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

エコ社会主義－入門
Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore, Ecosocialism: An Introduction. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 403 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-764>
ISBN 978-3-031-74287-3 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book offers an extensive critical overview of eco-socialism, one of the most generative and significant aspects of contemporary debates within socialism. Marxism has played a foundational role in the development of ecosocialism since its inception and has also led to critical reflections on the 20th century Marxism and ecological interpretation of Marxist writings. Despite the relevance of ecosocialism to the pressing debates on the ecological crisis and the growing literature on ecosocialism, there has not been a comprehensive account on ecosocialism and its variations. This volume seeks to fill this important gap and to pave the way for a more systematic development of this emerging paradigm. The book not only engages with a critique of other non-socialist ecological schools of thought in defence of ecosocialism, but also provides a critical overview of debates within ecosocialism and of ecosocialism itself. The latter includes an appraisal of ecosocialism in Bolivarian Venezuela and the implications of current efforts in the People's Republic of China to build an ecological civilisation. Furthermore, the book contains a crucial discussion about the relation between eco-socialism and indigenous studies and movements.

現代ドイツにおける右派のエコロジーとアイデンティティの政治 第2版
Olsen, Jonathan, Nature and Nationalism: Right-wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Germany. 2nd ed. 404 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-812>
ISBN 978-3-031-74341-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

In this new edition of his now classic 1999 book, Jonathan Olsen explores the relationship between the far right and the environment, or what he terms "right-wing ecology." Arguing that radical environmentalism is not exclusively a domain of the left, Olsen shows how many of Germany's far right parties and groups ground their ecological ideology in an anti-universalist anthropology which sees human beings as naturally 'rooted' in specific nations and cultural traditions. Pollution in this discourse signifies not only the disruption of the natural world, but the social world as well, thus providing an environmental justification for an anti-immigrant politics which finds resonance outside the specific milieu of the far right. A rigorously theoretical book, Nature and Nationalism challenges our understanding of the deeply ambiguous ways in which 'nature' functions to legitimate a wide variety of political ideas.

Altunkaya, Emirhan, Arctic Region in the Climate Change Era: Zone of Conflict or Zone of Cooperation?: Arctic Politics and Cooperation. 290 pp. 2024:8 (P. Lang, SZ) <736-837>
ISBN 978-3-631-92033-6 hard ¥18,057.- (税込) SFR 72.00

It is now beyond question that Arctic Region is experiencing an unprecedented and radical transformation. Due to the impacts of global warming, physical, climatic, and environmental conditions of the Arctic Region are rapidly changing. This rapid transformation of the icy conditions within the Arctic has increased the economic, environmental, social and political significance of the region within the last decades. Accordingly, once a peripheral and untended region for the global politics, today is becoming an inseparable part of the international political agenda. This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of evolution of Arctic Politics since 1980s; focusing on international cooperation, competition and conflict dynamics. It examines the emergence and development of international cooperation in the Arctic Region throughout the last three decades and interrogates challenges of this cooperation since mid-2010s and into more-troubled 2020s.

Sharifi, A. / Candelaria, J. L. / Kaneko, Shinji et al. (eds.), Navigating Peace and Sustainability in an Increasingly Complex World. (World Sustainability Series) 257 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-893>
ISBN 978-981-9787-71-5 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book, a sequel to a well-received book titled "Bridging Peace and Sustainability Amidst Global Transformations," delves deeper into the entwined roots of peace and sustainability and emphasizes their interdependence. How are peace and sustainability interconnected, and what key factors define the relationship between them? These questions were examined at the NERPS 2024 conference in Hiroshima and are central to our narrative. In this book, we explore the synergy of peace and sustainability through theoretical frameworks and real-world examples.We recognize that while the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has acknowledged the link between peace and sustainability, a significant gap remains. Too often, efforts to promote peace and sustainability run parallel, never intertwining, losing the chance to bolster each other. We argue for merging the peace and sustainability agendas to confront contemporary challenges, calling for action to enhance and take advantage of their mutual reinforcement. Through diverse perspectives, this collection illuminates the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of this nexus, serving as a guide for policymakers, a reference for researchers, and a catalyst for dialogue among sectors committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Korolkov, Maxim, Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE). (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 75 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-900>
ISBN 978-1-009-50726-4 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-108-96467-8 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered this image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. We know, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the Yangzi valley, as were some of the most sophisticated metallurgical centers of the following millennium. If southern East Asia was not a backward periphery of the Central Plains, then what created the power asymmetry that made possible "China's march toward the Tropics"? What did becoming "Chinese" practically mean for the local populations south of the Yangzi? Why did some of them decide to do so, and what were the alternatives? The present Element focuses on the specific ways people in southern East Asia mastered their environment through two forms of cooperation: centralized and intensive, ultimately represented by the states, and decentralized and extensive, exemplified by interaction networks.

