Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

発展途上国における洪水のリスク管理ハンドブック
Victor, Oluwasina / Proverbs, David et al. (eds.), Handbook of Flood Risk Management in Developing Countries. 384 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <689-448>
ISBN 978-0-367-74974-3 hard ¥41,310.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project managers, institutions and policy makers. Key stakeholders provide insights and perspectives on flood hazards, flood impacts, flood control and adaptation strategies across these regions. The inclusion of policy makers, emergency responders, leaders of key organizations and managers of flood defence projects makes this volume a unique addition to the flood management literature.The chapters are organized to reveal various impacts and challenges associated with the management of flooding, including response and recovery. The chapter contributions bring together the different impacts of flooding and propose various mitigation approaches. They describe procedures for managing flooding and reducing the impacts from the perspectives of policy makers, environmental planners and restorers of flood-affected communities. Also, the book considers some of the related aspects including land use, waste management, drainage systems, security challenges, urban planning and development and their contributions to flooding.The book's primary target is experienced researchers and practitioners in flood risk management. It would also serve as a key text for postgraduate students studying related programmes. Inhabitants of flood prone communities in such developing countries will also find the text an important resource for guidance and understanding. This multi-disciplinary book represents a valuable contribution for a wide range of professionals (e.g. in engineering, built environment, health, retail, etc) who are interested in flood control and management and/or faced with flood-related challenges in the course of their work.

佐藤洋一郎他編　インド太平洋研究ハンドブック
Kratiuk, Barbara / Van den Bosch, J. / Jaskolska, A. / Sato, Yoichiro (eds.), Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies. (Indo-Pacific in Context) 364 pp. 2023:1 (Routledge, UK) <689-479>
ISBN 978-1-03-235928-1 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

This handbook explores the significance of the Indo-Pacific in world politics. It shows how the re-emergence of the Indo-Pacific in international relations has fundamentally changed the approach to politics, economics and security.The volume:explores the themes related to trade, politics and security for better understanding of the Indo-Pacific and the repercussions of the region's emergencestudies different security and political issues in the region: military competition, maritime governance, strategic alliances and rivalries, and international conflictsanalyses various socio-economic dimensions of the Indo-Pacific, such as political systems, cultural and religious contexts, and trade and financial systemsexamines the strategies of various states, such as the United States, Japan, India and China, and their approaches towards the Indo-Pacificcovers the role of middle powers and small states in detailInterdisciplinary in approach and with essays from authors from around the world, this volume will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students in the fields of international relations, politics and Asian studies.

Menon, Dilip M. / Zaidi, Nishat (eds.), Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought. 250 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-488>
ISBN 978-1-03-205708-8 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-229297-7 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and Global South studies.

Rajagopalan, Sudha, Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India. (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War) 248 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-489>
ISBN 978-0-367-68657-4 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba. During the Cold War, an important means to perpetuate Soviet ideals of modernisation and anti-imperialist solidarity across the world was the circulation of 'banal' objects, produced in the Soviet Union and purchased, awarded, and gifted for use in homes across the world. Based on oral accounts of Indian and Cuban interlocutors, this book examines the itineraries of Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books, nesting dolls, porcelain, and many other things. Explored this way, the Cold War is a matter of personal, affective, everyday experience. At the same time, by indicating the cohabitation of things in their home from around the world, interlocutors also go on to undercut simple geopolitical binaries that pit Soviet against American techno-politics. Accounts of Soviet objects in India and Cuba reveal a bricolage of preferences that crisscrossed ideological dualities of East vs West, communist vs capitalist, making for an alternative cosmopolitanism that was in equal measure shaped by personal, local, and national histories and experiences. This book will appeal to readers interested in Cold War history, the history of transnational solidarities, and Soviet material culture.

