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

Malin, Stephanie A. / Kallman, Meghan Elizabeth, Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change. (Nature, Society, and Culture) 248 pp. 2022:4 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-906>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2369-3 hard ¥15,727.- (税込) US$ 72.95 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2368-6 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world-from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments-social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer a clear, accessible volume that demonstrates the ways that communities adapt in the face of crises and explains that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to hemp farmers to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociology's own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologies-and must expand beyond them. Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in a time of crises.

Melewski, Bernard C., Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park. (Excelsior Editions) 276 pp. 2022:2 (Excelsior Editions / State U. New York Pr., US) <672-909>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8669-7 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4384-8668-0 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Pauketat, Timothy R., Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. 272 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <672-913>
ISBN 978-0-19-764510-9 hard ¥6,681.- (税込) US$ 30.99 *

A sweeping account of Medieval North America when Indigenous peoples confronted climate change. Few Americans today are aware of one of the most consequential periods in North American history--the Medieval Warm Period of seven to twelve centuries ago (AD 800-1300 CE)--which resulted in the warmest temperatures in the northern hemisphere since the "Roman Warm Period," a half millennium earlier. Reconstructing these climatic events and the cultural transformations they wrought, Timothy Pauketat guides readers down ancient American paths walked by Indigenous people a millennium ago, some trod by Spanish conquistadors just a few centuries later. The book follows the footsteps of priests, pilgrims, traders, and farmers who took great journeys, made remarkable pilgrimages, and migrated long distances to new lands. Along the way, readers will discover a new history of a continent that, like today, was being shaped by climate change--or controlled by ancient gods of wind and water. Through such elemental powers, the history of Medieval America was a physical narrative, a long-term natural and cultural experience in which Native people were entwined long before Christopher Columbus arrived or Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs. Spanning most of the North American continent, Gods of Thunder focuses on remarkable parallels between pre-contact American civilizations separated by a thousand miles or more. Key archaeological sites are featured in every chapter, leading us down an evidentiary trail toward the book's conclusion that a great religious movement swept Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi valley, sometimes because of worsening living conditions and sometimes by improved agricultural yields thanks to global warming a thousand years ago. The author also includes a guide to visiting the archaeological sites discussed in the book.

Sillitoe, Paul (ed.), The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate. 354 pp. 2021:10 (Berghahn, US) <672-917>
ISBN 978-1-80073-231-5 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective.

Vaughn, Sarah E., Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation. 272 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-919>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1548-2 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1810-0 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene in the lives of the world's most vulnerable. Her case study is Guyana in the aftermath of the 2005 catastrophic flooding that ravaged the country's Atlantic coastal plain. The country's ensuing engineering projects reveal the contingencies of climate adaptation and the capacity of flooding to shape Guyanese expectations about racial (in)equality. Analyzing the coproduction of race and vulnerability, Vaughn details why climate adaptation has implications for how we understand the past and the continued human settlement of a place. Such understandings become particularly apparent not only through experts' and ordinary citizens' disputes over resources but in their attention to the ethical practice of technoscience over time. Approaching climate adaptation this way, Vaughn exposes the generative openings as well as gaps in racial thinking for theorizing climate action, environmental justice, and, more broadly, future life on a warming planet. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Sawyer, Suzana, The Small Matter of Suing Chevron. 432 pp. 2022:6 (Duke U. Pr., US) * paper 2022:7 <672-882>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1533-8 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1795-0 paper ¥6,672.- (税込) US$ 30.95 *

In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world's largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron. Within years, a US federal court and an international tribunal determined that the Ecuadorian judgment had been procured through fraud and was unenforceable. In The Small Matter of Suing Chevron Suzana Sawyer delves into this legal trilogy to explore how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil. In Sawyer's analysis, chemistry proves crucial. Analytically, it affords a grammar for appreciating how molecular, technical, and legal agencies catalyzed distinct jurisdictional renderings. Empirically, the chemistry of hydrocarbons (its complexity, unfathomability, and misattribution) significantly shaped competing judicial determinations. Ultimately, chemical, scientific, contractual, and litigating techniques precipitated this legal saga's metamorphic transformation, transmuting a contamination claim into an environmental liability, then a racketeering scheme, and then a breach of treaty. Holding the paradoxes of complicity in suspension, Sawyer deftly demonstrates how crude matters, technoscience, and liberal legality configure how risk and reward, deprivation and disavowal, suffering and surfeit become legally and unevenly distributed.

