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

Curington, Celeste Vaughan, Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal. (Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor) 236 pp. 2024:9 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-295>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2796-7 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2795-0 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly "anti-racial" Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal-a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, has shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings, where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examines workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women's experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women "hyper-invisible" and "hyper-visible" as "appropriate" workers in Lisbon.

Bapna, Ravi / Ghose, Anindya, Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI. 208 pp. 2024:9 (MIT Pr., US) <728-304>
ISBN 978-0-262-04931-3 hard ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life. AI is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care most about: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life. In the process the authors help explain the underlying technology and give people the agency they need to shape the debate around how we should regulate AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks. Bringing over two decades of experience with cutting-edge research, consulting, executive coaching, and advising to bear on the subject, Bapna and Ghose demystify the technology of AI itself. They offer a novel 'House of AI' framework that encompasses traditional analytics, generative AI, and fair and ethical deployment of AI. Using examples from everyday life they showcase how the modern AI-powered ecosystem fundamentally improves the emotional, physical, and material well-being of regular people across the globe. Thrive s mission is to educate the public about AI, shape realistic expectations and foster informed discussions about a fast-emerging AI shaped society.

Bourgault, Sophie / FitzGerald, Maggie et al. (eds.), Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege: Critical Care Ethics Perspectives. (Carework in a Changing World) 230 pp. 2024:9 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-305>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3503-0 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3502-3 paper ¥8,181.- (税込) US$ 37.95 *

Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; feminist scholars like Carol Gilligan argued that women's moral experiences were not reflected in the dominant, masculinist approaches to ethics, which were centered on a rational, disembodied, atomistic moral subject. Care ethics challenged this model by positing ethics as relational, contextualized, embodied, and realized through practices rather than principles. Over the past decades, many care ethics scholars have sought to further this project by considering care politically and epistemologically, in relation to various intersecting hierarchies of power and knowledge. This book advances this project by discussing the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege and by considering how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines, and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.

Chiaraluce, Cara A., Becoming an Expert Caregiver: How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community. (Carework in a Changing World) 170 pp. 2024:12 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-306>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3191-9 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-3190-2 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

"The hardest thing is dealing with the rest of the world. And we kind of accommodate our lives around that. But the rest of the world doesn't." These poignant words were spoken by Charlotte, a mother and primary caregiver of a five-year-old autistic boy, and her words reference the structural arrangements of our world that shape autism carework today. This book features the voices of fifty primary caregivers of autistic and neurodivergent children who illuminate the process through which laywomen become expert caregivers to provide the best care for their children. Expert caregiving captures an intensification of traditional family carework - meeting dependents' financial, emotional, and physical needs - that transcends the walls of one's private home and family and challenges the strict boundaries between many worlds: lay and professional, family and work, private and public, medical and social, and individual and society. The process of becoming an expert caregiver spotlights several interesting paradoxes in sociological literature, particularly regarding gender, family, and medicalization, and often forgotten structural flaws in "the rest of the world." Throughout the chapters in this book, the expert caregiver is one person who faces unbelievably daunting tasks of filling or reforming persistent institutional gaps, primarily in education and health care, and subverting ableist cultural norms. Without institutional support, answers to their questions, or pragmatic avenues to access resources, lay caregivers become the experts. Their trials and tribulations, especially when navigating the boundaries of professional/lay and private/public worlds, illuminate a type of carework that is increasingly relevant to a growing number of young families caring for neurodivergent, disabled, medically fragile, and/or chronically ill children. These stories offer a vivid picture of the often invisible complex challenges and structural forces that drive individuals to become expert caregivers in the first place.

Deeb-Sossa, Natalia / Flores, Y. G. / Chabram, A. (eds.), Testimonios of Care: Feminist Latina/x and Chicana/x Perspectives on Caregiving Praxis. 232 pp. 2024:8 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-308>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5322-8 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8165-5321-1 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Pearson, Hilary M., A quoi sert la philanthropie: Explorer l'univers des fondations canadiennes. Tr. par G. Tombs. 232 pp. 2024:10 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <728-309>
ISBN 978-0-228-02288-6 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Pour la plupart des Canadiens et Canadiennes, le monde de la philanthropie et des fondations privees demeure mysterieux. Parfois comparees de facon memorable a des girafes, les fondations sont des creatures qui ne devraient pas exister. Pourtant, elles existent bel et bien, et elles sont meme entourees d'une aura mystique.Dans A quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson demystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait du paysage actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumiere des organisations qui agissent avec determination face a certains des defis sociaux et economiques les plus pressants de notre epoque : les changements climatiques, l'avenir des villes, l'education et l'evolution de la main-d'oeuvre, le logement et le besoin urgent de reparer et d'etablir de nouvelles relations avec les peuples autochtones. Mme Pearson, qui a travaille pendant deux decennies aupres des dirigeants de fondations a travers le Canada, nous offre un regard intime sur la facon dont ces organisations continuent d'evoluer. Par le biais d'entretiens personnels effectues aupres de la direction de fondations privees - grandes ou petites, etablies de longue date ou nouvellement creees - elle decrit les strategies et les efforts deployes par des fondations canadiennes pour rassembler les parties prenantes de la societe, faire le plaidoyer de causes importantes, servir comme intermediaires ou creer des partenariats.A une epoque marquee par des divisions sociales et des inegalites croissantes, A quoi sert la philanthropie? constitue une contribution opportune au debat actuel sur la legitimite de la philanthropie organisee. Mme Pearson defend avec conviction le role primordial joue par la philanthropie privee pour relever les defis d'une epoque en pleine mutation.

Phillips, Tarryn / Araujo, N. / Jones, T. W. et al. (eds.), Narratives of Wellbeing. 239 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-310>
ISBN 978-3-031-59518-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book critically interrogates 'wellbeing', a concept that is exploding in popularity across the globe. The collection of essays asks not only how wellbeing can be defined and measured, but what is created and excluded in the process of striving for and articulating wellbeing. The editors propose a narrative framework as a novel and insightful lens through which to analyse wellbeing and understand how the "good life" is sought, experienced and talked about. With case studies from around the world, the contributions explore the tensions and overlaps between various scripts about what it means to live well-historically, socially, culturally, economically, and spiritually. The collection brings together a rich array of disciplinary perspectives, including: sociology, politics, anthropology, history, indigenous studies, religious studies, development studies, paediatric medicine, and gender and sexuality studies. The diversity of chapters make the book accessible and appealing, not only to scholars and students of wellbeing in the health and social science disciplines, but also to a broader public readership intrigued by the rise and impact of a buzzword.

Arafat, S. M. Yasir / Rezaeian, Mohsen / Khan, M. M. (eds.), Suicidal Behavior in Muslim Majority Countries: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention. 352 pp. 2024 (Springer, GW) <728-132>
ISBN 978-981-9725-18-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The book is about suicidal behavior in Muslim majority countries. Islam is the second-largest religion in the world. There are also sizable Muslim populations in non-Islamic countries. Suicide is strongly prohibited in Islam and based on this tenet, suicide and self-harm remain criminalized acts in many Islamic countries. When compared to the global estimates for suicide rates and to non-Islamic countries, Muslim majority countries have lower rates, indicating that Islamic faith and practice may be protective against suicidal behaviors. However, several factors such as criminal status, stigma toward suicide, extreme dearth of research, low-quality data, and under-reporting make it difficult to draw any firm conclusions. Hence, this book aims to do a deeper study of suicidal behaviors in Muslim majority countries, covering epidemiology, risk factors, and the challenges of suicide prevention in Muslim majority countries.