1994 - 2024

30 Years of Independent Publishing!

Berghahn Books was founded in 1994 by Marion Berghahn; however, the roots of the firm go back much further and continue to influence our mission to this day. In celebrating where we are today, we do so by not only looking ahead, but also by looking back on the journey that has taken us where we are today and laid the foundations that guide us into the future.

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.

Blog

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.

FocaalBlog

Between Confrontation and Silent Discipline: Working-Class Dilemmas under Javier Milei’s Far-Right Government in Argentina

Julia Soul

With the triumph of Javier Milei in Argentina’s November 2023 national election, the country has followed the contemporary global trend of electing far-right governments.

Featured Series

Interspecies Encounters

The last decade has seen significant theoretical advances in critical animal studies, posthumanism, science and technology studies, perspectivism, and multispecies anthropology. This groundbreaking series offers innovative works in the social sciences, which have risen to the challenge of engaging across species boundaries: humans, animals, insects, plants, and microbes, and expands methodological and theoretical approaches in the course of ethnographic engagements with other species.

EnviroSociety

Rising from the Ashes: Rural Communities in Portugal’s Fiery Landscapes

Filipa Soares, Luísa Schmidt, & Ana Delicado. Instituto de Ciências

On June 17th, 2017, Ferraria de São João (hereafter Ferraria), a small-sized village in central Portugal remotely located at the top of a hill, was encircled by flames.

Open Access

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Special Issue

Materialities of Age and Ageing.
Guest Editors: Cordula Endter, Anamaria Depner and Anna Wanka

Against the backdrop of demographic change and its effects on our everyday lives, social and cultural anthropology is increasingly paying attention to the specific ways in which people grow old(er).