Chakraborty, Chandrima / Pal, Dipyaman (eds.), Environmental Sustainability, Growth Trajectory and Gender: Contemporary Issues of Developing Economies. 360 pp. 2022:6 (Emerald, UK) <672-888>
ISBN 978-1-80262-154-9 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Environmental Sustainability, Growth Trajectory and Gender focuses on three major issues affecting developing economies: environmental sustainability, growth trajectory and gender. The social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change and loss of essential ecosystems are becoming increasingly apparent. Within the global community, the challenges of sustainable development and gender equality are growing in importance. The knowledge and collective action of women would improve productivity, boost conservation of ecosystems and enhance economic growth in developing countries. Environmental Sustainability, Growth Trajectory and Gender provides a wealth of information for academic researchers, postgraduate students, and faculties of different disciplines, and will lead to increased awareness, policies and actions that will enhance gender equality and provide full enjoyment of sustainable development.

Cutting, Roger / Passy, Rowena (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Outdoor Learning: Animals, the Environment and New Methods. (Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education) 256 pp. 2022:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-889>
ISBN 978-3-030-85094-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores contemporary developments in outdoor learning, where the outdoors is seen as the context rather than the subject of learning. Ranging from pathfinder pieces written by practitioners to rigorous research-based pieces of work, the book explores the growing interest in animals as the basis for wider learning strategies as well as drawing together a wide range of outdoor learning approaches for all ages. Within these two discrete sections the contributors, who are drawn from a wide range of practitioners, academics and researchers, describe and analyse innovative approaches that address the need to explore alternatives to current test-based approaches to education in the western world. The whole offers a contemporary, informative, alternative approach to outdoor learning for teachers, practitioners and students.

da Cal Seixas, Sonia Regina / de Moraes Hoefel, Joao Luiz, Quality of Life, Environmental Changes and Subjectivity: A Contribution to a New Line of Research on Climate Change. VI, 82 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-890>
ISBN 978-3-030-39221-5 hard ¥15,297.- (税込) EUR 64.99

This volume analyzes human suffering from material and human losses through the lens of subjectivity. The authors consider how mental health should be assessed in the current debate on quality of life and environmental changes, which is often overlooked in discussions on the topic with the greater focus on physical well-being and displacement. Specifically, this volume explores how environmental changes caused by climate change, natural disasters, and socioeconomic upheavals have a significant impact on mental health internationally.

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Davis, Heather, Plastic Matter. 176 pp. 2022:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-891>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1513-0 hard ¥20,471.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1775-2 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material-it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation.

Dobryden, Paul, The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder. 224 pp. 2022:5 (Northwestern U. Pr., US) <672-892>
ISBN 978-0-8101-4497-2 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8101-4496-5 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

This study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise of industrial modernity. Examining classic films-including The Last Laugh, Faust, and Kuhle Wampe-as well as documentaries, cinema architecture, and studio practices, Paul Dobryden demonstrates how cinema envisioned and interrogated hygienic concerns about environmental disorder.Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction after World War I, The Hygienic Apparatus explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representations of housework, urban space, traffic, pollution, disability, aging, and labor. Reformers worried about the health risks associated with moviegoing but later used film to popularize hygienic ideas, encouraging viewers to see the world and themselves in relation to public health objectives. Modernist architecture and design fashioned theaters into regenerative environments for fatigued spectators. Filmmakers like F. W. Murnau and Slatan Dudow, meanwhile, explored the aesthetic and political possibilities of dirt, contagion, intoxication, and disorder. Dobryden recovers a set of ecological and biopolitical concerns to show how the problem of environmental disorder fundamentally shaped cinema's relationship to modernity. As accessible as it is persuasive, the book adds to a growing body of scholarship on biopolitics within German studies and reveals fresh ways of understanding the apparatus of Weimar cinema.