Karackattu, Joe Thomas / Joseph, Justin et al. (eds.), Environmental Securitization in India and China. 200 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-924>
ISBN 978-981-9791-59-0 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book examines how emerging environmental challenges are situated within existing International Relations (IR) theoretical understandings of 'security'. As governments in the Global South undertake policy interventions to mitigate the impact of increasing climatic changes and yearn to achieve human-nature harmony, one can observe similar patterns of responses chiefly due to the ecology-economy dichotomy in these states and their societies. In this context, it brings to the readers various aspects of the theory and practice of state interventions in the form of environmental securitization in the Global South majorly under four themes (encompassing theory and policy processes). Chapters in this volume explicate connections between the environment and International Relations Theory, securitization in developing countries, state society and the environment in India and China and lastly, public participation and environmental policymaking. It presents a comprehensive and coherent overview of the politics of securitization in India and China, two prominent economies in the Global South. Faculty and researchers who work on non-western International Relations theory and non-traditional security threats, policy practitioners and experts in environmental policymaking, and students of IR and Comparative Politics, chiefly, will benefit from this book.

Phillips, Alicia / Kaschny, Laura (eds.), New engagement strategies for Energy Justice: Perspectives from the next generation. (Just Transitions) 164 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-345>
ISBN 978-3-031-74518-8 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book offers an innovative exploration of energy justice, from concept to action, highlighting its role as a crucial tool for navigating the complexities of a just and sustainable energy transition. The book is timely and as the global energy transition rapidly progresses, it will serve as an essential resource, offering practical guidance to advancing a just and sustainable energy future. The perspectives presented in this book are presented by early career energy justice scholars from around the world, each highlighting and proposing ways to navigate the transition. The discussion focuses on three key themes: the integration and repurposing of energy infrastructures with the use of technology, the need for affordable and accessible energy services, and the promotion of responsible governance through effective policymaking and corporate social responsibility. At the heart of this book is the presentation of the 'Toolkit to Achieve the Just Transition using the Energy Justice Framework'.

Short, Damien / Raftopoulos, Malayna, Anti-Fracking Movements: Citizen Networks for Environmental Justice. 240 pp. 2026:3 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-347>
ISBN 978-1-350-24745-1 hard ¥18,590.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-24744-4 paper ¥6,288.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Drawing on case studies from the UK, Spain, Germany, Colombia and Argentina, this book analyses how the anti-fracking movement has emerged as a powerful citizen platform with an ability to mobilize large numbers, change public sentiment and government opinion, and challenge powerful actors. In response to the fracking boom, anti-fracking groups have emerged throughout the world and are playing a pivotal role in exposing different instances of substantive environmental and ecological injustice. Although the ability of affected residents to draw upon translocal slogans such as "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) has been powerful and has helped the anti-fracking movement avoid becoming spatially restricted, little is known about the formation of these broad-based coalitions. Combining theoretical insights from green criminology and social movement studies, the authors address three critical questions: What role do shared claims of justice play in motivating citizens to join the anti-fracking movement? What are the strategies, actions and networks of the anti-fracking movement? Finally, how has the anti-fracking movement shifted from the local to the national, and then to global, levels?

von Mossner, Alexa Weik, Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice. (Elements in Environmental Humanities) 75 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-355>
ISBN 978-1-009-50057-9 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-50059-3 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories about vegan food justice. It shows that there is much common ground between these movements and that the stories told by them are worth exploring as part of a larger narrative about creating a better and more equitable future. In the United States, this is especially true for the stories told by and about people of color and their historically marginalized communities. Employing an econarratological approach informed by critical food studies, environmental justice ecocriticism, and transmedia studies, Growing Hope explores a selection of narratives about people who fight against food injustice and the ideologies sustaining it: stories about defiant gardening and culinary self-empowerment.

