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

Carolan, Michael, A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America. 240 pp. 2021:10 (Redwood Pr., US) <667-492>
ISBN 978-1-5036-1328-7 hard ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility-or worse, hate-is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds.

Giannopoulou, Areti, Political Friendship and Degrowth: An Ethical Grounding of an Economy of Human Flourishing. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 216 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-370>
ISBN 978-0-367-75796-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-75798-4 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing.The Aristotelian political friendship embodies active concern for the others' well-being that contemporary societies lack; the crucial problems of ecological destruction and global poverty illustrate this friendship deficit. Arguing for the need for re-embracing a friendly civic ethos and re-aligning the economy with moral objectives, the author updates the Aristotelian idea and identifies it with democratic-autonomous political-economic praxis that ensures citizens' self-actualization. Degrowth movement questioning economic growth and productivism, and privileging a simpler life with less material goods, favours political friendship precisely because it nourishes its unconscious substratum namely human instinctual sociality. The call for genuine democratic political praxis that political friendship implies could enable the degrowth movement to retain its radical character and accomplish the shift to an economy which serves life.The book is worthwhile studying by students and researchers across social sciences and especially by scholars in the fields of sociology, philosophy, and politics, but also a broader readership sensitive to the issues of social and environmental sustainability will find this work extremely interesting.

Bartunek, Jean M. (ed.), Social Scientists Confronting Global Crises. 160 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1873>
ISBN 978-0-367-62422-4 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-0-367-62425-5 paper ¥6,834.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99 *

Social scientists develop knowledge that is directly pertinent to global challenges and crises and need to be included in initiatives taken to address them. This book is a step towards such presentation and involvement.Global crises are crucially intertwined with our relationships, groups, organizations, communities, institutions, how they collaborate with each other, how they compete with each other, and the dynamics intermingled with these. These dimensions are inadequately addressed by scientists and insufficiently recognized by other stakeholders. With contributions from a global array of respected social scientists, this shortform book contributes to deep understandings of social phenomena associated with global crises. In illuminating interventions via those dealing with challenges and crises first-hand, the book also shows the ongoing personal development required to address global crises in productive ways.This book will be of interest to social scientists, researchers, academics, organizational consultants and students in the fields of management, especially those focusing on global challenges and crises. It will also be a useful resource for practitioners and policy makers.

Crepon, Marc, The Trial of Hatred: An Essay on the Refusal of Violence. Tr. by D. J. S. Cross et al.. (Incitements) 288 pp. 2021:11 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <667-1875>
ISBN 978-1-4744-8025-3 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4744-8026-0 paper ¥5,979.- (税込) GB￡ 20.99 *

In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crepon makes a compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times.With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language, can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our lives today.

Hadas, Miklos, Outlines of a Theory of Plural Habitus: Bourdieu Revisited. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 142 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <667-1877>
ISBN 978-1-03-201705-1 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book explores the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, proposing a modification and extension of his concept of habitus. Building on Bourdieu's notion of the translational reproduction of social structure - the idea that while social classes move in the same direction, dominant groups are able to preserve their relative power position, thus maintaining the structure of the gap - the author proposes that as social structures change, habitus change correspondingly, and thus become plural. Informed by Norbert Elias' process sociology, this volume offers examples of habitus pluralisation, arguing that this modification of Bourdieu's thought renders it more suitable for the study of social changes and represents the development of a path that Bourdieu himself had begun to explore in the later stages of his career. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in historical sociology, process sociology, social structures and the thought of Bourdieu.

Myers-Lipton, Scott, CHANGE!: A Guide to Teaching Social Action. 200 pp. 2022:2 (Routledge, UK) <667-1879>
ISBN 978-1-03-214611-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-214608-9 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action is for faculty, staff, and students who are interested in developing a college course or co-curricular experience using social action. Social action occurs when everyday people band together to develop their power in order to change policy. What distinguishes a social action class from other social change courses is that students are actively involved in enacting a policy change of their choice, thus providing students with a first-hand experience of democracy and power. As part of the social action class, students can start a new campaign, keep a campaign going from the previous semester, reactivate a campaign from a previous year, or join a community campaign.The goal of this book is to train the next generation of democratic citizens and participants. The hope is that if teaching social action is mainstreamed in higher education, students will be able to do democracy more effectively, and help to preserve it at the same time. More specifically, the book provides an overview of the history of college social action, explores what needs to be considered before starting a social action class, explains how students choose their campaigns and launch them, and how students plan, implement, and evaluate their campaigns.

Northcott, Herbert / Wilson, Donna, Dying and Death in Canada. 4th ed. 384 pp. 2021:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <667-1880>
ISBN 978-1-4875-0926-2 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-0927-9 paper ¥10,553.- (税込) US$ 48.95 *

Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The fourth edition covers current issues and recent developments in the field, such as the implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. New topics include death doulas, death tourism, psychogenic death, bonds between the living and the dead, mass death events, and cultural diversity, sensitivity, and competence. This edition combines current research and language used to destigmatize conversations surrounding suicide, while new case studies offer personal accounts from doctors, nurses, and family members of the deceased. Exploring the significance of end-of-life experiences, Dying and Death in Canada shows that how we live influences how we die, and the society and culture in which we live has a profound effect on how we behave when confronted with dying and death.

Santos, Fabio, Bridging Fluid Borders: Entanglements in the French-Brazilian Borderland. (Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries) 192 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1881>
ISBN 978-1-03-204511-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-204512-2 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France's overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil's northern state of Amapa, which effectively acts as a one-way street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which borderland inhabitants such as indigenous women, illegalised migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being the hinterland of France and Brazil, in fact illuminates entangled histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.

Maniglier, Patrice, Le philosophe, la Terre et le virus: Bruno Latour explique par l'actualite. 268 p. 2021:10 (Les Liens qui liberent, FR) <667-120>
ISBN 979-10-209-1047-9 paper ¥4,472.- (税込) EUR 19.00

社会関係資本再考
Bankston, Carl L., III, Rethinking Social Capital. (Rethinking Sociology) 192 pp. 2022:5 (E. Elgar, UK) <667-1265>
ISBN 978-1-80037-978-7 hard ¥22,222.- (税込) GB￡ 78.00 *

Combining theoretical approaches with practical applications, Rethinking Social Capital delineates the meaning, uses, and problems surrounding the concept of social capital. Carl Bankston, a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh take on the topic, presenting an original way of understanding social capital as a process.The book provides key definitions of social capital, describing its functionality, the surrounding theoretical issues, and its relationship with social structure. Examining capital in its various forms, Bankston discusses the complications of defining social relationships in a financial resource analogy as investments in future outcomes, and proposes an alternative of an original structural model that approaches social capital as a process. Chapters then explore the major applications of social capital theory: to families, communities and education; to formal organizations and informal networks; to class, race, ethnicity and inequality; and to the nation-state. This cutting-edge book is invaluable in clarifying ambiguities surrounding the concept of social capital to students and scholars of the social sciences. Its practical applications will also prove useful to policy makers and public policy institutes.