Ekstroem, Anders / Bergwik, Staffan (eds.), Times of History, Times of Nature: Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge. (Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformation 5) 380 pp. 2022 (Berghahn, US) <672-893>
ISBN 978-1-80073-323-7 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

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Feess, Eberhard / Seeliger, Andreas, Umweltoekonomie und Umweltpolitik. 5., vollst. ueberarb. Aufl. 300 S. 2021 (Vahlen, GW) <672-894>
ISBN 978-3-8006-6452-8 paper ¥9,368.- (税込) EUR 39.80 *

VorteileDas aktuelle Wissen zu Ursachen und Loesungen von UmweltproblemenUmfassendes Lehrbuch zu Grundlagen und Instrumenten der Umweltziele im Rahmen der WirtschaftspolitikDidaktisch gut gegliedert und verstaendlich geschrieben Zum Werk Die weiterhin rasanten Entwicklungen in der Umweltpolitik und zunehmende Relevanz des Klimawandels in Politik und Praxis fuehrten zu umfangreichen Anpassungen in diesem beliebten Lehrbuch. Fuer diese Neuauflage wurden vor allem die Kapitel ueber die Umweltinstrumente (Auflagen, Steuern, Zertifikate) sowie die internationalen Umweltaspekte und Ressourcenoekonomie grundlegend aktualisiert. Darueber hinaus wurden auch die theoretischen Kapitel einer umfassenden strukturellen und inhaltlichen Ueberarbeitung unterzogen. InhaltSpieltheoretische GrundlagenTheorie externer EffekteAuflagenSteuern und AbgabenZertifikateVerhandlungsloesungenUmwelthaftungUmwelttechnischer FortschrittInternationale Koordination von UmweltpolitikOeko-Dumping und strategische HandelspolitikUmweltpolitik bei asymmetrischer InformationsverteilungRessourcenoekonomie Zielgruppe Studierende der Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre an Universitaeten und Hochschulen sowie interessierte Praktiker in Wirtschaft, Politik und Verwaltung

Furuhata, Yuriko, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control. (Elements) 256 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-896>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1519-2 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1780-6 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan's empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically "condition" Earth's atmosphere and socially "condition" the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko's fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who sought to design climate-controlled capsule housing and domed cities. Furuhata's transpacific analysis offers a novel take on the elemental conditions of media and climate change.

Herzberg, Julia / Renner, Andreas / Schierle, Ingrid (eds.), The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow. (Environment in History: International Perspectives 22) 348 pp. 2021:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-897>
ISBN 978-1-80073-127-1 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of "cold" in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.

Hoffman, Susanna / Eriksen, Thomas Hylland et al. (eds.), Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change. 454 pp. 2022:1 (Berghahn, US) <672-898>
ISBN 978-1-80073-189-9 hard ¥38,592.- (税込) US$ 179.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-417-3 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming.

Krause, Franz / Harris, Mark (eds.), Delta Life: Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea. (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 28) 262 pp. 2021:6 (Berghahn, US) <672-903>
ISBN 978-1-80073-124-0 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents 'delta life' with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops 'delta life' as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people's lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide.

Kupper, Patrick, Umweltgeschichte. (Einfuehrungen in die Geschichtswissenschaft. Neuere und Neueste Geschichte 3) 240 S. 2021 (Boehlau / UTB, GW) <672-904>
ISBN 978-3-8252-5729-3 paper ¥5,178.- (税込) EUR 22.00 *

Umweltgeschichte gewinnt in Lehre und Forschung immer mehr an Bedeutung. Das Buch fuehrt in Konzepte, Felder und Methoden des Faches ein. Es behandelt die grossen Themen der neueren europaeischen Geschichte wie Industrialisierung, Urbanisierung oder Imperialismus aus umwelthistorischer Perspektive. Geeignet fuer Lehrende und fuer Studierende vom Bachelor- bis zum Master-Niveau.

Kuecuekuestel, Selcen, Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia. (Interspecies Encounters 3) 238 pp. 2021:6 (Berghahn, US) <672-905>
ISBN 978-1-80073-062-5 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals. It focuses on the role of the spirited landscape which embraces all living creatures and acts as a unifying concept at the center of the human and non-human relations.

