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

インドと中国のオンライン政治－東西を超えた社会理論
Schroeder, Ralph, Online Politics in India and China: Social Theory Beyond East and West. 248 pp. 2026:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <765-917>
ISBN 978-0-19-778226-2 hard ¥23,677.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-0-19-778227-9 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Is it possible to use the social science toolkit developed in the West to explain social change in the East? In Online Politics in India and China, Ralph Schroeder seeks to understand not only the online political dynamics of India and China but also the social theory underlying it. Schroeder compares these two countries with other parts of the world, and especially the US. He examines populism, the role of social media in elections, and how social movements mobilize online--all questions currently at the top of the research agenda. Specific cases are used to illustrate online political mobilization, including feminism and gender politics, climate change activism, and anti-globalism. Schroeder also considers internet regulation, Aadhaar and the social credit system, and the current geopolitics of artificial intelligence. The digital transformations of politics in India and China, he argues, can not only help to understand how theories of social change and the role of media apply beyond the West, but also shed light on two rapidly growing countries now set to become major players on the world's geopolitical stage.

L.ヴァカン著　刑罰国家再考
Wacquant, Loic, Rethinking the Penal State. 512 pp. 2026:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <765-610>
ISBN 978-1-5095-7303-5 hard ¥20,282.- (税込) US$ 89.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-7304-2 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loic Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state. Extending Pierre Bourdieu's signal concepts of bureaucratic field and symbolic power, he resolves the opposition between rationalist theories of penality running from Jeremy Bentham to Karl Marx and emotionalist theories descending from Immanuel Kant to Emile Durkheim to capture the constitutive duality of punishment at once material and symbolic, an instrument of class control and a means of communicating values, endlessly oscillating between rehabilitation and retribution.By rolling out the police, court, prison and their bureaucratic tentacles, the penal state curates crime, contains moral disorders, manages urban marginality and draws the boundary of citizenship. Its day-to-day deployment also signals sovereignty and serves to manufacture political legitimacy in the eyes of the general population. But the penal Leviathan is a bifurcated state which captures nearly exclusively dispossessed and dishonored categories by targeting their neighborhoods: it is everywhere a class-splitting and a race-making institution based on the stubborn differentiation of 'paper penalty' and 'street penality' The structural osmosis between districts of urban dereliction and the carceral institution on both sides of the Atlantic is such that we cannot understand the penal state without understanding the dual city and vice versa.To flesh out penal power as strategic action, Wacquant takes us deep inside a criminal court in California where we discover that the prosecutor who negotiates guilty pleas is the human spear of the state. In his daily tussles with defense attorneys and the sentencing judge, he calibrates and drives the concrete infliction of physical and psychic force upon bodies deemed out of order.Getting inside the machinery of criminal justice shows that punishment must be placed at the epicenter of the political sociology of statecraft, group-making and place-making in the metropolis as well as brought to the forefront of civic debate, rather than abandoned to the periodic panic-peddling of electoral politics. Instead of chasing the chimera of abolition, we should muster the intellectual resources needed to reclaim the vexed duality of 'law and order' for a progressive politics. This requires articulating a radical penal minimalism suited to reconciling punishment and democratic citizenship.Elegantly formulated and crisply argued, this book will be of interest to social scientists, criminologists and jurists as well as to scholars across the disciplines looking for novel ways to envisage the state, the law, punishment and inequality.