Arora, Anvita / Belaid, F. / Lechtenberg-Kasten, S. (eds.), Climate-Resilient Cities: Priorities for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. (Contributions to Economics) 390 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <736-357>
ISBN 978-3-031-73089-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of scholars and experts, the book presents theoretical approaches, identifies risk factors, and suggests policies for building resiliency in a region of the world undergoing rapid urbanization. Chapters cover a diverse range of topics, including innovative concepts and studies in resilient city design, the interaction of social, entrepreneurial, governmental, and ecological transformations in the GCC region, and international best practices for risk reduction. Coupling rigorous economic analysis and practical policy implications, this book will be useful for students and academics of finance, governance, energy and resource economics, and climate change, as well as policymakers, community leaders, and risk reduction professionals.This is an open access book.

Bernini, Francesca (ed.), Creating Value Through Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. (SIDREA Series in Accounting and Business Administration) 202 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-418>
ISBN 978-3-031-74291-0 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book examines the interaction between ESG strategies and value creation. It highlights how sustainability is a wide-ranging concept capable of engaging the social sciences in various ways. Firstly, the study analyses how ESG initiatives can enhance value creation using a framework inspired by strategic cost management. Then, it takes an ethical perspective by investigating the ethics-washing phenomenon associated with the (ir)responsible use of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, the focus is on the integration of ESG factors into risk management and performance measurement systems through the lens of management accounting, and on the interplay between corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance. Moreover, the book proposes a constitutionally oriented reading of corporate sustainability from a legal standpoint. It also includes the perspective of financial companies, exploring the role of administrative controls in fostering banks' commitment to sustainability. The study focuses also on an organizational perspective by exploring how human resource management can support ESG strategies. Finally, the research underlines the corporate model "Societa Benefit" to examine its effect on default risk.

Andrei, Jean Vasile / Mateoc-Sirb, Nicoleta et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference TENDEV 2023: Challenges and Strategies for Sustainable Development facing the Climate Change. 350 pp. 2024:7 (P. Lang, SZ) <736-272>
ISBN 978-3-631-91332-1 hard ¥24,829.- (税込) SFR 99.00

Climate change represents one of humanity's paramount global challenges and stands as a pivotal issue in sustainable development. This book delves into critical strategies for mitigating climate change and adapting to its impacts, emphasizing the integration of circular economy principles and the promotion of sustainability as imperative, especially through trans-sectoral approaches. The entire set of papers brings up research results and findings answering several of the Sustainable Development Goals, with a sense of complementarity integrating elements that lead to synergies when coupled and approached jointly.

Spencer, Hamish G., Beyond Equilibria: Historical Approaches to Ecology and Evolution. 160 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <736-137>
ISBN 978-0-19-285899-3 hard ¥25,454.- (税込) GB￡ 89.00
ISBN 978-0-19-285900-6 paper ¥10,006.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Ecologists and evolutionary biologists, especially those with theoretical and mathematical leanings, have tended to dismiss historical approaches as descriptive, smacking of particularities, allowing few generalizations (or even being untestable), and even antithetical to scientific explanation. By contrast, the concept of biological equilibrium pervades every aspect of ecology and evolution, from the popular notion of the 'balance of nature' to sophisticated mathematical analyses of critical points in the state space of scientific models. This novel book explains the problems associated with an over-reliance on equilibrium-centred explanations, creating a persuasive argument that an explicit consideration of history - i.e. looking beyond the equilibrium - will often lead to a deeper, more nuanced understanding of almost every eco-evolutionary system. The author introduces the concept of 'flavours' of history - the variety of ways in which history can play a critical role in biological processes. Like the flavours of our food, these historical flavours may not always be distinct: they may be blended or overlapping and any number may be present. However, distinguishing between historical flavours is of practical use in explicating ecological and evolutionary phenomena. Beyond Equilibria: Historical Approaches to Ecology and Evolution is aimed at a broad audience of graduate students and researchers in ecology and evolution. Although there is extensive discussion of mathematical models, the material is presented in such a way that no detailed knowledge is needed. The book will be particularly suitable for a graduate-level discussion course.

