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

Krome-Lukens, Anna L., Strong State, Weak Links: Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare. 336 pp. 2026:6 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-361>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9366-8 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9367-5 paper ¥8,373.- (税込) US$ 37.50

In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to "improve" the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran one of the nation's most aggressive programs; between 1927 and 1977, at least 5,700 people were sterilized and thousands more were committed to institutions. While sterilizations in the 1950s and 1960s disproportionately targeted Black women receiving public assistance, the program's early focus was on poor white women. These policies were framed as scientific and progressive, yet they were deeply intertwined with racial and class biases, reflecting long-standing social hierarchies in the South. Anna Krome-Lukens examines those early years and reveals how white reformers such associal workers, politicians, and activists promoted the principles of eugenics while shaping the emerging welfare state before and during the New Deal. By using claims about fitness and mental defects to justify unequal access to public benefits, they defined who was worthy of care. Tracing this history, Strong State, Weak Links illuminates how North Carolina's eugenics programs influenced the modern welfare state and how their legacy continues to shape debates over social policy today.

Rafaeli, Tehila / Mann-Feder, Varda R. (eds.), Leaving Care around the World: Policy, Practice, Research, and Youth Participation. 458 pp. 2026:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <761-363>
ISBN 978-0-19-775881-6 hard ¥29,475.- (税込) US$ 132.00

Sarangi, Srikant, Teamwork and Team Talk: Decision-Making Across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care. (Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions) 336 pp. 2026:2 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <761-365>
ISBN 978-1-049-80052-3 paper ¥12,716.- (税込) US$ 56.95

Decision-making in institutional and professional settings has remained an area of curiosity for social science and communication researchers. This first-of-its-kind edited volume demonstrates how team talk and teamwork are paramount to decision-making in workplaces. In contemporary Western societies, the conditions of decision-making are rapidly changing with the foregrounding of division of professional labour and distributed expertise against the backdrop of a client-centred ideology that legitimizes shared decision-making. Increasingly, in health and social care settings, key decisions concerning clients are arrived at in team meetings, which have consequences both for the decisional processes and outcomes. This book argues that team-based decision-making can be studied optimally at the interactional level within an institutional backdrop. The contributors of Teamwork and Team Talk select particular sites of teamwork and team talk and adopt different analytical frameworks within the qualitative research paradigm to explore specific talk-work configurations. Like an orchestra, the division of interactional labour seems distributed and coordinated along the lines of role-responsibilities. Bringing together empirically grounded studies focusing on how team talk and teamwork are paramount for problem formulation, generation of options, assessment of solutions and more, the team of global contributors brings to light the tensions, benefits, and complexities inherent to these processes.

ウェルビーイングのための再生経済の創造必携
Ragnarsdottir, Kristin V. / Torfason, Asgeir B., The Elgar Companion to Creating a Regenerative Economy for Wellbeing. 336 pp. 2026:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <761-245>
ISBN 978-1-80088-496-0 hard ¥56,430.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir and Asgeir Brynjar Torfason bring together their interdisciplinary expertise in economics and natural sciences to rethink the unsustainable and resource-driven global economy. With an emphasis on inequalities, the authors highlight the need for a regenerative economy to achieve sustainability for the long-term wellbeing of our planet and its inhabitants.The authors present fresh insights into creating a regenerative economy to address the impact of the economy of destruction, covering ecological crises, biodiversity loss and climate change. The book draws on international cases, particularly in leadership and science, moving the discussion from abstract critique to tangible policy relevance. Chapters forge new pathways for crafting a regenerative economy that focuses on wellbeing, incorporating new leadership, and the role of women and feminist perspectives. The authors underscore the importance of how integrating planetary boundaries into economic policy is critical for economists and policy analysts to assess trade-offs and sustainability solutions in the current world crisis.The Elgar Companion to Creating a Regenerative Economy for Wellbeing is a crucial resource for students and scholars of sustainability, environmental economics, development studies and business and management. Policymakers, advocacy groups and international institutions will also benefit from the book's new thinking on the sustainable economy and actionable policy insights.

J.ミッジリィ著　ソーシャル・プロテクションと開発
Midgley, James, Social Protection and Development: Growth, Welfare and Equity. 224 pp. 2026:3 (E. Elgar, UK) <761-266>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0818-7 hard ¥28,215.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This insightful book examines the crucial role of social protection in development, with a particular focus on the Global South. Drawing on extensive empirical research and theoretical frameworks, internationally recognized social development scholar, James Midgley counters neoliberal economic arguments that claim social protection schemes negatively impact development. Instead, he demonstrates how they stimulate economic growth, maximize welfare and foster egalitarian ideals.Midgley explores key historical contexts, tracing how the field of development has expanded to address issues of inequality, gender, popular political participation and ecological sustainability. He highlights the ways in which social protection can advance these goals, while noting the significant challenges and obstacles to their implementation, such as resource scarcity, inadequate coverage and limited administrative capacity. Chapters examine the impact of social protection on economic stability, outlining how these programs boost consumption, mobilise investments and support productive work. Midgley argues for the prioritisation of social protection strategies, advocating for their integration into government development policies.Social Protection and Development is a valuable resource for scholars and students of development, social and public policy, economics and social work. It is also relevant to those working in international development agencies and intergovernmental aid programs where social protection is increasingly essential.