Cass, Devon / Campos, Andre Santos (eds.), Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice: Examining Social Hierarchy Across Generations. 168 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <765-758>
ISBN 978-1-041-31365-6 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Intergenerational justice concerns what is owed between members of different generations, including what we existing today owe those who will come to exist in the future. This subfield has become increasingly important in recent years; however, due to the absence of coexistence and other aspects of the intergenerational context, it is often unclear whether and how many ideals of justice apply.Relational egalitarianism - the view that justice requires eliminating certain forms of social hierarchy and realising certain kinds of equal social relationships - may appear particularly problematic in this regard, focused as it is on the quality of social relations. The chapters in this volume examine and take up this issue, with some authors developing and characterising the challenge, showing more precisely what is at stake, whilst others chart possible ways of resisting the challenge. Contributors explore temporal non-overlap arguments, institutional status frameworks, social categories, and power relations across generations.Essential reading for political philosophers, moral theorists, and scholars of democratic theory examining the intersection of equality and intergenerational obligations. The volume advances understanding of both intergenerational justice and relational egalitarianism, offering rich insights for academic researchers and advanced students in political philosophy, ethics, and social theory. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

C.クラウチ著　排除と憎悪の新しい政治
Crouch, Colin, Exclusion and the New Politics of Hatred. 192 pp. 2026:3 (Polity Pr., UK) <765-759>
ISBN 978-1-5095-7322-6 hard ¥5,637.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Colin Crouch argues that at the base of all political conflicts are struggles over which types of people should be included in and which excluded from various rights, including the right to exist at all within a particular society. This is more fundamental than any conflict between left and right or between classes, and it gives rise to tropes of inclusionary and exclusionary rhetoric that can be transferred across issues - from ethnicity to gender and sexual orientation, and including demands for nations to isolate themselves as much as possible from contacts with others.Today the forces seeking exclusions of many kinds are gaining ground in the strategies of many governments, parties and movements. Drives to exclude lead rapidly to the incitement of hatred, which leads in turn to acts of performative cruelty and physical violence.Deeply opposed as he is to the politics of exclusion, Crouch seeks to understand and explain its rationality. He passionately advocates a politics of inclusion but, at the same time, he recognises the real obstacles that a commitment to inclusion must confront. While not optimistic about how these struggles will play out in the coming years, he seeks a path through which campaigns for openness and welcome could still triumph in dark times.

Bass, G. Nelson (ed.), Labor, Capitalism, and Class Power. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 356) 204 pp. 2026:4 (Brill, NE) <765-268>
ISBN 978-90-04-75723-3 hard ¥33,402.- (税込) EUR 126.00

What role can and should the working class play under 21st century global capitalism? The scholars contained in this work approach questions regarding the place of labor in a variety of forms under neoliberal capitalism. These chapters examine labor as political and social movements, both in and out of power, in the UK and Greece (amongst others), as well as the ramifications of global capitalism for workers themselves places as disparate as Haiti and the United States. While critiquing what has failed, each offers a vision for what working class solidarity could accomplish, and more importantly how to get there. Contributors are: Ronald W. Cox, Ransford F. Edwards Jr., Jamie A. Gough, Martin Hart-Landsberg, William I. Robinson, Xuan Santos, and Kim Scipes.

Sharma, Aparna / Sehrawat, Anil / Chandola, T. K. (eds.), Humanities and Social Sciences: A Multidisciplinary Approach. 962 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <765-10>
ISBN 978-1-041-29925-7 hard ¥71,093.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This compilation of original, peer-reviewed papers takes a multidisciplinary approach to address a diverse range of topics in the humanities and social sciences. It explores traditional knowledge systems and their relevance to sustainable development, leadership, health, and ethics.The book delves into various themes of Indian Knowledge System, Global Relations, Governance, Policy, and Political Dynamics, Geographical Innovations, Revisiting Indian History and Culture, Contemporary Sociological Imagination, Dialogues in Literature and Literary Discourse, Communication and Language Studies, Contemporary Issues in Mental Health and Well-being, Law, Gender, Human Rights and Teacher Education. With a special emphasis on historical and cultural developments, it provides a comprehensive understanding of society, economy, human behaviour and policy in the modern world through novel academic perspectives.This volume serves as a valuable resource for academicians, researchers and students in the field of humanities and social sciences. It also addresses concerns of policymakers, educators, civil society members, and professionals working in NGOs, governance, law, business, media, and environmental advocacy.

