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

メディア、政治、環境－欧州とアジアの経験の分析
Briesen, Detlef / Das, Sarada Prasanna (eds.), Media, Politics and Environment: Analyzing Experiences from Europe and Asia. (Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication) 286 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <702-892>
ISBN 978-3-031-31251-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Environmental protection has not equally established itself as a permanent fixture in the political systems of all countries: to date, governments and entire societies have responded to environmental challenges in a variety of ways, and concrete environmental policy is still a highly national matter. Moreover, the perception of environmental problems varies considerably on a global scale. The reasons normally cited for these differences largely stem from the environmental policy debates themselves, e.g. poverty, ignorance, capital interests, etc. In contrast, this book shows that concrete environmental policy emerges from a complex interplay of mass media and political conflicts: first, the mass media provide the framework for national environmental policy through agenda-setting, framing and scandalization; second, the mass media thereby change values in the political and social discourse, e.g. by altering the perception of global commons and expanding the possibilities of interest articulation; and third, this can lead to political decision-making processes in which legal and other measures for environmental protection are enforced. The book systematically compares industrialized countries such as Germany and Japan with several rapidly emerging countries in South and Southeast Asia.

Biekart, Kees / Kontinen, Tiina / Millstein, M. (eds.), Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces. (EADI Global Development Series) 291 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-904>
ISBN 978-3-031-23304-3 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. This unique book also contributes to a better understanding of the conceptualizations and practices of civil society. It is of keen interest to academic scholars, students, civil society practitioners, and policy makers in the field of international development research and civil society action.

B.G.ピーターズ他編　アジアの官僚制における政治的パトロネジ
Peters, B. Guy / Knox, Colin / Kim, Byeong Seob (eds.), Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies. 350 pp. 2023:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-908>
ISBN 978-1-00-920806-2 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

Political patronage is defined as political actors appointing individuals at their discretion to key positions in the public sector. The book examines this practice in the bureaucracies of 11 Asian countries through the use of a typological framework of patronage types. The framework is based on two key criteria: basis of trust and the major role of political appointees. Several countries with well-developed civil service systems showed minimal levels of patronage (Japan, Singapore and South Korea). Two countries with a weak civil service showed very high levels of patronage appointments (Bangladesh and India). Sandwiched between those extremes are countries with formal civil service systems that are heavily influenced by political parties and by social ties to society (Vietnam, Kazakhstan, and China). The book concludes that not all patronage is the same and what is important is the tasks being performed by appointees and the nature of the trust relationship.

Cook, Constance A., Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts. (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 75 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-94>
ISBN 978-1-108-97220-8 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early imperial Qin and Han eras, and then a brief discussion covering the period through the 11th-c. CE. The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illness categories, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies evident in the newly discovered material and reveals a side of medical practice not reflected in the canons. It is both traditions of healing, the canons and the currents of local practice revealed by these texts, that influenced the development of East Asian medicine more broadly. The local practices show there was no real evolution from magical to non-magical medicine. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Coe, Brooke / Nash, Kathryn, Regionalized Governance in the Global South. (Elements in International Relations) 75 pp. 2023:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-950>
ISBN 978-1-00-937662-4 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element addresses questions of division of labor and concentration of authority among intergovernmental organizations by examining multilevel governance in the Global South. It focuses on the policy domains of peace and security and human rights in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its central finding is that the extent of governance regionalization varies across regions and issue areas. In the domain of peace and security, governance is most regionalized in Africa. In the domain of human rights protection, governance is most regionalized in the LAC region. Given the phenomenon of regional specialization, the Element makes the case for the greater explanatory power of regional drivers of regional institutional development. This Element is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Plagemann, Johannes / Maihack, Henrik, Wir sind nicht alle: Der globale Sueden und die Ignoranz des Westens. (C. H. Beck Paperback 6534) 224 S. 2023:9 (Beck, GW) <702-963>
ISBN 978-3-406-80725-1 paper ¥4,237.- (税込) EUR 18.00 *

