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

イタリアとオーストラリア－21世紀のための二国間関係の再定義
Abbondanza, Gabriele / Battiston, Simone (eds.), Italy and Australia: Redefining Bilateral Relations for the Twenty-First Century. 237 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-533>
ISBN 978-981-9932-15-3 hard ¥23,206.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book offers a novel and comprehensive reappraisal of current relations between Italy and Australia. For the first time, it expands the scope of analysis by encompassing and critically reviewing research avenues that have been understudied so far. In order to pursue this objective, it provides innovative analyses on bilateral history, reciprocal migration, socio-cultural ties, international relations and trade, comparative politics, and scientific cooperation.By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book makes a significant contribution to multiple disciplinary literatures, benefitting social science scholars, policymakers, and professionals working in a number of fields. Mindful of the wide scope and multidisciplinary nature of this innovative research, the editors oversee a careful balance of different theories, methodologies, sources, and data, in accordance with the conventions of each discipline employed in this volume. As a result, this book encourages a broader and more nuanced understanding of Italian-Australian relations in the 21st century.

Matsuda, Matt K., Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific: Genetic Drift. (Palgrave Studies in Pacific History) 293 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-662>
ISBN 978-3-031-45448-6 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science. These include connected examinations of ancient voyaging reconstruction and migration routes, "warrior genes," a noted life-form patent case, questions of genetic engineering and biopiracy, the repatriation of ancestral remains, legacies of nuclear testing, and conflicts with the Human Genome Diversity Project in Oceania. It also considers the persistence of eugenics and race thinking within blood quanta and dispossession histories and how other histories are being written. Many of these subjects have been elaborated in detailed, specialist studies, but there is to date no single-volume overview of these multiple engagements that situates them all within a narrative framework of postwar racism and anti-racism, the technological promises ofgenetic science, and the cultural and political struggles and assertions of Indigenous islanders, whose voices structure and shape the arguments. It combines traditional archival and scholarly work with contemporary Islander commentary and research, and ranges from poetry to politics and molecular biology.

Meehan, Claire, The Politics of Porn for Young People in New Zealand. (Studies in Childhood and Youth) 162 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-664>
ISBN 978-3-031-46326-6 hard ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book sheds light on young New Zealander's social realities and lived experiences of their digital and sexual lives through an understanding of how they think about and engage with porn. Drawing on qualitative empirical data from interviews with 106 young New Zealanders, each chapter examines young people's creation of informal norms through an investigation of the broader issues associated with their engagement with porn, namely consent, gender, pleasure and 'empowerment.' Following this, the book gives voice to young New Zealander's perceptions of the value of the sexuality education they receive. Finally, this text argues toward a co-constructed intersectional sexuality education.

Webster, Steven S., Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand: Efforts to Assimilate the Maori 1894-2022. 408 pp. 2023:8 (P. Lang, SZ) <714-665>
ISBN 978-1-4331-9887-8 hard ¥27,470.- (税込) SFR 113.00

Sustaining Indigeneity in New Zealand is a revised collection of ten essays by Steven Webster, all written since 1998. Collectively they address national policies and indigeneity movements through a lens of class inequality. Webster describes efforts to assimilate the Maori since the advent of neoliberal policies in the 1980s, with a particular focus on the ways the Maori and their supporters have resisted or subverted these policies. Topics covered include: how an idealised version of Maori culture obscured assimilation of the Maori in the 1850s; the Maori renaissance of the later twentieth century; neoliberal subversion of Maori fishing rights; the struggles of Nai Tuhoe, who won control of their ancestral lands under a benevolent administration, lost it under a predatory successor, but then finally regained it in 2014; and commodity fetishism and the ways commodification is resisted and even turned back against the government by the Maori. Covering key episodes of Maori indigeneity movements, the book will be of interest to activists and scholars, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of anthropology, history, sociology, political studies, and ethnic studies.

オーストラリアにおける先住民と憲法改革
Harris, Bede, Indigenous Peoples and Constitutional Reform in Australia: Beyond Mere Recognition. 298 pp. 2024:1 (Springer, GW) <714-348>
ISBN 978-981-9971-20-6 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99 *

?This book examines whether Australia's constitution should be reformed so as to enable the country to fulfil its obligations under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it ratified in 2009. The book surveys the history of the constitutional status of Australia's Indigenous peoples from the time of colonisation through to the current debate on 'Indigenous constitutional recognition'. However, it argues that the term 'Indigenous constitutional recognition', implying that mere acknowledgement of the existence of Indigenous peoples is sufficient to meet their legitimate expectations, misrepresents the nature of the project the country needs to engage in. The book argues that Australia should instead embark upon a reform programme directed towards substantive, and not merely symbolic, constitutional change. It argues that only by the inclusion in the constitution of enforceable constitutional rights can the power imbalance between Indigenous Australians and the rest of society be addressed. Taking a comparative approach and drawing upon the experience of other jurisdictions, the book proposes a comprehensive constitutional reform programme, and includes the text of constitutional amendments designed to achieve the realisation of the rights of Australia's Indigenous peoples. It ends with a call to improve the standard of civics education so as to overcome voter apprehension towards constitutional change.

McIntyre, Phillip / Kerrigan, Susan / Fulton, J. et al., Creativity and Creative Industries in Regional Australia: Interconnected Networks, Shared Knowledge and Choice Making Agents. (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture) 443 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <714-145>
ISBN 978-3-031-45971-9 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the relationship between creativity, creative people, and creative industries in regional Australia through examining lived experience. The authors draw on more than 100 qualitative interviews with creative workers, and contextualise this creative work within the broader social and cultural structures of Australia's Hunter region (located north of Sydney, in New South Wales). An invaluable resource for anyone interested in creative ecosystems as well as creativity and innovation, this book is an ethnographic study using the Hunter region as a case connected to the national and global networks that typify the creative industry. This timely addition to the Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture series gives a unique insight into creativity and cultural production.