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

グローバル・ガバナンスとポリティカル・サウス－BRICS内外の連続性と変化
Rewizorski, Marek / Cooper, Andrew F. (eds.), Global Governance and The Political South: Continuity and Change In and Beyond the BRICS. (Global Governance) 238 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-763>
ISBN 978-1-032-81940-2 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book gives a new compelling meaning to the metaphor of 'Global South' against the background of the global political challenge to international order, driven not only through the BRICS grouping, but also by the activities of middle powers striving to alter the political status quo. Expert contributors highlight the interplay between politics, economy, and security, offering insights into how the Global South perceives and responds to pivotal events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2008 Financial Crisis. They uncover how non-Western countries interpret and react to these turning points, and explore a diverse array of interests, values, and political behaviours often misunderstood in the West. The volume also examines whether initiatives from the Global South can reshape global governance institutions, influence the existing structures, and provide a historical and philosophical context to understand the continuities and changes in global governance. Ideal for scholars and students, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the rise and influence of the Global South, BRICS, global governance, and the evolving international system.

グローバル・サウスにおける市民社会と現地のオーナーシップ－紛争と軍国主義への対応
Natil, Ibrahim (ed.), Civil Society and Local Ownership in the Global South: Responses to Conflict and Militarism. (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies) 152 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <740-783>
ISBN 978-1-032-93241-5 hard ¥14,746.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book assesses local civil society responses to conflict, militarism, climate change, and disease in the global south.Grounded in empirical analyses of civil society developments in Sub-Saharan African countries, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine, and Syria, the book demonstrates that that civil society organisations in unstable circumstances and divided societies have room and power to help and influence their societies and to become engaged in supporting active participation in society to help communities to endure uncertainty. The book considers the ways in which crises of conflict, war, climate change, and disease have challenged civil society organisations in their scope of work and operations. It also demonstrates the benefits of local ownership and grassroots initiatives in helping to empower local people by contributing to decision-making processes in peacebuilding and post-conflict consensus-building.This book will be an important read for researchers looking for a new approach to civil society in a global south context, by focusing on local ownership and the different perspectives for each country, in terms of leadership culture and development in practice.

歴史を横断するサバルタン・ハンドブック
Dube, Saurabh / Banerjee, Ishita (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History. 442 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-794>
ISBN 978-1-032-57883-5 hard ¥64,009.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences. This volume explores what it means to set to work today studies of subaltern subjects in our rapidly mutating social worlds. This handbook spans diverse historical, ethnographic, and geopolitical spaces, drawing in the Antipodes and the Americas, Diasporas and Oceanic worlds, Africa and the Middle East, apart from Europe and many South Asias - overlapping arenas in which the "subaltern" continues to find distinct yet substantive articulations. It also seeks to meaningfully juxtapose practices and processes of gender and race; indigeneity and indenture; age and sexuality; slavery and apartheid; the Adivasi and the Dalit; settler-colonialisms and nations; nature and environment; caste and tribe; diaspora and blackness; capital and property; science and technology; media and cinema; the body and dance; heteronormativity and queerness; state and governance; politics and justice. In these ways, the study un-frames disciplinary boundaries and maps emergent terrains, exactly articulating pressing subjects and rethinking distinct subalternities. This book is aimed at researchers, scholars, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the critical human sciences, especially history, anthropology, social theory and cultural, gender, and literary studies.

Kamlongera, Mtisunge Isabel (ed.), Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis: A View from the Margins. (Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies) 178 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-795>
ISBN 978-1-032-76481-8 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book showcases Global South theorizations and understandings of gender.By taking voices from the margins and putting them center stage, the book provides an important example of decoloniality in action, challenging a field that continues to be rooted in Western Feminist epistemology. The book first analyzes the history and development of gender discourse, before going on to investigate non-Western philosophy and frameworks around gender. Each chapter presents instances of decoloniality in action, with possible retheorizations and rationalizations of how to be decolonial within gender discourse and praxis. The book concludes by considering what the future implications of a truly decolonial gender discourse and praxis would be.Offering detailed empirical accounts of decoloniality in action, this book will be a useful guide for researchers of gender and post-colonial studies.