Der Westen ist nicht mehr der Nabel der Welt. Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine hat auch unseren Blick auf den globalen Sueden veraendert. Es herrscht Verwunderung, dass die westliche Sanktionspolitik gegen Russland in Staaten wie Indien oder Suedafrika nicht geteilt wird. Im Rahmen der sich abzeichnenden neuen Blockkonfrontation zwischen dem Westen und China ist dem globalen Sueden zugleich eine neue strategische Bedeutung zugefallen. Doch wer dort Unterstuetzung sucht, muss dessen Motive und Interessen verstehen. Laengst ist im globalen Sueden Multipolaritaet, also eine Ordnung, in der keineswegs nur die USA und Europa, sondern auch China, Indien, Suedafrika oder Brasilien und mancherorts sogar Russland eine wichtige Rolle spielen, ein positives Zukunftsszenario. Weil sie fuer viele Laender Autonomie verspricht, indem sie Entscheidungsspielraeume eroeffnet, wo vorher keine waren. Im globalen Sueden wird die internationale Politik daher ganz anders gesehen als im Westen, wo man den Abschied von der alten Machtordnung und der eigenen Dominanz als ?unuebersichtlich“ und damit potenziell bedrohlich wahrnimmt. Den Blick des globalen Suedens auf die internationale Politik besser zu verstehen, lohnt sich: Denn dort, wo wir bislang vor allem Risiken sehen, warten eigentlich Chancen.

太平洋アジアの再中心化
Womack, Brantly, Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order. 300 pp. 2023:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-967>
ISBN 978-1-00-939381-2 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-939383-6 paper ¥7,404.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

The Pacific Rim of Asia - Pacific Asia - is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China's global outlook is shaped by its regional experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central producer and market in a globalized region. Developments since 2008 have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but China's presence, population, and production guarantee it a key role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between hegemons, the US and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered, interconnected global matrix that neither can control. Brantly Womack argues that Pacific Asia is now the key venue for working out a new world order.

発展途上世界におけるガバナンス－経済開発へのトランスナショナルな洞察
Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami / Ben Mim, Sami (eds.), Governance in the Developing World: Transnational Insights on Economic Development. 235 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <702-289>
ISBN 978-981-9924-92-9 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally. Governance has been pointed out as one of the major weaknesses of developing economies and may largely be attributed to weak governance practices at both the macro- and micro-level. This book highlights the channels through which governance may act on various economic sectors and different key economic variables. In doing so, it enables policymakers to identify and implement policies and procedures to promote good governance. This book provides a transnational perspective on good governance in considering developing countries in Asia, Africa and beyond, presenting respective case studies in single country settings, enabling a comparative perspective between and across all chapters. Covering topics that include the intersection between governance and gender, inequality, poverty, education and health, the book provides diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on important issues facing policymakers, investors and other stakeholders and is relevant to graduate students and researchers interest in policy issues in the developing world.

青木秀男、石岡丈昇編　東アジアにおける底辺労働者
Aoki, Hideo / Ishioka, Tomonori (eds.), The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 262) 316 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-293>
ISBN 978-90-04-67822-4 hard ¥35,545.- (税込) EUR 151.00 *

The protagonist of The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization is a bottom worker. Bottom workers are workers in the North and the South, who have suffered from the downward pressure of hierarchy under neoliberal globalization and have been re-stratified among themselves, from employed irregularly to self-employed and the working homeless. The existing division has become increasingly more fluid as the disparities in working conditions and wages are compressed downward. The book examines workers' entrapment at the bottom, getting off the bottom, and intersecting each other by analyzing how they work, reside in, and build lifeworlds in cities and suburbs of four East Asian countries. In this way, it draws a dynamic picture of the contemporary working class. Contributors are: Tatsuto Asakawa, Ilju Kim, Jah-Hon Koo, Ashita Matsumiya, Yuko Matsusono, Shinji Sakamoto, Keishiro Tsutsumi, Keiko Yamaguchi, and Tsubasa Yuki.

