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Special Issue article: Using 3D pollen models and participatory palaeoecology to connect people with intangible paleoenvironmental records.

Dear readers, I am pleased to greet you on the pages of our journal! This time, the editorial board dedicates a special issue to women and men discussing women's issues from a legal perspective. This is to support women's research, to provide a platform for colleagues to speak out, and to show what can be achieved in science and law. My colleagues from different countries are presenting their research in different areas of law on the most challenging issues.I confess that until now I had not thought about how many women can advance the legal profession. Sure, I see lawyers on a daily basis, but it didn't become the focus of my attention. Now that I have done some research, I can say that I have a sense of parity between women and men in the legal profession, thanks to my employer. The study of the issues of the correlation between the quantitative representation of women and men in the legal profession, as well as the peculiarities of their cultural competences, is not only of keen interest to representatives of the legal profession butalso stems from general questions about the gender situation in various fields of human activity.Vivian López Núñez, one of the authors of this special issue, shows that in Paraguay, the judicial system is dominated by men. In Russia, the situation is somewhat different. According to judicial statistics, the proportion of women in the Russian judiciary is 66%.1Moreover, today the Supreme Court is headed by a woman,Irina Podnosova. Women predominate among notaries in Russia. More than 80 per cent of Russian notaries are women.2Women also dominate legal education. According to 2021 data, more women than men are involved in the scientific and educational spheresin the Russian Federation. Overall, in higher education institutions, more than 80% of women are involved in education and pedagogical sciences. While in the humanities, the share of women is more than 65%3.The unequal representation of men and women in the legal profession is due to various factors, primarily historical, economic and socio-cultural reasons. Although legal work has long been the prerogative of men, the granting of full rights to women has enabled them to become involved in legal work.For example, Soviet Russia was one of the first countries to legalize gender equality in the early 20th century. After the October Revolution of 1917, women had access to vocational education, jobs, legal abortion and easy divorce. In the 1990s,Russia also paid a lot of attention to this issue.4Of course, there is always room for improvement. Summarizing foreign and Russian experience, N. Shvedova notes, “social practice has revealed the limited, illusory nature of equality and has come into conflict with life itself. The idea of gender equality has not become an organic part of either the culture of society, human rights, or real state policy.”5Magdalena Łągiewska's remark that “currently, there is a global stereotype on arbitrators such as ‘male, pale and stale’”was very interesting. As far as I can tell, there has been no specific research on how women and men make judgments as judges. This suggests that the design of e-judge algorithms should not take into account how much softer or harsher a judgment should be, as it might seem at first glance. Freeing the AI in court from gender-specific features offers a chance to get a completely impartial judgement in strict accordance with the law.This discussion is actively initiated by William Manga Mokofe, who, in an article in this special issue, shows the importance of addressing gender disparities and promoting inclusivity in the design and implementation of legal and technological systems. My personal experience at the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as academic research, shows that the number of trained female legal professionals is growing faster than that of male lawyers. The growing supply of lawyers, and consequently, the face of the legal profession,is gradually changing.This allows us to lead projects related to digital jurisprudence (Gergana Varbanova, Elizaveta Zainutdinova), global investment projects (Anna Belitskaya, Yulia Kharitonova), and criminal law assessments in the area of illegal trafficking and the use of weapons (Elona Abasalieva). I thank our authors for supporting the editorial call and sharing their relevant research. I wish our readers a productive and inspiring reading experience, and I look forward to new ideas! Best Wishes,Yulia Kharitonova, LL.D.

ABSTRACT The special issue ‘Participatory approaches in researching multilingualism: Democratisation and social impact’ brings together seven contributions and a discussion paper considering how language studies and participation are intertwined in doing ethnography that seeks social impact and the democratisation of research. These approaches encompass citizen science, ethnographic monitoring, participatory action research, collaborative research, and participatory sociolinguistics, all highlighting the need for the re-interpretation of hierarchical relations through inviting non-linguists into the study of multilingualism. In this introductory article, we discuss three aspects of participation: (1) collaboration with participants from diverse backgrounds, (2) responsibility and the dismantling of hierarchies in research, and (3) creating shared knowledge about multilingualism. These issues are described in relation to the authors' own positionalities and the collaborative assembling of this special issue, pointing out that democratisation could also be reflected in our narrowly defined academic work. We introduce the articles in the special issue along the lines of these three themes, showing the interrelatedness of collaboration, of the different participants' responsibilities, and of knowledge that transcends academia.