Salleh, Ariel, EnGender EcoSocialism! 224 pp. 2025:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-104>
ISBN 978-1-350-42941-3 hard ¥18,590.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-42942-0 paper ¥5,716.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

This second volume in Ariel Salleh's The Androcene and its Others trilogy brings women's labours in from the margins of ecosocialist thinking. With patriarchal capitalist coloniality the main driving force behind our planet's degradation, recognising the racialized and gendered 'meta-industrial labour class' is a vital strategic priority if ecofeminist thinking is to offer a vision of a more sustainable future. If we focus on production purely in terms of growth, we miss what Salleh calls the 'metabolic value' of living processes and with it the opportunity for political ecology to encompass life in all of its dimensions - biological, libidinal, ego-driven, moral and political.Cutting across existing Marxist ideas, EnGender EcoSocialism! is an ecofeminist conceptualisation of women's reproductive labour. The ecological challenges that face us demand that we break down the barriers between human and nature that have stood in our consciousness for millennia. This is a call to lay the ground for that breakthrough by healing the 'libidinal rift' caused when we ignore the value of unseen labour in our ecological processes. As it stands, this labour is captured by global capitalism and in turn subsidises it for free by regenerating its living resource base: the earth's population. With this book, Salleh illustrates the limits of mending the damage caused by industry and urbanisation without further understanding the immense importance of a combined ecosocialist, ecofeminist approach.

Abulafia, David, La mer sans limites: une histoire humaine des oceans. xi, 977 p. 2024:9 (Belles lettres, FR) <736-1048>
ISBN 978-2-251-45597-6 paper ¥9,298.- (税込) EUR 39.50

Adrian, Francisco-J. Hernandez / Theocharis, Angelos (eds.), River Delta Futures: Endangered Communities in Audiovisual Media. (Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities) 272 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1049>
ISBN 978-1-350-41761-8 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet? This book addresses this and related questions by adopting a local and transdisciplinary perspective on river deltas from different areas of the world.River deltas have historically been hotspots for human civilizations, as populations settled in their fertile grounds seeking resources and opportunities for prosperity. Despite this, the terrains and livelihoods of those who rely on them are under threat from human exploitation, environmental degradation, and rapidly accelerating climate change. Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this book provides a range of focused audiovisual analyses of deltaic spaces. Ranging across a variety of media, including documentary filmmaking, animation, photography, collaborative comic making, participatory visual art practices, soundwalking, and film analysis, it examines the role that contemporary audiovisual media play in forging global environmental imaginaries. In doing so, it adopts a transdisciplinary approach to the Blue Humanities from countries across the world, including Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Antweiler, Christoph, Anthropology in the Anthropocene: An Earthed Theory for Our Extended Present. (Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences) 501 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-1052>
ISBN 978-3-031-74590-4 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore relevant for a historically informed anthropology. He argues that we do not only need a geologically informed cultural anthropology, but conversely also an anthropologically oriented geology. A comprehensive geology must include material human culture as a fundamental geological phenomenon. In relation to cultural anthropology, the author discusses the challenge the Anthropocene poses for cultural anthropology as a traditionally micro-oriented social science. The book discusses where the blind spots lie in the highly interdisciplinary discussion. Common narratives are critically scrutinized. The author argues for the need for a new discipline: geoanthropology.

バイオマス、資本主義、ヘゲモニーの歴史
Daviron, Benoit, Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History. 424 pp. 2025:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1055>
ISBN 978-1-350-44324-2 hard ¥20,020.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00
ISBN 978-1-350-44323-5 paper ¥6,574.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99