Kwan, Simon Shui-Man / Chow, Wai-Yin (eds.), Asian Spiritualities and Social Transformation. 274 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <702-186>
ISBN 978-981-9926-40-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book offers a cross-cultural and inter-religious understanding of the ways social transformation in Asia is related to Asian spiritualities. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from different cultures and fields of study, it collates cutting-edge research and applies it to the role of Asian spiritualities in social transformation. Spirituality has garnered increasing attention in recent years across diverse fields of research and practice, from psychology and healthcare, to anthropology, education, sociology, political sciences, social work, feminist studies, cultural studies, religious studies, theology, philosophy, and so on. However, the term means different things within these different disciplines. Spirituality can be understood to be private and personal, but also public and societal, not only as a force that brings about change but also one that helps maintain the status quo - not only as a core element in religion but also as something disconnected from it. This book poses that to gain a firm grasp of spirituality, one needs to traverse these different terrains. Disbarring the orientalist understanding of spirituality that is often found embedded in stereotypes of the East as mystical, esoteric, and spiritual, in contrast to the West as scientific and rational, this book deconstructs this binarism to enable a sophisticated understanding of the diversity within Eastern and Western spiritualities. It presents "Asian spirituality" as a misnomer, focusing on the plurality of spiritualties and the region's multifaceted religiosity, and it also excavates interfaith terrains. It is of interest to social scientists, theologians and religious scholars, and students and researchers interested in Asian spiritualties and social movements

Boyle, Edward / Ivings, Steven (eds.), Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific. (East and West 16) 410 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-1019>
ISBN 978-90-04-51297-9 hard ¥39,782.- (税込) EUR 169.00

Contests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.

小林広治他編　アジアにおけるスポーツのメガイベント
Kobayashi, Koji / Horne, John / Cho, Younghan et al. (eds.), Sports Mega-Events in Asia. (Palgrave Series of Sport in Asia) 280 pp. 2023:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <702-1023>
ISBN 978-981-9900-10-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is the first comprehensive collection focusing on the hosting of sports mega-events within Asia and their impact on the politics, economics, and culture that shape, and are shaped by, the local idiosyncrasies of host cities and countries across this most culturally diverse continent. From the Olympic Games and single sport World Cups, to the Asian Games and their sub-regional variations, an increasing number of Asian countries have rapidly developed their capacity to host and mobilize large-scale sports events as a cornerstone of their economic growth, national identity formation, and international prestige. This book sets out to fill a gap in the literature and will be of particular relevance to those who are interested in globalization, sports studies, political economy, cultural studies, event management and policy, sociology, media studies, and Asian studies

Novelli, Mario / Pherali, Tejendra / Kutan, Birgul et al., Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South. 256 pp. 2024:1 (Pluto Pr., UK) <702-1025>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4892-6 paper ¥5,409.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

'Outstanding ... This book is a must-read for scholars and activists interested in the impact of grassroots knowledge-making on individuals, institutions and society' Rebecca Tarlau, author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land 'In social movements, people [learn how to] re-imagine their worlds. This powerful and inspiring book shows that movement education is not a luxury but a central part of effective struggle' Laurence Cox, author of Why Social Movements Matter Laboratories of Learning proves, through exploring inspiring social movements around the world, that the education and knowledge-making happening inside these movements is crucial for the future of social justice for all. It asks three simple but profound questions: How do movements learn and make knowledge? What kinds of knowledge do movements make? And what is its effect on individual activists, movements and even whole societies? Written in collaboration with leading activists from different movements in Turkey, Colombia, Nepal and South Africa, each case shows that these activists in the Global South can offer exciting insights into the myriad of ways that movements learn and produce knowledge as they struggle for a better world. Designed to inspire and innovate, Laboratories of Learning is an opportunity for activists to learn new, ground-breaking ideas, born out of moments working at the intersection of theory and practice, pushing the boundaries of new thinking and the limits of the possible.

Procter, James, Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic. (Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series) 288 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <702-1028>
ISBN 978-0-19-889417-9 hard ¥22,222.- (税込) GB￡ 78.00 *

Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals became producers, editors, and freelancers at the corporation, including Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Bennett, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Amos Tutuola, V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon, Cyprian Ekwensi, Stuart Hall, and C.L.R. James. Operating at the interface of a range of literary and broadcast genres, this loose network of African Caribbean writers and thinkers prompt a reassessment of the aesthetic, formal, and political fallout of decolonization between the outbreak of World War II and the first airings of post-colonial independence. Scripting Empire works comparatively across dozens of different programmes spanning the General Overseas Service, Home Service, Light Programme, and Third Programme. Drawing upon a transnational archive of materials including scripts, correspondence, periodicals, visual records, and sound recordings, it seeks to re-position the cultural contribution of West Indians and West Africans within a more pervasive and porous account of radio transmission, the legacy of which extends well beyond broadcasting.