This special issue was inspired by a conference held in Membertou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the fall of 2023. The conference, Muiwatmnej Etuaptmumk: “Two-Eyed Seeing From Vision to Action,” was organized by the Bras d’Or Lakes Collaborative Environmental Planning Initiative (CEPI) and its secretariat Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR). The conference’s primary motivation was to honour and celebrate the work and words of Dr. Albert Marshall and his late wife, Dr. Murdena Marshall, who were both Elders in Eskasoni, as well as to celebrate their friend and collaborator Dr. Cheryl Bartlett. Being guided by the principles of Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing was one of the eight lessons in their collaborative co-learning journey (Bartlett et al., 2012).1 The presentations delivered at the conference, and the articles in this special issue, demonstrate this lesson’s appeal.

Abstract Prefacing a series of articles in the Special Issue examining the imperial and colonial dimensions of Anglo-German relations prior to and during the First World War, this article examines how outdated understandings of Anglo-German relations are currently influencing political scientists who are seeking a historical basis for their theoretical models of twenty-first-century geopolitics. It looks at how Paul Kennedy’s understanding of an ostensible Anglo-German antagonism has made its way into Graham Allison’s recent theory of the ‘Thucydides trap’ and argues that improving the quality of contemporary international relations might well rely upon improving our communication of paradigm changes in German historiography.

This special issue introduction provides a contextual summary of Scottish kingship and the development of the historiography of royal culture during the reigns of the Stewart/Stuart dynasty, before summarising the articles in the special issue. These summaries are framed and structured by the methodological approaches to material culture evidence embraced by the contributing authors, who include academics, archivists and museum professionals. Despite persistent popular perceptions of Scotland as a cultural backwater in the pre-modern period, the contributions outlined in the introduction demonstrate, even with limited surviving artefacts of cultural heritage for this long-lived dynasty, the depth and complexities of the royal material legacy of Scotland’s pre-modern rulers. In doing so, each contribution enriches our understanding of the ways in which material world was used by and shaped the interactions, whether positive or negative, between monarchs and the populous over which they ruled.

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This afterword considers the thematic issue 'The Affective Politics of Music in Latin America,' published by the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. I begin by questioning the frame of Latin America as space of inquiry for understanding the relationship between music, politics, and affect. I ask if this such a continental geography provides a coherent space for comparable case studies, and I discuss the genealogy of the construction of Latin America as a particularly affective territory. After discussing the issue's articles in relation to their primarily national frames, I place the issue within a larger affective turn in Latin American studies and festive studies. I then discuss my forthcoming book project on Brazilian music in Portugal, which, by theorizing 'postcolonial intimacy,' seeks to expand affect theory in relation to music and politics beyond national frames. Lastly, I consider the import of affect theory to Latin American musicians themselves, arguing that the fundamental implication of affect theory, that feeling has an impact, are obvious to musicians, who have always self-consciously used music's affects for political purposes.

The articles in this thematic issue are the product of research on ‘(Re)Constructing Religioscapes as Competing Territorial Claims in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina,’ funded by the National Science Foundation (USA). The project was developed from earlier comparative and interdisciplinary research that had led to the development of a model of ‘Antagonistic Tolerance’ (AT) to understand relations over multiple generations between members of religiously-based heritage communities who lived intermingled but rarely intermarrying (Hayden et al., 2016).

Intersectionality theory and research have offered some of the most profound contemporary breakthroughs in studying inequality and crime. Recognition of the need to consider how intersecting inequalities shape opportunities and constraints in navigating the social world has a long history rooted in Black feminist activism. Within academia, the concept of intersectionality has traveled from its source disciplines to a wide variety of disciplines, has incorporated a vast array of inequalities beyond race, class, and gender, and has been applied to a variety of substantive topics using diverse research methods. Within criminology, we are witnessing an increased focus on studying a diversity of intersecting marginalities and how they relate to a variety of criminological outcomes. The articles in this special issue are illustrative of the current state of intersectionality research in criminology, focusing on a vast array of inequalities and using a variety of research methods to show how a diversity of inequalities intersect to influence offending, victimization, and social control experiences. The articles individually and as a whole effectively deal with intersectionality’s core themes: social inequality, power, relationality, complexity, and social justice. In doing so, the articles convey the utility of adopting an intersectional framework for unpacking experiences with gendered victimization, social control, and offending among multiply marginalized girls and women.

