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

Bracken, Gregory / Rabe, Paul / Azlan, Nurul Azreen (eds.), Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self (Volume III). (Asian Cities) 302 pp. 2024:11 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-853>
ISBN 978-90-485-6207-7 hard ¥33,333.- (税込) GB￡ 117.00

This book investigates some of the biggest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. Research conducted in Asia and the West highlights the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government responses to Covid-19 have had on artistic freedoms and citizen participation. Digitisation is shown to be a double-edged sword, with ill effects on citizenship being countered by positive ones from grass-roots activities. The biggest challenge facing the world today is climate change. Issues of sustainability can also be a double-edged sword depending on how they are addressed by governments and those they govern. What unites all of the papers in this book is their people-centred approach, with Michel Foucault's concept of the 'Care of the Self' as a connecting theme uniting their different research endeavours.

河崎信樹、坂出健他編　米国のヘゲモニー、在外米軍、負担の分担－冷戦中・後の西欧と東アジア
Kawasaki, Nobuki / Sakade, Takeshi / Zimmermann, H. (eds.), US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing: West Europe and East Asia during and after the Cold War. (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) 208 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-914>
ISBN 978-1-03-256703-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the US and its allies after the Second World War, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia. Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume identify the characteristics and historical transformations in the burden sharing relationships between the US and its allies. In addition to diplomatic and security concerns, they also look at the economic and financial dimensions of burden sharing and how all these elements are intertwined. They also address the different dynamics of burden sharing between the US and Western Europe - notably Germany and the UK - on the one hand, and between the US and East Asia - particularly Japan and Korea - on the other. In particular, they argue that while Western European countries provided most of the economic and political support for American policies until the 1960s, the economic support from East Asian countries became much more important from the 1970s onwards. A valuable contribution to the literature on burden sharing and strategic alliance for scholars of international relations and the diplomatic history of the Cold War.

Young, Oran / Kim, Jong-Deog (eds.), North Pacific Perspectives on the Arctic: Looking Far North in Turbulent Times. 192 pp. 2024:12 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-923>
ISBN 978-1-03-534494-9 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This timely book supplements well-established Euro-Atlantic perspectives on the Arctic by offering fresh insights into emerging issues and opportunities in the region through the application of a North Pacific lens. The book brings together an array of perspectives, including voices from China, Russia, and the United States along with the voices of Indigenous peoples and other Arctic residents. The result is a multidimensional assessment of the circumstances of the Arctic in increasingly turbulent times and an examination of opportunities for peaceful competition even under conditions of increased tension.To think constructively about the treatment of Arctic issues during the 2020s and beyond, the authors argue that we must pay increased attention to the coupling of the Arctic with a range of processes playing out on a global scale. With chapters covering key topics such as the geopolitical situation, economic development, environmental challenges, science-governance engagement and community wellbeing, this book sets out a distinctive perspective on the changing role of the Arctic in the "new" global order. The book is a valuable resource for environmental specialists, those concerned with the role of regions in global affairs, academics and students looking for an alternative Arctic narrative. Offering new insights on global institutionalized cooperation, this book will also interest policymakers and practitioners specializing in environmental politics and international relations.

東シナ海・南シナ海における海洋ガバナンス及び紛争
Schultheiss, Christian, Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power. (Politics and International Relations in Asia) 382 pp. 2024:8 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-965>
ISBN 978-94-6372-899-7 hard ¥36,467.- (税込) GB￡ 128.00

This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries about the East and South China Sea disputes. Tapping into formerly classified and newly available primary sources, the book meticulously tracks these negotiations and their sudden U-turns. It is a story about the promises and perils of cooperation - as much about pragmatic, gradual and surprisingly resilient approaches to conflict resolution and ocean governance as it is about the expansion of states' bargaining power through institutions. The book hinges on the question of when and why disputing parties reach agreement on joint oil and gas development, fisheries and codes of conduct, and when and why negotiations end in impasse. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed study of decades-long dispute settlement efforts in a central region of the Indo-Pacific where the expansion of China challenges the law of the sea and regional security.

Bae, Christopher J., The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia. 277 pp. 2024:9 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-971>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9765-9 paper ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00

In Asia, research in human evolution has long been considered to have lagged far behind what was going on in places like Africa and Europe. Oftentimes this is due to the limited dissemination of research findings rather than the lack of actual research. The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia is an attempt to rectify this discrepancy by providing rich evidence rooted in deep research traditions from East and Southeast Asia. It covers fossils from the earliest arrival of hominins more than two million years ago to the end of the last Ice Age 15,000 years ago. During this wide span of time, many exciting and important events happened in eastern Asia. The earliest hominins arrived in the region; various hominin species evolved and interacted with one another, including Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and a few more in between. While fossils can reveal what these hominins may have looked like, the rich Paleolithic archaeological record yields clues to their behavior. Handaxes have been found in eastern Asia where they were previously believed to have been absent. Watercraft was used by foragers as early as 40,000 years ago to reach regions like the Japanese archipelago, showing that deep-sea voyaging has a long and deep history. In Indonesia, captivating cave art older than the famous Lascaux paintings from France have been reported. The story continues with a tremendous amount of new and important discoveries from the region being reported almost daily. Providing comprehensive coverage of paleoanthropological research in eastern Asia-from the groundbreaking finds in a cave near Beijing in the early twentieth century to the discovery and identification of new human species during the twenty-first century-this book will interest anyone wishing to learn about the human evolutionary record.