How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of the world? In his magnum opus, published here in English for the first time as an open access book, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to show how biomass--as the metabolism of societies and as a source of matter and energy--explains key historical phases of Western capitalist hegemony and the transitions between them. By examining various uses of biomass, technical production and extraction methods, forms of labour mobilization, and exchange systems, Daviron provides startling new insights into capitalist development from the 16th century to the present. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical approaches to global development, and for anyone interested in how capitalist domination came to be and how the bio-meatabolic imbalances it created might be redressed.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Della Noce, Elio / Murari, Lucas (eds.), Expanded Nature: Ecologies of Experimental Cinema. (Experimental Film and Artists' Moving Image) 232 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1056>
ISBN 978-3-031-70728-5 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores the emergence of ecological consciousness in the work of contemporary experimental filmmakers. If it can be said that experimental filmmakers are "expanding" the artistic field through an exploration of the potencies, modes of dissemination and performance of the moving image, in the Anthropocene these practices strive for another kind of expansion: to expand our experience of nature. Appending flowers to the film strip or burying it in the ground, inventing observational devices, allowing the camera to be affected by natural forces, engaging one's own filming body in a symbiotic relationship with the environment, reconstituting ecosystems at the moment of projection: the ecologies of experimental cinema presented in this book constitute forms of practice and engagement that awaken a heightened sensibility towards the living world through cooperative links, casting other beings as subjects and agents of filmic processes, and, finally, reshaping the economy of filmmaking. Thus, ecologies of perception, medium, production, and multinaturalism are deployed, contributing to the restoration of our sensory bond with the natural world. Several chapters were translated with the help of artificial intelligence. In each case, the text has subsequently been revised further by the author as well as the translator Charlie Hewison and a professional copy editor.

Derman, Brandon Barclay, Climate Justice: Five Angles on the Crisis and the Movement. 136 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1057>
ISBN 978-3-031-75440-1 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

"Because the development of the carbon economy has always been closely bound up with the deepening of human inequalities, movements seeking climate justice need to unravel a tangle of social injustices at all scales. Through viewing the climate crisis from a range of historical and contemporary angles, Derman elevates the leadership of the most marginalized communities and nations, and interweaves their particular experiences with the universal values that bound climate justice movements together. His work is an effective introduction for educators and students to the complexities and promises of climate justice studies." -Zoltan Grossman, Faculty in Geography and Native American & Indigenous Studies, The Evergreen State College "Guided by a five-angle framework that aims to explore the emerging intersectionalities of space, time, difference, rule, and movement in climate justice theory and action, the book brings to light new possibilities and ways of imaging, doing, and transforming climate justice in a time of planetary urgency." -Peter Little, author of Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology This book provides an analytical introduction to the complex challenge of climate change and the equally multi-faceted movement for climate justice. Its approach is empirically and conceptually rich, while remaining both accessible and engaging. Each chapter examines the topic through a different thematic lens, drawing on contemporary and landmark scholarship, advocacy, and activism across relevant disciplines and campaigns. These distinct angles build toward a comprehensive perspective that will equip readers to ably and critically engage in era-defining policy, political, governance, and scholarly debates.

Eidinow, Esther / Schliephake, Christopher (eds.), Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts. (Ancient Environments) 232 pp. 2024:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1058>
ISBN 978-1-350-34419-8 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on a profound belief in universal order, and that the cosmos was harmonious and under human control. Engaging with the concept of chaos in both its ancient and modern meanings, and focusing on the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, this book reveals another sense of environmental awareness, one that paid equal attention to chance and chaos, and the sometimes-fatal consequences of human interventions in nature. Bringing together a team of international scholars, the volume investigates the experience of the interaction of humans with the environment, as reflected in ancient evidence from myths and philosophical treatises, to epigraphic evidence and archaeological remains. The contributors consider the role of the human in the formation of perspectives about the natural world and explore themes of agency, affordances, ecophobia, gender and temporality. Overall, the volume reveals how, in ancient imaginations, environments were perceived as living entities with their own agency, and respondent (or even vulnerable) to human actions and decision-making. It highlights how modern insights can enrich our understanding of the past, and demonstrates the increasing relevance of ancient historical research for reflecting on current relations to the natural world.

Estok, Simon C., Slime: An Elemental Imaginary. (Elements in Environmental Humanities) 75 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-1060>
ISBN 978-1-009-55070-3 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-55069-7 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. It is as central to life and growth as to death, degeneration, and rot. Slime heals and cures; it also infects and kills. Slime titillates and terrifies. It fascinates children and is the horror in stories and the disgusting in fridges. Slime is part of good sex. Slime is also worryingly on the rise in the warming oceans. Engaging with slime is becoming more urgent because of its proliferation both in the seas and in our imaginations. Inextricable from racism, homophobia, sexism, and ecophobia, slime is the least theorized element and is indeed traditionally not even included among the elements. Things need to change. Addressing growing climate issues and honestly confronting matters associated with them depend to a very large degree on theorizing and thus understanding how people have thought and continue to think about slime.

