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

Ehrig, Stephan / Jung, Britta C. / Schaffer, Gad (eds.), Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Perspectives on Community-Building, Identity and Belonging. 320 pp. 2022:11 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <687-809>
ISBN 978-94-6270-348-3 paper ¥8,316.- (税込) EUR 27.00

Hohlfeldt, Marion / Popescu, Carmen (eds.), Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space. 304 pp. 2023:2 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <687-811>
ISBN 978-94-6270-359-9 paper ¥18,326.- (税込) EUR 59.50

都市人類学入門　第2版
Jaffe, Rivke / de Koning, Anouk, Introducing Urban Anthropology. 2nd ed. 240 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <687-812>
ISBN 978-1-03-212559-6 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212558-9 paper ¥9,683.- (税込) GB￡ 33.99 *

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first-century urban anthropological research? What are the possible future directions in the field?The chapters cover topics such as urban mobilities, place-making and public space, production and consumption, and politics and governance. These are illustrated by lively case studies drawn from urban settings across the world. Accessible yet theoretically incisive, Introducing Urban Anthropology will be a valuable resource for anthropology students and also for those working in urban studies and related disciplines such as sociology and geography. The revised second edition includes updated theoretical discussions and new ethnographic case studies. It features a new chapter on neoliberalism, austerity and solidarity, and engages more extensively with digital transformations of urban life.

Pandya, Samir (ed.), After Belonging: Architecture, Nation, Difference. 146 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <687-814>
ISBN 978-1-03-232909-3 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity. It attempts to extricate the oppressive ideology of national identity entrenched within the very idea of architecture. Authors investigate themes such as cosmopolitanism, diaspora, geopolitics, globalisation, hybridity, and race. Certain chapters expose highly regulated environments which support cultural hegemony, such as the context of a hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London, the illusionary rhetoric of 'authenticity' used to legitimise architectural conservation, and the role of the mosque as mediator between a post-war, multi-racial Britain, and ideas of nationhood. Others engage subjects at the urban scale, including the phenomena of universities transcending their nation-building roots to become agents of cosmopolitan urbanism, and how the discursive context of a high-profile yet unrealised modernist office-block in the City of London sustained a culture of British faux-nationalism. Remaining chapters adopt a postcolonial lens, with one examining how particular works of literary fiction reimagine notions of 'place' within an emerging intercultural nation, and another exploring the tense relationship between identitarian form and affective atmospheres to suggest the possibility of anti-essentialist experiences of architecture.Together, these perspectives propose an alternative vision of the City, where neither state-sponsored identity politics nor right-wing populism determine the cultural context within which architects design for our collective urban experience. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Architecture, Anthropology, History, Human Geography, Politics, Sociology, and Urban Studies. The chapters in this book, except for chapter 1, were first published in the journal National Identities.

地理空間技術と社会ハンドブック
Specht, Doug / Kent, Alexander (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. 696 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <687-816>
ISBN 978-0-367-42887-7 hard ¥56,980.- (税込) GB￡ 200.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society provides a relevant and comprehensive reference point for research and practice in this dynamic field. It offers detailed explanations of geospatial technologies and provides critical reviews and appraisals of their application in society within international and multi-disciplinary contexts as agents of change. The ability of geospatial data to transform knowledge in contemporary and future societies forms an important theme running throughout the entire volume. Contributors reflect on the changing role of geospatial technologies in society and highlight new applications that represent transformative directions in society and point towards new horizons. Furthermore, they encourage dialogue across disciplines to bring new theoretical perspectives on geospatial technologies, from neurology to heritage studies.The international contributions from leading scholars and influential practitioners that constitute the Handbook provide a wealth of critical examples of these technologies as agents of change in societies around the globe. The book will appeal to advanced undergraduates and practitioners interested or engaged in their application worldwide.

von Busch, Otto / Palmas, Karl, The Corruption of Co-Design: Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking. 152 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-817>
ISBN 978-1-03-225000-7 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-225001-4 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, co-design tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes?Such questions are becoming more pressing as co-design has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmas suggest that designers tend to overemphasize the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to reorient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay, and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft.In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palmas ask: What hard lessons about the social must today's designers learn from realists like Machiavelli?

Wiig, Alan / Ward, Kevin / Enright, Theresa et al. (eds.), Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities. 224 pp. 2023:3 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <687-818>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2562-4 paper ¥7,973.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99 *

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization. Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures' past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.

Overbeek, Fons van, Shaping Claims to Urban Land: An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces. (Connectivity and Society in Africa 2) 300 S. 2022:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-770>
ISBN 978-3-11-073880-3 hard ¥22,350.- (税込) EUR 94.95 *

The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms, processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify. Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic reading of governmentality enables researchers to study hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.

Cloke, Paul / Conradson, David / Pawson, Eric et al., The Post-Earthquake City: Disaster and Recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change) 288 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-616>
ISBN 978-0-367-22552-0 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider 'damage and displacement', 'recovery and renewal' and 'the city in transition'.It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures.The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery.

Yarwood, Richard, Rural Geographies: People, Place and the Countryside. 272 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-167>
ISBN 978-1-138-32795-5 hard ¥32,763.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-1-138-32799-3 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issues affecting the countryside.The book discusses how the countryside has been studied by geographers across a range of different scales, from village community to the global countryside. Each chapter provides a concise and well-illustrated introduction to a key theme in rural geography, using current literature and contemporary examples. The book is divided into four sections that cover rural contexts, changes, contests and cultures. The volume takes a global perspective but is largely centred on the Global North, reflecting the tradition of scholarship in rural geography.Rural Geographies is driven by thinking in human geography. It reflects how major paradigmatic changes in the discipline have impacted, and have been informed by, the sub-discipline of rural geography. The aim is to introduce key ideas and concepts that will teach students the critical skills necessary to analyse rural issues themselves. The text will be a valuable resource for undergraduate students studying rural geography and rural studies.

Farah, Leila Marie / Martin, Samantha L. (eds.), Mobs and Microbes: Global Perspectives on Market Halls, Civic Order and Public Health. 344 pp. 2023:2 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <687-207>
ISBN 978-94-6270-360-5 paper ¥15,246.- (税込) EUR 49.50

Sadowy, Katarzyna, Evolutionary Urban Development: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe. (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) 240 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-122>
ISBN 978-0-367-48671-6 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes covered include urban growth, decentralisation, path dependence, institutional change, governance, entrepreneurship and culture. Detailed case studies of the history-rich metropolises of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw allow the author to examine the adaptive abilities of cities in flux and draw conclusions with broader international relevance. This text will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in urban economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and Central European studies.