Chen, Tina / Eubanks, Charlotte et al., Global Asias: Tactics & Theories. (Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis) 277 pp. 2024:12 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-974>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9406-1 hard ¥16,170.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge formation that currently make legible and organize the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas. Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geography: These keywords highlight potential overlaps and points of disagreement between area studies, ethnic studies, and diaspora studies. Through an inventive approach and structure, the book exemplifies how the collaborative ethos of Global Asias praxis can catalyze new methods of scholarship and pedagogy-and create innovative models of academic knowledge-production. Editors offer a substantive overview of the emergent multidisciplinary field of Global Asias followed by a set of collaboratively authored research forums and pedagogical materials by a varied group of scholars working across ranks, disciplines, fields, geographies, and languages. Global Asias: Tactics & Theories will be an indispensable guide for anyone interested in learning more about this emerging field. It is crafted to provide resources for a wide range of readers: researchers, teachers, students, and administrators. The diversity and originality of the materials and approaches reflect a broad understanding of scholarly work that resists mastery by building structures of intellectual experimentation that embrace disagreement and differences. Readers will discover provocative conversations that redefine what it means to work in, at, for, and around Global Asias-not as a settled object of knowledge but a dynamic praxis of engagement.

グローバル・サウスにおける社会正義ハンドブック
Deb, Nikhil / Nair, Manjusha / Muschert, Glenn W. (eds.), Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South. 576 pp. 2025:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-975>
ISBN 978-1-80392-114-3 hard ¥68,376.- (税込) GB￡ 240.00

This timely Handbook explores social justice in the Global South in an era of planetary crisis and shifting global dynamics. Presenting the Global South as a space of belonging and resistance to the hegemony of global capitalism, it identifies how to reimagine transformative futures for a just world.Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, expert contributors examine the many dimensions of justice. They investigate the disparate impacts of injustices on marginalized groups across the Global South, highlighting the major shortcomings of conventional development models based around global mass consumption. The Handbook also covers the role of ecological considerations, localized struggles, resistance movements and the broader geopolitical landscape in shaping narratives of social justice. Drawing on inclusionary practices to create a balanced relationship in global knowledge production, it gives voice to scholars based in the Global South as well as those who have created a third space in the Global North.The Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South is an essential resource for students and scholars of development studies, social justice, and inequality. Policymakers will also find it invaluable for enhancing their understanding of the conditions needed for global justice.

Herzfeld, Michael / Padawangi, Rita (eds.), Resilience as Heritage in Asia. (Asian Heritages) 218 pp. 2024:10 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-977>
ISBN 978-94-6372-856-0 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

This volume analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand). Persistent resistance to communal erasure taking place through repressive policies and commercialized, multinational urban development insensitive to local communities and values often presents an uphill battle. Some of these collective efforts to survive through everyday actions, encounters, and constant struggles have successful outcomes, while others are ephemeral at best. The authors argue that persisting vernacular spaces located between resistance and co-optation are themselves a form of local cultural heritage in the rapidly urbanizing region. Recognizing these nonconformist forms of resilience as heritage acknowledges the creativity involved in challenging social and political inequalities. Supporting the cultural autonomy of local communities by acknowledging resilience as heritage contributes to social justice in the region.

Hutson, Nathan Mark, The Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration. (Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures) 238 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-978>
ISBN 978-1-66694-430-3 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00

The Silk Road After Ukraine: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration illustrates the long-term implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Eurasian supply chains and Eurasia's development trajectory. Through an in-depth examination of China's original motivations for launching the New Silk Road, contextualized with the potential impacts on other players along the trade corridor, this book assesses how states that were largely left out of the pre-invasion may capitalize on the new opportunities brought about by divestment in supply chains that traverse Russian and Belarusian territory. Rather than focusing exclusively on state actors, Nathan Mark Hutson also illustrates the role of regional and private sector players in creating coalitions for corridor prioritization. Nathan Mark Hutson argues that the Caucasus and Ukraine, both of which had been sidelined by earlier iterations of the New Silk Road, will find themselves in prime position to overcome post-Soviet path dependence and capitalize on its post-invasion development if the requisite investments in freight infrastructure are made. This volume further illustrates why the liberation and restoration of Ukraine's ports, along with a guarantee of freedom of commerce in the Black and Caspian Seas, are essential factors for the successful development of Eurasia as a dynamic trade space.