Batko, Kornelia / Marszalek-Kawa (eds.), Societies of Anxiety and Fear: Post-Pandemic and Wartime Reflections. 270 pp. 2026:6 (Brill, NE) <765-1108>
ISBN 978-90-04-75653-3 hard ¥25,979.- (税込) EUR 98.00

We live in an age of polycrisis-pandemics, wars, climate emergencies, and digital upheavals shape our everyday lives. Societies of Anxiety and Fear: Post-Pandemic and Wartime Reflections reveals how fear and uncertainty are not only personal feelings but powerful social and political forces redefining our world. Drawing on political science, sociology, psychology, and media studies, this book explores how institutions, communities, and individuals navigate overlapping crises. From Poland's unique experiences to global perspectives, it examines trust, solidarity, and resilience in turbulent times. A thought-provoking read for anyone seeking to understand our anxious era-and the possibilities for shaping a more secure future. Contributors are: Teresa Astramowicz-Leyk, Adam Bartnicki, Kornelia Batko, Ilona Biernacka-Ligeza, Bozena Dziemidok-Olszewska, Olga Grajek, Karolina Grzyb, Damian Guzek, Joanna Kukier, Elzbieta Kuzelewska, Maciej Marmola, Marta Michalczuk-Wlizlo, Joanna Marszalek-Kawa, Tatyana Nagornyak, Agata Olszanecka-Marmola, Edyta Pietrzak, Marlena Piotrowska, Danuta Plecka, Anna Siewierska, Mateusz Sobiech, Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, and Patryk Wawrzynski.

Bordoni, Carlo, Public Intimacy: The Dissolution of the Private in Liquid Society. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 176 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <765-1109>
ISBN 978-1-041-23860-7 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society, where personal boundaries are increasingly dissolved through digital technologies, exploring how social networks and new media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their most intimate thoughts and experiences in search for recognition and connection in a fragmented, liquid modern world. Throughout six focused chapters, the book explores the transformation of community bonds, the exhibition of intimacy online, and the rise of emotion-driven politics. It reveals how the constant sharing of private life creates a society dominated by the present moment, where fleeting connections replace deeper relationships and reason is subordinated to emotional impulses, leading to populist and sovereigntist tendencies. Drawing on lucid analysis of the dialectics of the state, the community, machine-based interaction, and the loss of intimacy, it thus offers valuable and timely insights into the changing nature of social relationships in late modernity. This timely analysis will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and philosophy, as well as researchers in the social sciences more broadly with interests in understanding the social implications of digital culture.

Corbould, Clare / Emmett, Hilary / Garland, Sarah et al., American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies: Infinite Space. (Routledge New Area Studies) 232 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-1111>
ISBN 978-1-041-13741-2 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book explores what it means to study America in the 21st century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.Analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality and periodization, this book reveals both fields of study through the lens of interdisciplinary cases studies, innovative methodologies and a global perspective. Exploring the imagined geographies of America across space and time, the book rethinks the meaning and production of place, and questions what -and where-it means to study America now.Addressing the key issues of nation, place and people in this new disciplinary moment, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of American Studies and Area Studies.

Funez-Flores, Jairo I. et al. (eds.), Decolonial Entanglements: Praxis, Pedagogy, and Social Theory. (Decolonial Entanglements) 268 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-1113>
ISBN 978-1-032-85997-2 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book responds to a critical geopolitical moment where decolonial thought, praxis, and pedagogy confront urgent questions of resistance in the face of Palestinian genocide and scholasticide, alongside other forms of state-sanctioned colonial violence against Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and displaced peoples worldwide.Establishing solidarity across diverse movements, while respecting their unique histories and contexts, this volume embraces relational methodologies that foster dissent, points of tension, and conjunctures, and at the same time advances pedagogical practices aimed toward coalition-building. By bringing together anticolonial concepts, decolonial methodologies, and abolitionist thought, it challenges colonial systems of knowledge amplifying theoretical frameworks and practical pedagogical approaches that center knowledge rooted in collective struggles and movements. Together, the chapters serve to emphasize interconnectedness among distinct liberation projects, and to offer a shared vision for decolonial futures grounded in pedagogies of solidarity and internationalism.Essential for academics and graduate students in decolonial and abolitionist studies in education, international and comparative education, philosophy and sociology of education, and globalization studies.

