The University of Tokyo-Routledge Global Studies Series

The University of Tokyo/Routledge Global Studies series publishes works that explore new directions in global studies by crossing disciplinary boundaries and redefining what ‘the global’ means in the contemporary era. In the context of globalization’s challenges and possibilities, this series features works that refer to plurality and heterogeneity of the world from diverse viewpoints and values beyond Eurocentrism. Second, the series pays attention not only to human society but to the earth, including climate change, ground subsidence, deforestation and loss of biodiversity and thus seek to go beyond anthropocentrism. Third, it critically re-examines the basis of our ontology – ideas and imagination of what constitutes our globe. Featuring studies from Japan and Asia, the books examine various philosophical, religious, and spiritual traditions of the world from a multicentred and multidimensional approach to critically search for a new universal. This is an academic experiment to search for the socio-politico-economic, environmental, and ontological foundations for all the living and the non-living beings of this planet. The series is directed by the University of Tokyo Global Studies Initiative (GSI).