Imy, Kate / Segura-Garcia, T. / Valdameri, E. et al. (eds.), Bodies beyond Binaries: in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia. (Global Connections: Routes and Roots) 300 pp 2024:10 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <733-979>
ISBN 978-90-8728-455-8 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

Krutak, Lars, Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity. 277 pp. 2024:10 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <733-981>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9570-9 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *

For millennia, tattoos have documented the history of humanity one painful mark at a time. They form a visual language on the skin, expressing an individual's desires and fears as well as cultural values, family ties, and spiritual beliefs on the surfaces of the body. The Indigenous peoples of Asia have created some of the world's oldest and most distinctive tattoos, but their many contributions to body art and practice have been largely overlooked. Tattoo Traditions of Asia is the first single volume dedicated to the anthropological study of an ancient cultural practice and artform that spans many countries and societies, ancestral lands, and contemporary communities across the continent and its islands. This richly illustrated survey combines the author's twenty years of fieldwork, interviewing hundreds of Indigenous tattoo bearers and contemporary tattoo practitioners, with painstaking research conducted in obscure archives throughout the region and elsewhere to break new ground on one of the least-understood mediums of Indigenous Asian expressive culture-a vital tradition to be celebrated, an inspirational story told in skin and ink.

Lau, Dorothy, Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. (Asian Visual Cultures) 160 pp. 2024:7 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-982>
ISBN 978-94-6372-009-0 hard ¥27,350.- (税込) GB￡ 96.00

Recent years have witnessed the increasing visibility of Asian celebrities in activism, advocacy, diplomacy, philanthropy, and ambassadorship but this phenomenon is under-explored. This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries and mobilisations of Asian celebrities-turned-activists or philanthropists, alongside an array of significations and tensions involved. The analysis anchors on a roster of high-profile Asian icons including Bollywood star Aamir Khan, K-pop sensation BTS, Cantopop singer Denise Ho, and Chinese live-streamer Weiya, who exhibit universal morals while underscoring local or regional affiliations as propelled by expansive media networks. Adopting cosmopolitics as the methodological frame, this volume suggests "muliversal consciousness," a staple to code the star-powered goodwill in times of disjuncture and rupture. To its critical ends, this book attempts to disrupt the Eurocentric tendency in the discursive construction of celebrity-cause dynamics, disentangling the complexities of Asian power, global citizenship, and techno-capitalist logics.

Onodera, Henri / Kaskinen, Martta / Ranta, Eija (eds.), Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Emergent Forms of Activism in an Era of Disillusionment. (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology) 248 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <733-984>
ISBN 978-1-03-245831-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in times of multiple crises. At the intersection of hope and disillusionment, the diverse and thought-provoking chapters investigate emerging forms of activism in the Global South - including youth activisms, anti-racism struggles, feminist initiatives, online dissent, and Indigenous movements.In the 2020s, many parts of the world are witnessing contradictory processes of popular claims to rights, livelihoods, and social justice, and subsequent forms of populist authoritarianism and the securitization of civil society. Previously hopeful calls for dignity, democracy, and social justice - through protesting, strikes, civil society campaigns, legal reforms, and elections, for example - have been met with disdain and civic disengagement. This book investigates the re-imagination and pursuit of citizen activism in such times of popular disillusionment. It explores citizenship utopias as social imaginaries that are enacted and that articulate an ideal social order or democratic polity with ideal forms of experiencing citizenship. Its chapters interrogate conventional approaches to citizenship by introducing a nuanced and empirically grounded exploration of the complex ways in which people experience, negotiate, and engage in the societal changes that they aspire towards. The examination of citizenship utopias outlines contemporary signals for transformative futures and their possibilities.The book undertakes a fresh effort at contributing to the shifting terrain of critical development studies, political anthropology, political sociology, and decolonising scholarship by engaging in discussions about citizenship, activism, disillusionment, and future societal alternatives in times of multiple global challenges.

グローバル・サウスにおける農村と都市のつながりハンドブック
Tacoli, Cecilia / Agergaard, Jytte et al. (eds.), Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South. 400 pp. 2025:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-986>
ISBN 978-1-80220-770-5 hard ¥47,008.- (税込) GB￡ 165.00

This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus on how rural-urban linkages are being shaped by the intersection of the local and the global, this Handbook illustrates how and where locally specific geographic, socio-economic and political contexts interact with global dynamics.Focussing on how planning for socially and environmentally just urban transitions requires a better understanding of changing rural livelihoods, the Handbook explores: what drives migration and mobility; how emerging small towns and peri-urban areas develop, and how demand for food and natural resources evolves with urbanization. With chapters written by a diverse array of researchers, as well as practitioners in the field, this Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives on the topic.The Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South will be of particular interest to academics specializing in human geography, development economics, development studies and sociology. Development practitioners will also benefit from a better understanding of how different contexts shape diverse trajectories.