A.ギデンズ他著　社会学の本質的概念　第4版
Giddens, Anthony / Sutton, Philip W., Essential Concepts in Sociology. 4th ed. 264 pp. 2026:3 (Polity Pr., UK) <765-1114>
ISBN 978-1-5095-7416-2 hard ¥15,772.- (税込) US$ 69.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-7417-9 paper ¥5,625.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding of these concepts necessarily evolves and changes.This clear and jargon-free book introduces a careful selection of essential concepts that have helped to shape sociology and continue to do so. Going beyond brief, dictionary-style definitions, Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton provide an extended discussion of each concept which sets it in historical and theoretical context, explores its main meanings in use, introduces relevant criticisms, and points readers to its ongoing development in contemporary research and theorizing.Organized in ten thematic sections, the book offers a portrait of sociology through its essential concepts, ranging from capitalism, identity and deviance to the digital revolution, environment, postcolonialism and intersectionality. Revised and updated for this new Fourth Edition, this book will be essential reading for those approaching sociology for the first time as well as anyone seeking a reliable guide for understanding a rapidly changing world.

A.ギデンズ他著　社会学　第10版
Giddens, Anthony / Sutton, Philip W., Sociology. 10th ed. 1008 pp. 2026:3 (Polity Pr., UK) <765-1115>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6412-5 paper ¥11,262.- (税込) US$ 49.95

The indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we leadThis thoroughly revised and fully updated tenth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of the sociological approach to contemporary global challenges and the latest conceptual developments in this fascinating subject.Written in a fluent, easy-to-follow style, the book manages to be both intellectually rigorous and readily accessible. As well as providing a firm grounding in the classics of the field and their decolonial critique, it draws particular attention to dominant themes shaping the social world today, from the increasing digitization of society to the important role identity plays in numerous contexts.The tenth edition includes: a solid foundation in the basics of sociology - its purpose, methodology and theories;up-to-date overviews of the core topics in sociology - from class, gender and race to globalization, the media and politics;stimulating discussion of what sociology has to say about key issues of our time, such as climate change, the resurgence of military conflict and the growing polarization of politics in societies across the world;maintaining the focus on global connections which has animated this book since its very first edition, the tenth edition further develops this by analysing global inequalities today and exploring the ways in which digital technologies are radically transforming our lives;employing an interactive pedagogy, the tenth edition aims to engage and excite readers and help them see the enduring value of thinking sociologically. The tenth edition continues to set the standard for introductory sociology in a rapidly changing and ever more complex social world. It is the ideal teaching text for first-year university and college courses and it will help to inspire a new generation of sociologists.

Rosa, Hartmut, Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality. 144 pp. 2026:3 (Polity Pr., UK) <765-1116>
ISBN 978-1-5095-7206-9 hard ¥13,517.- (税込) US$ 59.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-7207-6 paper ¥4,497.- (税込) US$ 19.95

Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels like we are running out of time. In all western societies, time scarcity is increasing and individuals report the impression of having to run faster and faster every year - not in order to get somewhere, but just to stay where they are.In this short book Hartmut Rosa outlines his theory of social acceleration and uses it to analyse the causes and consequences of the temporal processes that characterize modern societies. He shows that modern temporal structures are governed by the logic of an acceleration process that defines the essence of modernity. He also develops a critical theory of social acceleration, arguing that acceleration leads to severe forms of alienation from time and space, from things and actions and from self and others, thus constituting a key obstacle to the realization of a 'good life' in late-modern society.