Given the chronic and multi-faceted challenges of marine aquaculture, there is growing interest in land-based aquaculture supported by high-capacity saltwater wells. These wells can theoretically provide a stable, high-quality source of saline groundwater for aquaculture tanks. In this Issue Article, I focus on saltwater wells installed in the salt wedges of coastal aquifers and argue that these wells could benefit or harm local homeowners or municipalities relying on nearby freshwater wells. More research in the fields of hydrogeophysics and physical and contaminant hydrogeology is critically needed to better understand how high-capacity saltwater wells may impact coastal aquifers and groundwater-dependent communities. Such work is crucial for informing the development of scientifically based regulations for the management of these wells and related aquaculture operations. Appropriate regulations would protect coastal communities, ecosystems, and industrial operators from potentially negative impacts of saltwater wells and would help to maximize their potential benefits.

This Introduction to the special issue ‘Collective Action in Crisis?’ explores two key themes. First, it seeks to deepen understanding of how collective action can be organized in crises, connecting established knowledge in the field with new insights from the articles of this special issue. Second, the question mark in our guiding theme invites critical reflection on whether the theories we use to understand collective action are themselves in crisis. Through this theme, we propose both a theoretical exploration and an empirical agenda, recognizing that crises amplify foundational concerns in organization studies around problems of collective action. We begin by ‘zooming out’ to provide an overview of foundational theoretical approaches to collective action during crises. Then, we ‘zoom in’ and foreground the specific value of middle-range theories and core concepts from organization and management studies. Our aim is to offer conceptual resources for scholars and practitioners tackling the critical task of organizing collective action in crises.

This epilogue reflects on the collective contributions of the articles in this special issue, which interrogate critical facets of educational equity in urban contexts across the southern United States. Together, the studies illuminate both persistent structural challenges and emergent, promising practices that shape the educational experiences of students of color. By centering teacher diversity, lived experience, and systemic barriers, the research offers a comprehensive, top-down analysis of urban education and proposes pathways for advancing equity through transformative policy and practice.

Cell Metabolism 20th anniversary Voices: Part 3 of 3.

Medication reference tables for neurologists: A focus on psychotropic medications in epilepsy.

ABSTRACTThe 2024 joint meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of Work took the theme of “Work and the Data Economy.” The articles in this special issue, first presented at the meeting, explore the datafication of ethnographic settings not conventionally associated with high‐tech or knowledge work. In this introduction, we argue that datafication is a key technology of abstraction that aggregates and transforms the contextual particularities of the world into countable, computationally tractable representations. These transformations are often explicitly or implicitly contemptuous of the work practices they abstract from. Reading the issue through the themes of abstraction and contempt, we highlight the emerging shifts in the organization, valuation, and control of labor that the articles collectively reveal.

Over the past decades, numerical and mathematical cognition has transformed from a niche research area into a thriving global field, with contributions spanning diverse populations, methodologies, and theoretical approaches. The 13 articles in this special issue highlight the breadth and depth of contemporary research, addressing topics such as the development of early numeracy skills, the interplay between mathematical and reading processes, the cognitive mechanisms supporting arithmetic and algebra, and the role of visuospatial thinking in expert mathematical reasoning. The contributions exemplify methodological innovation, from longitudinal studies and psychometric evaluations to interdisciplinary theoretical models that integrate numerical and linguistic frameworks. Together, they collectively advance theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary perspectives. This introduction synthesizes the contributions, demonstrating how they collectively inspire future directions for research on numerical and mathematical cognition. We discuss the broader implications of the work while also contextualizing its development within its historical ties to Canadian experimental psychology and the foundational work of pioneers such as the late Jamie I. D. Campbell, in memory of whom this special issue was conceived. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Why is resistance leadership a vital topic for our field? In the editorial for this special issue, the editors make the case for studying resistance leadership as conceptually important, empirically urgent and practically essential. The article proceeds in two stages. First, the authors offer conceptual and empirical grounding, claiming a foundational status for resistance in the genesis and development of leadership theory and practice. Having provided a definition of resistance leadership that accounts for its material, discursive and affective richness, the authors consider the empirical importance of resistance leadership research. Drawing on the notion of brutalism offered by political theorist Achille Mbembe, the authors survey the devastating and technologically intensified accumulation of violence, misogyny and racism that has gripped our world, highlighting the resistance leadership dynamics at work. Second, a resistance leadership compass is offered to guide future research. The compass plots the multiple ways in which resistance leadership may manifest: as more or less geographically dispersed, tilted towards reforming or transforming, and temporally bounded or expansive. From this basis, four tentative modes of resistance leadership are posited, drawing and expanding upon the articles in the special issue, while also offering examples from practice and existing research. These modes, which may be interrogated and adapted through further research, are: ‘appropriating resistance leadership’; ‘strengthening resistance leadership’; ‘progressing resistance leadership’; and ‘revolutionising resistance leadership’.

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