Varriale, Gennaro, News from the Epicentre: The Flow of Information about Earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy (XVI-XVII Centuries). (Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History 7) 250 S. 2024:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-987>
ISBN 978-3-11-145260-9 hard ¥23,527.- (税込) EUR 99.95

For decades historians argued for the downfall of communication, when early modern societies were hit by a natural disaster. After all, earthquakes caused the destruction of infrastructure, which hindered the spread of news. Instead, the last investigations opened a new point of view about the political communication: every crisis was a catalyst for news. The book widens this reading through a comparative analysis of several earthquakes in the Hispanic Monarchy territories, from Asia to America. However, the examination of communications provided in this volume is not an end in itself but is offered as a basis for reflection and to propose the notion that earthquakes trigger change in social and political dynamics. Earthquake-related crises exposed the underlying contradictions that the court of Madrid needed to address in the most effective way, and, if possible, swiftly. Earthquakes not only destroyed buildings and infrastructure but also social norms. Urgency reduced the distance between interlocutors, to some extent blurring the boundaries of self-censorship. Tremors therefore offer a rare opportunity to observe the political and military crises faced by the Hispanic Monarchy, the global empire of the time.

グローバル・サウスにおけるパンデミックのガバナンス
Gisselquist, Rachel M. / Vaccaro, Andrea (eds.), How States Respond to Crisis: Pandemic Governance Across the Global South. (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics) 224 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-377>
ISBN 978-0-19-890720-6 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. We expect the state to matter in times of crisis, for more 'capable' or 'stronger' states to better provide for and protect their populations. But how is it, precisely, that the quality of the state matters? This volume speaks to this question through comparative study of how diverse states in the Global South responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest global crisis in recent memory. Bringing together insights from quantitative cross-country analysis and detailed country case studies, How States Respond to Crisis analyses the ways in which the quality of the state - in terms of its capacity, authority, and legitimacy - affected pandemic governance and health outcomes. Overall, while the significance of state capacity to deliver public services in effective pandemic response is clear, so too is striking variation among states lacking 'strong' capacity. State legitimacy and authority shed light on this variation, linked in particular to the degree to which governments' responses were evidence-based versus politically driven, and the tenor of citizen compliance with and government enforcement of public health regulations. Seven case study chapters authored by leading scholars of each country provide deep and specific insight into these relationships in Bolivia, Ghana, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Vietnam. Extending beyond a literature on the state based heavily on study of Global North contexts, this volume sheds new light on the nature of the state and its role in crisis response and development.

Leigland, James, The Rise and Fall of Public-Private Partnerships: Finance, Infrastructure and Developing Countries. 310 pp. 2024:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <733-263>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4504-5 hard ¥29,914.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00 *

This book explores how the private sector has long been expected to mobilize finance into much needed infrastructure investment in developing countries. This insightful book is a detailed exploration of the World Bank's initial promotion of public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a solution, and evaluates their insufficient performance over the past decades.James Leigland expertly delves into the past 30 years of PPP advocacy to argue that blind faith in PPPs has led to a failure to deal with the main obstacles to infrastructure investment in the developing world. Investigating the successes and inadequacies of PPPs over the years, Leigland demonstrates that over-reliance on, and unreserved promotion of, these projects will not close the infrastructure gap in developing countries. Leigland goes on to suggest alternatives to PPPs that would allow for cost-effective financing and management of infrastructure, that would help achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.The Rise and Fall of Public-Private Partnerships is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and those who are actively funding campaigns to promote PPPs in developing countries. It will also be of substantial interest to organisations and scholars, questioning and exploring the use of PPPs in this under researched area.

Chakraborty, Shamik / Chatterjee, Amit / Kumar, P. (eds.), Urban Water Ecosystems in Africa and Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation and Restoration. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management) 264 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-305>
ISBN 978-1-03-256535-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book examines urban water ecosystem management and restoration through selected case studies in Asia and Africa. Employing a socioecological approach, this volume presents insights on the inter-linkages between water, humans and environmental conservation in an urban context.Topics include human health risks, population displacement and migration, water pollution, water scarcity, flood management, water infrastructure, afforestation and the effects of climate change. Case studies are drawn from a variety of countries in Africa and Asia, including China, Japan, India, Kenya and Tunisia, which demonstrate a wide range of different challenges, and opportunities. Overall, this book argues that to better manage urban water resources there needs to be a shift from urban water management to urban water ecosystem management. This shift needs to acknowledge the complex bio-physical and socio-political dimensions of water ecosystems.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, ecosystem services, urban studies, environmental conservation and sustainable development.