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Launching the Ethnographic Case

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Mattering Press is very happy to announce the launch of a new, experimental, Open Access book: The Ethnographic Case, edited by Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski. The interactive launch will take place at the Displacements virtual conference, the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. The conference runs from April 19th to April 21st 2018. Throughout the…Read more

First books: Imagining Classrooms

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Imagining classrooms: Stories of children, teaching and ethnographyVicki MacknightPublished: July 2016 – Buy paperback (£15) – delivery time approximately 1 week (not the longer timelines currently displayed on Amazon)– Download pdf (Mattering Press is a registered charity. For those who can, please consider making a donation to support the press)– ePub, Mobi, and HTML versions available shortly…Read more

First books: Practising Comparison

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Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations Edited by Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana HrdličkováPublished: July 2016 – Buy paperback (£15) – delivery time approximately 1 week (not the longer timelines currently displayed on Amazon)– Download pdf (Mattering Press is a registered charity. For those who can, please consider making a donation to support the press)– ePub, Mobi, and HTML versions…Read more

First books: Modes of Knowing

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Modes of Knowing: Resources from the BaroqueEdited by John Law and Evelyn RuppertPublished: July 2016 – Buy paperback (£18) – delivery time approximately 1 week (not the longer timelines currently displayed on Amazon)– Download pdf (Mattering Press is a registered charity. For those who can, please consider making a donation to support the press) – ePub, Mobi, and HTML versions available…Read more

First books: On Curiosity

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On Curiosity: The Art of Market SeductionFranck CochoyTranslation: Jaciara T. LiraPublished: July 2016 – Buy paperback (£15) – delivery time approximately 1 week (not the longer timelines currently displayed on Amazon)– Download pdf (Mattering Press is a registered charity. For those who can, please consider making a donation to support the press)– ePub, Mobi, and HTML versions available shortly A…Read more

The first four books will be…

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We are proud and excited to be able to reveal the first four Mattering Press books, which will be published in April 2016. They are: On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction Franck Cochoy What draws us towards a shop window display? What drives us to grab an offer, or to peruse the pages of an enticing…Read more

Summer 2016: Mattering Press to launch

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Assembling the social, economic, and material resources that it takes to make a new press is taking a little longer than we expected. We now expect Mattering Press to be launching over the summer in 2016, not April as we perhaps ambitiously announced!  Chastened a little by our hubris, we will for the time being remain circumspect as to…Read more

Advance reviews of the first four books

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Science & Technology Studies has very generously reviewed advance copies of our first four books. The collection is published in their latest issue, which can be read here. Here follow some brief extracts, reprinted with permission of the journal: Gay Hawkins’ review of On Curiosity, by Franck Cochoy […] One of the longstanding critiques of STS approaches…Read more

Mattering Press launch event, 25th July

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Mattering Press will launch on Monday 25th July. From this date, all its books will be available to purchase, as well as to download for free.  To celebrate, we are hosting a launch event in London in the evening. Please see the invitation below and pass on to anyone who might be interested.  Mattering, Knowing, Comparing:…Read more

First four books: available to buy and download

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We are proud to be able to announce that the first four Mattering Press books are now available to buy and to download for free as a pdf, ePub, and Mobi versions, and to read online.  The books are: On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction Franck Cochoy What draws us towards a shop window display? What drives us to grab an…Read more