人新世アジアにおける人間と動物の相互作用
Teo, Victor (ed.), Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia. (Routledge Contemporary China Series 244) 304 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <689-490>
ISBN 978-1-03-207921-9 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book examines the theme of human-animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene.Focused on China and its immediate Asian borderlands, this interdisciplinary collection provides a powerful and insightful analysis of the ecological challenges that mankind's traditional activities have created. Through in-depth case studies, each focusing on a particular human-animal dynamic, the book contextualizes and advances the understanding of existing environmental and ecological problems faced by local communities in Asia. In particular, the book hopes to transcend the duality of the nature versus culture debate by locating animal-ecological problems in the behavior of human institutions, beliefs, and practices, which are often affected by prevailing cultural proclivities, political ideologies, economic interests, and scientific agendas. Through interrogation of theoretical concepts of Anthropocene and human-animal binary, the volume highlights the controversial debates that follow their usage as well as their empirical utility understanding human- animal interactions historically, thereby engaging a broader interdisciplinary conversation increasingly links these two fields together.Providing a platform for discussion and dialogue for a wide audience, this book will appeal to students and scholars of environmental history and politics, anthropology, political science and policy studies, China studies, and Asian studies more generally.

中国と中東・北アフリカ必携
Zoubir, Yahia H. (ed.), Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa. 480 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-492>
ISBN 978-0-367-49983-9 hard ¥55,555.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00 *

Focusing on China's relations with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this Companion provides essential analysis of a complex region which threatens to become the battleground for rival powers in the future.The Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa brings together China scholars from around the world, including from China, the MENA region, the United States, Asia, and Europe. The contributors, experts in their respective areas--which range from politics, military and nuclear power to economics, energy, and tourism--use different methodologies to understand China's policies in the MENA. Topics analyzed include Chinese investment in infrastructure, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Belt and Road Initiative. Divided into three Parts, the book addresses China's multidimensional presence in the MENA and its impact on the region while also explicating the MENA's relations with its traditional Western allies. Bilateral relations and people-to-people interactions are also explored and provide in-depth context to the areas of cooperation that are part of China's dealings with its partners in the region.Combining contemporary analysis with accessible prose, the book will be of interest to students, scholars, and policy-makers active in international relations, security studies, and economics, as well to general audiences interested in the MENA region.

東アジアにおけるビール－政治経済
Chambers, Paul / Nuangjamnong, Nithi (eds.), Beer in East Asia: A Political Economy. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 179) 264 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <689-135>
ISBN 978-1-03-225327-5 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Chambers, Nuangjamnong, and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for understanding the region's political economy.Asia is both the world's largest beer-consuming and beer-producing region, and the fastest growing beer market. Per-capita consumption is lower than Europe, but catching up fast. Beer consumption is also widely understood to correlate closely with economic growth and urbanization, much more so than other alcoholic beverages like spirits. With ten country case studies from both Northeast and Southeast Asia, the contributors to this volume look at the history of beer production and consumption across East Asia through a lens of historical institutionalism and political economy. In doing so they not only examine the development of the beer industry in the region but also what it tells us about the countries themselves. They ask questions such as: To what extent have state versus societal actors influenced the path of beer production? How has beer production changed? Was there a critical juncture at which beer production abruptly changed course?A valuable resource for students and scholars of modern East Asian History, and particularly those with a focus on colonial history, industrial history, and state-society relations.

アジアの議会ハンドブック
Yap, Po Jen / Abeyratne, Rehan (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments. (Routledge International Handbooks) 408 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-218>
ISBN 978-0-367-62423-1 hard ¥55,555.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00 *

This handbook showcases the rich varieties of legislatures that exist in Asia and explains how political power is constituted in 17 jurisdictions in East, Southeast and South Asia.Legislatures in Asia come in all stripes. Liberal democracies co-exist cheek by jowl with autocracies; semi-democratic and competitive authoritarian systems abound. While all legislatures exist to make law and confer legitimacy on the political leadership, how representative they are of the people they govern differs dramatically across the continent, such that it is impossible to identify a common Asian prototype. Divided into thematic and country-by-country sections, this handbook is a one-stop reference that surveys the range of political systems operating in Asia. Each jurisdiction chapter examines the structure and composition of its legislature, the powers of the legislature, the legislative process, thereby providing a clear picture of how each legislature operates both in theory and in practice. The book also thematically analyses the following political systems operating in Asia: communist regimes, liberal democracies, dominant party democracies, turbulent democracies, presidential democracies, military regimes and protean authoritarian rule.This handbook is a vital and comprehensive resource for scholars of constitutional law and politics in Asia.