Kalb, Martin, Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa. (Environment in History: International Perspectives 23) 362 pp. 2022:4 (Berghahn, US) <672-841>
ISBN 978-1-80073-290-2 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich's everyday violence.

Wynn, Graeme / Carruthers, Jane / Jacobs, Nancy J. (eds.), Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories. (Series in Ecology and History) 304 pp. 2022:5 (Ohio U. Pr., US) <672-852>
ISBN 978-0-8214-2484-1 hard ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8214-2485-8 paper ¥7,966.- (税込) US$ 36.95 *

Klein, Peter Taylor, Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam. (Nature, Society, and Culture) 232 pp. 2022:7 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-875>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2613-7 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2612-0 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

In the middle of the twentieth century, governments ignored the negative effects of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also introduced accompanying programs to alleviate these harmful consequences of dams for local people, to reduce poverty, and to promote participatory governance. This type of dam building undoubtedly represents a step forward in responsible governing. But have these policies really worked? Flooded provides insights into the little-known effects of these approaches through a close examination of Brazil's Belo Monte hydroelectric facility. After three decades of controversy over damming the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, the dam was completed in 2019 under the left-of-center Workers' Party, becoming the world's fourth largest. Billions of dollars for social welfare programs accompanied construction. Nonetheless, the dam brought extensive social, political, and environmental upheaval to the region. The population soared, cost of living skyrocketed, violence spiked, pollution increased, and already overextended education and healthcare systems were strained. Nearly 40,000 people were displaced and ecosystems were significantly disrupted. Klein tells the stories of dam-affected communities, including activists, social movements, non-governmental organizations, and public defenders and public prosecutors. He details how these groups, as well as government officials and representatives from private companies, negotiated the upheaval through protests, participating in public forums for deliberation, using legal mechanisms to push for protections for the most vulnerable, and engaging in myriad other civic spaces. Flooded provides a rich ethnographic account of democracy and development in the making. In the midst of today's climate crisis, this book showcases the challenges and opportunities of meeting increasing demands for energy in equitable ways.

McNeish, John-Andrew, Sovereign Forces: Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America. 286 pp. 2021:6 (Berghahn, US) <672-878>
ISBN 978-1-80073-108-0 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region. Exploring cases of resource contestation in Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala, Sovereign Forces highlights the value of these relationships to the practice of environmental governance and peacebuilding in the region.

Schindler, Seth / Fadaee, Simin / Brockington, Dan (eds.), Contemporary Megaprojects: Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century. 180 pp. 2021:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-718>
ISBN 978-1-80073-151-6 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-152-3 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Contemporary megaprojects have evolved from the discreet, modernist projects undertaken in the past by centralized authorities to encompass everything from large-scale construction to space exploration. Contemporary Megaprojects explores how these projects have been impacted by cutting-edge technology, the private sector, and the processes of decentralization and dematerialization. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to ocean mapping to sports events, the contributions in this collected volume demonstrate the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.

Rogaski, Ruth, Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland. 440 pp. 2022:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <672-751>
ISBN 978-0-226-80965-6 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Making sense of nature in one of the world's most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents of imperialism. Mastery of biology had become a way to claim political mastery over a remote frontier. Beginning with this bizarre incident from the Korean War, Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of a little-known but historically important Asian landscape. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of political control intersected with projects designed to make sense of Manchuria's multiple environments. Covering more than 500,000 square miles, Manchuria's landscapes include temperate rainforests, deserts, prairies, cultivated plains, wetlands, and Siberian taiga. With analysis spanning the seventeenth century to the present day, Ruth Rogaski reveals how an array of historical actors-Chinese poets, Manchu shamans, Russian botanists, Korean mathematicians, Japanese bacteriologists, American paleontologists, and indigenous hunters-made sense of the Manchurian frontier. She uncovers how natural knowledge, and thus the nature of Manchuria itself, changed over time, from a sacred "land where the dragon arose" to a global epicenter of contagious disease; from a tragic "wasteland" to an abundant granary that nurtured the hope of a nation.