Smith, John A. / Wilson, Anna, Social Construction as a Complex Attractor: The Multiple Dimensions of Entanglement, Innovation and Recurrence. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 256 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-1119>
ISBN 978-1-041-04181-8 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought.The idea that reality is socially constructed has dominated sociological thinking since Berger and Luckmann's seminal work in the 1960s, but it has also been widely accepted across society and the media as the explanation of a wide range of phenomena including conceptions of beauty, the value of money, moral standards, religion, nationality and race. By analysing a selection of key twentieth and twenty-first century movements, Smith and Wilson show that the space of possible outcomes is always materially as well as socially constrained and identify path-dependent patterns of conservation and innovation.Exploring questions of power, stratification, solidarity and freedom, it is an essential read for those who want to go beyond description and critique, and instead actively seek to understand why these are recurring patterns in human society, what kinds of alternatives might be possible, and what futures are open to us. As such it will appeal to scholars and students interested in complex approaches across a wide range of fields, in particular to those working within sociology, social theory, philosophy, anthropology and geography.

Standish, Katerina / Schmitz, Cathryne L. / Sloan, L. M., Encounter Theory: Understanding and Transforming Violence through Connection, Nonviolent Engagement, Interrelationship, and Humanization. 208 pp. 2026:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <765-1120>
ISBN 978-0-19-775019-3 hard ¥23,677.- (税込) US$ 105.00

This book presents Encounter Theory; an approach grounded in engagement with difference and the principle of nonviolent conflict transformation. It offers scholars, peacebuilders, and students a comprehensive way to understand and practice violence transformation by drawing on diverse frames, concepts, and pedagogies from multiple disciplines. Schmitz, Standish, and Sloan, who work across personal, interpersonal, community, and international contexts, aim to create a platform for addressing violence in society, culture, and the self in the twenty-first century. At its core, Encounter Theory calls for meeting others and their deeply held beliefs within a space that is non-dominatory and non-discriminatory, fostering recognition and appreciation. Through such encounters, individuals move toward relationality, building bonds of understanding and re-humanization. The book argues that creating a nonviolent world requires tools that allow us to continually and relentlessly engage with difference, without resorting to violence. The book begins by introducing the foundations of Encounter Theory and then expands its application through an interdisciplinary lens. It explores the breadth of human harm and offers critical perspectives that enable encounter to become a lived practice. Later chapters examine emancipatory peace frameworks, critique limiting approaches, and synthesize insights to illustrate how encounter can serve as a transformative method for addressing violence. Ultimately, the book positions Encounter Theory not only as a theoretical construct but as a practical pathway toward nonviolence and deeper human connection.

Theron, Linda / Mitchell, Claudia / Levine, Diane, The Use of Drawings in Social Change Research: Centering Participant Insights. 194 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-12>
ISBN 978-1-032-76633-1 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-75367-6 paper ¥13,288.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99

The Use of Drawings in Social Change Research is a practice-oriented guide to draw-and-write and draw-and-talk methods in qualitative research. It offers a clear, structured account of how drawing, paired with participant explanation, can be used to generate and interpret visual-narrative data in research concerned with social change. Grounded in applied work, the book demonstrates how these methods operate across diverse social, cultural, and institutional settings. The book provides step-by-step guidance on designing prompts, supporting participants, and analysing drawings alongside written or spoken accounts. It addresses ethical questions of consent, power, language, and dissemination, equipping readers to work responsibly with visual material. Contributions from scholars working internationally show how drawing practices can surface nuanced accounts of lived experience across age groups, disciplines, and research aims. The final section extends the methodology into emerging areas, including creative and embodied approaches, comics-based research, and AI-supported practices. This book is written for researchers, practitioners, and postgraduate students engaged in qualitative, arts-based, participatory, educational, health, or child-centred research, particularly those working on issues of social justice and social change.