Grant, Samuel Leguizamon / Mantz, Felix / Frame, M. (eds.), Grassroots Responses to Extractivism: Case Studies from Around the World. 240 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1061>
ISBN 978-1-350-33160-0 hard ¥18,590.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-33164-8 paper ¥6,288.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South, in response to the injustices of the current global ecological crises. Rooted in contemporary ecological imperialism, these crises are subjecting marginalized communities in the Global South to the worst socio-ecological repercussions worldwide, whilst mainstream environmental policies and solutions reproduce market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western world-view.The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa and the Americas, such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia - among many others. The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.

Peters, Kimberley / Turner, Jennifer (eds.), Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders. 321 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1065>
ISBN 978-3-031-71321-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This Open Access book "Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders" is concerned with the persistence of bordering in ocean space, and the possibilities that might arise if we think beyond borders for modes of oceanic management, engaging the ocean's fluid physicality and the mobile human and more-than-human life entangled with it. At a moment where ocean governance is a pressing topic amongst academics, policy makers, governments and non- governmental agencies alike, this book takes on one of the most overlooked but central devices underscoring many modes of oceanic management: the border. Uniquely combining contemporary border scholarship with cutting edge ocean governance research this book tackles themes ranging from biodiversity conservation and asylum regulations to shipping management measures, tourism, and the growing blue economy. This edited volume hence explores varied bordering practices, whilst also addressing the 'common-senseness' with which bordering is deployed at sea, questioning - and problematising - its function and efficacy. Throughout 12 carefully curated chapters, authors ask: What borders are present in the seas and oceans, where and why? In doing this the book offers readers a simple provocation: Do we need borders? And can we govern differently?

Richmond, Chantelle, Because This Land is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession. 192 pp. 2024:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1067>
ISBN 978-1-350-24767-3 hard ¥18,590.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-24766-6 paper ¥5,716.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

Because This Land Is Who We Are is an exploration of environmental repossession, told through a collaborative case study approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities in Canada (Anishinaabe), Hawai'i (Kanaka Maoli) and Aotearoa (Maori). The co-authors are all Indigenous scholars, community leaders and activists who are actively engaged in the movements underway in these locations, and able to describe the unique and common strategies of repossession practices taking place in each community. This open access book celebrates Indigenous ways of knowing, relating to and honouring the land, and the authors' contributions emphasize the efforts taking place in their own Indigenous land. Through engagement with these varying cultural imperatives, the wider goal of Because This Land Is Who We Are is to broaden both theoretical and applied concepts of environmental repossession, and to empower any Indigenous community around the world which is struggling to assert its rights to land.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Vaughn, Jacqueline, Water in the West: A Reference Handbook. (Contemporary World Issues) 280 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-1072>
ISBN 979-82-16-18262-7 hard ¥15,730.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00

Water use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors. Today, though, serious questions are being raised about how western states used dams, irrigation systems, and other water-related infrastructure to transform the landscape of the West. Are current trends in water consumption across the West sustainable, given the region's arid environment and rapidly growing populations? Are so-called "water wars" between thirsty states (and between Mexico and USA) worsening? What impact will climate change have on the West's limited water resources--and the people who depend on them? This book answers all those questions and more, drawing on quantifiable facts and the knowledge and perspectives of experts on water resource consumption, administration, and conservation to provide a one-stop resource for understanding the past, present, and future of water in the American West.

Weber, Joe / Sultana, Selima (eds.), The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas. 211 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1074>
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This book contains recent geographic work examining the changing geography of protected areas in the U.S. and Europe. These places can be national parks, forests, or other places that are being protected for their significant aesthetic, historical, or environmental values by governments and communities. These places can be studied with reference to their physical environments, the management of their plant and animal life, which places are to be protected, who visits these places (and who does not, and why not), and how we think of these places. This work includes examinations of many parks and issues that affect them, such as land degradation, the social and political geography involved in creating new national park units, visitation by underserved segments of the population, and the changing names of protected areas. It makes use of work using methods and data as diverse as remote sensing, nineteenth survey plats and GIS, and online visitor surveys.