van Eerd, Maartje / Banerjee, Banashree (eds.), Urban River Restoration and Waterfront Development in Asian Cities: The Social Question. 230 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-800>
ISBN 978-1-032-29151-2 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-99313-3 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The book looks at recent initiatives for river restoration and riverfront intended to contribute to making Asian cities clean, resilient and investment worthy. It uses an interdisciplinary perspective to assert that insufficient consideration of social issues in the planning and management of urban riverscapes leads to social exclusion. Utilising diverse entry points and theoretical orientations, every chapter of the volume contributes to the exploration of the way urban river restoration is entwined with questions around urban citizenship, violation of international housing rights, poverty and vulnerability, livelihoods, and the use of common property resources. It explores the social aspects of well-known cases and examples of river restoration projects from Asian megacities such as Lahore, Dhaka, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangkok, Manila, and secondary cities in India. While touching on the technical, ecological, and recreational aspects of urban river restoration and riverfront development, the book focuses upon social issues related to displacement, contestations around land and water, the right to adequate housing and the interconnected rights to livelihoods, health, and food security.Enriched with empirical evidence and theoretical underpinnings, this book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers of urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban ecology, sociology, community development, and policy and governance. It will also provide valuable case material for practitioners in those disciplines.

イギリス帝国の奴隷制と現代世界におけるその遺産
Cushion, Steve, Slavery in the British Empire and Its Legacy in the Modern World. 240 pp. 2025:6 (Monthly Review, US) <740-738>
ISBN 978-1-68590-101-1 hard ¥19,482.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-68590-100-4 paper ¥6,129.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Di Giovanni, Adrian / Bercovich, Luciana (eds.), Legal Empowerment in Informal Settlements: Grassroots Experiences in the Global South. 276 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-421>
ISBN 978-1-032-88637-4 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-88628-2 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book investigates grassroots, community-led justice strategies - known as legal empowerment - being used to promote the human rights of people living in informal settlements in the Global South.Residents of informal settlements, also known as slums or favelas, encounter a complex array of human rights violations; from systemic discrimination by public officials, to threats to physical security from forced evictions, or arbitrary arrests, to a lack of access to basic services such as housing, water, sanitation, and education. This book shows how grassroots justice organizations around the world are working with residents to defend their rights and secure more dignified living conditions. Drawing on original empirical research across 10 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book demonstrates how legal empowerment can put residents at the centre of holistic approaches to urban development and confront exclusionary and undemocratic systems of governance. The book encompasses practical recommendations and strategies such as rights-based approaches to informality, participation, community mobilization and litigation.Bridging the gaps between the law on the books and the harsh realities of informality on the ground, this book will be an important read for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, working in realms of social and economic rights, access to justice and urban poverty and development.

Matthews, Sally / Castellsague, Alba (eds.), Post-Development from the Global South: Radical Alternatives or Ambivalent Engagements? (Rethinking Development) 260 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-209>
ISBN 978-1-032-76298-2 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76296-8 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?This book investigates how post-development alternatives are being understood and negotiated on the ground in the Global South. Indigenous concepts and practices attributed to people in the Global South are seen by post-development thinkers as offering transformative alternatives to dominant development models of progress and economic growth. For example, buen vivir from particular regions of South America points to a 'culture of life' and ubuntu in Southern Africa emphasises human connectedness and mutuality. Such terms are associated with social and environmental sustainability, and a greater connection to Southern epistemologies. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book takes us directly to Global South communities from around the world, to consider the complex ways in which they negotiate the ideas and practices associated with (post)development, and their views on the supposed indigenous alternatives. The book encourages a contextual approach that embraces the tensions and contradictions that exist within different communities.Taking the reader from abstract post-development theory right into the heart of communities directly impacted by development, this book will be an important guide for students, researchers and practitioners looking for better ways to address the desires and aspirations of marginalised communities in the Global South.

Mochizuki, Mia M. / Zupanov, Ines G. (eds.), Palimpsests of Religious Encounter in Asia, 1500-1800. (Intersections 97) 540 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-150>
ISBN 978-90-04-52274-9 hard ¥35,464.- (税込) EUR 155.00

During the "thick globalism" of the early modern world, evidence of religious contact, between conflict and commerce, has been overlooked in national narratives. In Palimpsests of Religious Encounter in Asia, 1500-1800, a cross-disciplinary group of international experts delve into on-site artefacts and archives to consider the geographical imagination, the transfer of knowledge, the politics of interreligious dialogue, the practice of reception, and the cyclical flow of meaning across transcultural things. Illustrations of objects rarely available to the public demonstrate how religious belief can provide a shared methodological platform for the global turn of art history. Contributors: Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Fayaz A. Dar, Antonio De Caro, Michiko Fukaya, Kayo Hirakawa, Rene B. Javellana, S.J., Emy Merin Joy, Zubair Khalid, Edith Llamas Camacho, Sidh Losa Mendiratta, Mia M. Mochizuki, D. Max Moerman, Raphaele Preisinger, Dhruv Raina, Timon Screech, Nicolas Standaert, Guillermo Wilde, Ines G. Zupanov.