Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)

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Editor: Ullrich Kockel School of History, English and Politics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Previously published as Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures

Published since 1990, AJEC engages with current debates and innovative research agendas addressing the social and cultural transformations of contemporary European societies. The journal serves as an important forum for ethnographic research in and on Europe, which in this context is not defined narrowly as a geopolitical entity but rather as a meaningful cultural construction in people's lives, which both legitimates political power and calls forth practices of resistance and subversion. By presenting both new field studies and theoretical reflections on the history and politics of studying culture in Europe anthropologically, AJEC encompasses different academic traditions of engaging with its subject, from social and cultural anthropology to European ethnology and empirische Kulturwissenschaften.

In addition to the thematic focus of each issue, which has characterised the journal from its inception, AJEC now also carries individual articles on other topics addressing aspects of social and cultural transformations in contemporary Europe from an ethnographically grounded anthropological perspective. All such contributions are peer reviewed. Each issue also includes book reviews and reports on major current research programmes.


Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies



 

Current Issue

Volume 21 • Issue 2 • 2012


Editorial: European Ethnology, Europeanist Anthropology and Beyond
Ullrich Kockel
 

THEMATIC FOCUS: Europeanist Anthropology Beyond and Between: AJEC at 21

AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Susana Narotzky

AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE)
Deborah Reed-Danahy

Walking on Borderlines, Crossing Frontiers: Reflections on the Journeys of a Grenzgänger Journal
Ina-Maria Greverus

Anthropology Meets History: Investigating European Societies
Christian Giordano

Classic Fieldwork, Critique, and Engaged Anthropology: Into the New Century
George Marcus

Crossing Boundaries, Exploring the Frontier: Recollections of an Intercultural Wanderer
Ullrich Kockel

Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch (1947-2012)
Ina-Maria Greverus
 

GENERAL ARTICLES

Conflicting Visions of Urban Regeneration in a New Political and Economic Order: The Example of the Former Bicycle Factory ROG in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kornelia Ehrlich

The Fate of ‘Backwardness’: Portuguese Expectations over Modernisation
Catarina Frois

Development and Fishing in the Mediterranean: A Case Study of Catalonia
Rafael Böcker Zavaro
 

BOOK REVIEWS