing on the social peripheries of Naples, this book examines how Camorra, one of Europe’s most entrenched and violently coercive criminal organizations, runs music, television, and online media empires that collide with state-regulated cultural industries. It challenges the mainstream understanding of the relationship between media, democracy, and violence in Italy and beyond.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies

Urban Biopolitics

Lives and Spaces in Baltic and Eastern Europe

Andrey Makarychev

Comparing Estonia and Ukraine, this book explores urban governance through the lens of biopolitics. It examines how geopolitical pressures shape the management of urban populations, revealing how cities become key sites where lifestyle, security, and political calculation intersect.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies

The Spirit of Affect

Song-Dance Encounters in Matrilineal Congo

Carine Plancke

In rural Punu communities, song and dance are shaped through ritual encounters between humans and spirit beings. This ethnography explores how performance creates connection and participation in the water spirit world, offering a matrifocal perspective that rethinks affect and embodied life.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees

Forced Displacement, Creativity, and Agency

Lisa Gilman

Addressing forced migration as a global challenge, this book draws on multi-sited research to examine the arts and cultural dimensions of refugee contexts. Through narrative-driven accounts, it highlights refugee agency, creativity, and community-building, challenging reductive stereotypes and foregrounding refugees’ contributions to both home and host societies.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Writing Holocaust History

Christopher R. Browning

In this collection of essays, Browning explores the evolution of Holocaust historiography and illustrates key research trends. Taken together, these essays highlight the shifting focus in Holocaust scholarship, from Germany to Eastern Europe, policy making to implementation, leaders to participants, and perpetrators to victims.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II

Reading Hitler’s Victims

Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War

Ellen Pilsworth

The first study on the translation, publication and marketing of literary memoirs, by both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, for British readers during the years of Nazi rule. It reveals how German and Austrian Christians, rather than Jewish victims, came to represent ‘what Britain was fighting for’.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II

Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death 

Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry

Toby Widdicombe

Examining Shakespeare’s persistent counternarrative to mortality, this book explores the strategies through which his plays and poetry challenge death’s permanence. While engaging with existing scholarship on text and performance, it calls for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning and the enduring significance of his work.

Subject: Literary Studies

Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Javier Moreno-Luzón and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present