Kim, Eleana J., Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ. 224 pp. 2022:6 (Duke U. Pr., US) * paper 2022:7 <672-766>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1572-7 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1835-3 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has been off-limits to human habitation for nearly seventy years, and in that time, biodiverse forms of life have flourished in and around the DMZ as beneficiaries of an unresolved war. In Making Peace with Nature Eleana J. Kim shows how a closer examination of the DMZ in South Korea reveals that the area's biodiversity is inseparable from scientific practices and geopolitical, capitalist, and ecological dynamics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with ecologists, scientists, and local residents, Kim focuses on irrigation ponds, migratory bird flyways, and land mines in the South Korean DMZ area, demonstrating how human and nonhuman ecologies interact and transform in spaces defined by war and militarization. In so doing, Kim reframes peace away from a human-oriented political or economic peace and toward a more-than-human, biological peace. Such a peace recognizes the reality of war while pointing to potential forms of human and nonhuman relations.

Jones, Ryan Tucker / Wanhalla, Angela (eds.), Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds. (Asia Pacific Flows) 277 pp. 2022 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <672-784>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8898-5 hard ¥14,660.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean's history. Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.

Casimir, Michael J., Floating Economies: The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India. 362 pp. 2021:3 (Berghahn, US) <672-795>
ISBN 978-1-80073-029-8 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, the author deals with the socioeconomic strategies of the communities whose livelihoods are embedded here and analyses the ecological condition of the Dal, and the reasons for its progressive degradation.

Morizot, Baptiste, Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map. Tr. by C. Porter. 320 pp. 2022:5 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-69>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8839-4 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Swanson, Heather Anne, Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon. (Culture, Place, and Nature) 272 pp. 2022:8 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-294>
ISBN 978-0-295-75038-5 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75039-2 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian AnthropologyMultispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fishSince the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have been profoundly shaped by how people within and beyond Japan have compared Hokkaido's landscapes to those of other places, as part of efforts to make the new Japanese nation-state more legibly "modern." In doing so, they engaged in non-conforming modes of thinking that reached out to diverse places, including the American West and southern Chile. Today, the comparisons made by Hokkaido fishing industry professionals, scientists, and Ainu indigenous groups between the island's forests, fields, and waters and those of other places around the world continue to dramatically affect the region's approaches to environmental management and its physical landscapes. In this far-ranging ethnography, Heather Anne Swanson shows how this traffic in ideas shapes the course of Hokkaido's development, its fish, and the lives of people on and beyond the island while structuring trade dynamics, political economy, and multispecies relations in watersheds around the globe.

Nathan, Dev / Silliman Bhattacharjee, Shikha et al., Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains. (Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains) 320 pp. 2022:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <672-299>
ISBN 978-1-316-51227-2 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their costs of production in garment value chains in India and other garment producing countries, such as Bangladesh and Cambodia. Environmental services, such as freshwater for garment manufacture and land for cotton production, are degraded by overuse and untreated waste disposal. The resulting higher profits from the low prices of garments are captured by global brands, using their monopsony position, with few buyers and myriad sellers, in the market. This book links the concept of reverse subsidies with those of injustice, inequality and sustainability in global production.

Mayhew, Robert J. (ed. & intro.), Debating Malthus: A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) 2022 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-225>
ISBN 978-0-295-74989-1 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-74990-7 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, and the natural environment from early contexts in the sixteenth century through to the present day.Edited and introduced by Robert J. Mayhew, a noted biographer of Thomas Robert Malthus-whose Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), excerpted here, is an influential and controversial take on the topic-this volume explores themes including evolution, eugenics, war, social justice, birth control, environmental Armageddon, and climate change. Other responses to the idea of new "population bombs" are represented here by radical feminist work, by Indigenous views of the population-environment nexus, and by intersectional race-gender approaches. By learning the patterns of this discourse, students will be better able to critically evaluate historical conversations and contemporary debates.

Fernandes, Leela, Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State. (Jackson School Publications in International Studies) 288 pp. 2022:8 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-286>
ISBN 978-0-295-75042-2 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75043-9 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy."Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. While reforms of water governance promote privatization and decentralization, they strengthen the state centralized control over water through city-based development models. Understanding the political economy of water thus illuminates the consequent failures of the state within countries of the Global South.

Nye, Andrea, Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds: Aime Bonpland and Alexander von Humboldt. (SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics) 372 pp. 2022:1 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-102>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8701-4 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *