This article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on compulsive consumption by integrating psychoanalytic theory with behavioural economics. Building on Freudian concepts of repression and sublimation, we develop a theoretical model in which unresolved psychological conflict generates inner tension, leading individuals to seek relief through substitute forms of consumption. Empirical support is drawn from a structured survey of 264 French adults with binge-eating behaviour. Findings indicate that emotional triggers such as anxiety, guilt, and shame are closely linked to harmful consumption patterns, particularly when repression mechanisms fail. The model formalises the interplay between unconscious drives, consumption choices, and economic constraints, offering a new lens for understanding self-regulation failure. By bridging economics, psychology, and clinical theory, this study contributes to current debates on mental health, consumer behaviour, and behavioural policy. It provides conceptual tools for scholars and practitioners seeking to address the psychological dimensions of harmful consumption and its broader societal impacts. • Develops a psychoeconomic model of compulsive consumption. • Integrates Freudian repression with economic decision-making theory. • Formalises psychological tension as a driver of substitution in consumption. • Explains harmful overconsumption under internal and budget constraints. • Provides survey evidence linking emotional triggers to binge-eating behaviour.

Can carbon insetting deliver credible sustainability outcomes in forest-risk supply chains? A critical perspective from soy and cattle production in Argentina’s Gran Chaco

Armed conflicts disrupt mobility in multiple ways, displacing millions while immobilizing others. The 2022 Russian war in Ukraine reveals the limits of migration frameworks that dichotomize movement and stasis. Drawing on nine gender-homogeneous focus groups with Ukrainians who stayed, were internally displaced, or sought refuge in Germany (March–May 2025), this study examines how structural conditions, emotions, and moral reasoning intersect in wartime decision-making. The analysis identifies diverse trajectories of (im)mobility—ranging from involuntary mobility to voluntary immobility and temporary return—as lived responses within a shared moral and structural field. Similar determinants, such as danger, dependents, and attachment to home, produce contrasting outcomes depending on how individuals interpret duty, care, and risk. This article contributes to current debates on wartime (im)mobilities and migration decision-making by showing that decisions to move, stay, or return in wartime Ukraine are not only structured by legal restrictions, danger, and resources, but also shaped by moral responsibility, affect, and gendered interpretations of care.

ABSTRACT What is the relationship between pleasure and desire? While some philosophers reduce pleasure to desire, this paper explores the prospects for a hedonic theory of desire, which reduces desire to pleasure instead. I argue that desiring that p is best analyzed not as a disposition to feel pleased that p when you believe that p , but rather as a disposition to feel pleasure in what you imagine when you imagine that p . I give three arguments for this hedonic theory of desire, defend it against objections, and consider its broader theoretical implications for current debates in ethics and philosophy of mind.

Large language models (LLMs) have disrupted higher education, prompting a wave of scholarship on generative AI in the Political Science classroom. This emerging literature largely converges in arguing that educators should incorporate those tools into instruction and assessment. In this article, I challenge this view. I first provide a typology of current arguments for incorporating LLMs, showing that those rest on the notion that the proliferation of AI is inevitable, inescapable, and irreversible. Given theoretical frameworks beyond technological determinism within Political Science, I argue that the call to integrate AI into the classroom not only lags behind insights of our own discipline, but also risks undermining its primary learning objectives. Instead, I suggest we need to bring politics back into the debate, which not only recovers educators’ agency but also refocuses it on the core interest of a Political Science degree—the study of politics, orders, and power.

ABSTRACT In this paper, we delve into the multifaceted process of designing inclusive curricula in post-secondary education for students with intellectual disabilities, using a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach. We begin by conceptualising an inclusive curriculum, discussing the theoretical foundations and key principles that underpin this approach. Following this, we explore the diversity of curricula in post-secondary education, with a specific focus on Ireland’s perspective, highlighting the unique challenges and opportunities faced by Irish institutions. We then examine the UDL-based inclusive curriculum within an inclusive programme for students with intellectual disabilities in an Irish higher education institution, providing a detailed analysis of how UDL principles are implemented to cater to diverse learning needs. The paper then addresses curriculum design from methodological perspectives, discussing various strategies and frameworks that can be employed to create effective and inclusive educational environments. Finally, we review examples of inclusive curriculum implementations, illustrating the practical applications and outcomes of UDL-based curriculum design in enhancing educational accessibility and quality for all students. This paper offers a contribution to the current debate around curriculum for students with intellectual disabilities through the examples of UDL-based implementations that show inclusive teaching and learning practices in the post-secondary education context.

ABSTRACT This essay revisits the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) as a significant framework in global media history. Emerging in the 1970s from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and UNESCO, NWICO sought to address structural inequalities in news flows, communication infrastructure, and global representation between the Global North and the Global South. Although the initiative declined politically in the 1980s, its call for communication justice has regained urgency amid data colonialism, platform imperialism and artificial intelligence. This essay reframes NWICO not as a failed policy experiment but as an incomplete framework for understanding contemporary communication inequalities. It makes three main points: first, that NWICO was a systemic critique of Cold War communication models; second, that its emphasis on control over communication resources anticipates current struggles over data, platforms, and algorithm governance; and third, that NWICO provides a guiding basis for reconsidering communication justice in the digital age. By linking historical arguments about media imperialism and communication sovereignty to current debates on digital infrastructure, data governance, and AI systems, the essay shows that inequalities persist and evolve. It concludes that revisiting NWICO is essential for understanding contemporary media power and envisioning more democratic global communication.

An examination of the incorporation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in anticipatory action (AA) reveals the latter's potential to strengthen disaster response by addressing pre-existing inequalities and marginalised needs. Despite the gendered dimensions of disasters being well evidenced, SRHR and other gendered needs remain overlooked in AA programming, exacerbating the risks to women, girls, and intersectionally marginalised groups with high pre-existing vulnerability. This paper investigates the challenges to and opportunities for including SRHR in AA, using SRHR as a lens to investigate the possibilities for more inclusive and effective AA programmes. AA enables a more transformative approach to humanitarian aid, with time for early planning, gender analyses, local community engagement, and improved nexus linkages to the longer-term development of healthcare services, corresponding to current debates in the humanitarian sector. Utilising these attributes of AA facilitates a humanitarian response which can better meet vulnerable groups' needs in fragile contexts, helping to mitigate the long-term repercussions of the 'double disaster' of gendered impacts.

ABSTRACT The present special issue is devoted to diversifying the canon of economic thought. We believe that, faced with growing global material inequality and social instability, it is urgent to turn to neglected economic thinkers, as well as to authors who – while otherwise well-known – are not usually read for their economic proposals. This special issue thus assembles historical investigations that aim at widening the canon of economic thought and derive surprisingly important insights for current debates from the historical texts they are discussing. The nineteenth-century authors discussed in this volume are, thus, deliberately varied: some of the contributions bring the economic theories of Fichte, Hegel or Mill into focus and situate them vis-à-vis each other, bringing to the fore and discussing, in their otherwise well-known theories, a variety of unconventional and little-known economic ideals. Other contributions lift up voices that were influential in their time, but that are not as frequently heard today: focusing on thinkers such as Germaine de Staël, Johann Benjamin Erhard, Clara Zetkin, Georg Simmel and Richard Henry Tawney, these contributions, once again, bring unconventional economic ideals into the discussion. But they also illustrate the persistently complex interrelationships among feminism, anti-racism and the movement for economic justice.

The present investigation adopts a correlational approach to explore the association between measurable handwriting characteristics and personality traits based on the Five-Factor Model. A sample of 140 college students from different colleges in Bangalore, India, will participate in the study.The central aim of this research is to determine whether objectively identified handwriting features demonstrate consistent relationships with personality dimensions assessed using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), thereby empirically examining selected assumptions within graphological theory. The handwriting variables examined in this study are based on principles outlined in The Romantic Secrets Hidden in Our Handwriting by Paula Roberts. Data collection will involve obtaining completed NEO-FFI questionnaires along with samples of participants’ natural handwriting. These handwriting samples will be evaluated through a systematic and standardized scoring framework to identify specific indicators, including baseline movement reflecting introversion or extroversion; the relative emphasis on ideals, emotions, and material concerns; degree of interpersonal attachment; emotional steadiness versus fluctuation; tendencies toward disclosure or concealment; and preference for analytical or intuitive cognitive processing. Correlation techniques were used to ascertain the connections between the identified handwriting characteristics and the five fundamental personality dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to new experiences, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.The results showed that informative content of handwriting and personality correlations were weak and non-significant in the vast majority. However, the Openness to Experience had statistically different negative correlation with the H7 handwriting dimension (r = -.284, p <.01). Overall, the evidence presents only a few empirical findings on the existence of predictable correlations between the indicators of handwriting and the Big Five personality traits. The study advances the current academic debate of scientific validity of graphology and the need to conduct studies with more rigorous methodologies and larger sample responses. The study aims to improve the empirical and methodological validity of graphological research by using handwritten analysis, in combination with a standardized personality test instrument.

There is a current debate on how time and space are represented in the brain, with some researchers advocating the view that time and space are represented within a generalized magnitude system and others arguing that temporal representations are based on spatial representations. The observation of asymmetric space-time interference, with time perception being more influenced by space than vice versa, has often been interpreted as reflecting a hierarchical representational structure. Here we explore how the factor of speed, which is inherent in many experiments on space-time interference (e.g., growing lines, moving dots), can contribute to the observed asymmetry. This idea is tested in two experiments, directly comparing duration and length judgments for growing and static lines (Experiment 1) and for growing and shrinking lines (Experiment 2). Experiment 1 demonstrates that the introduction of speed generally increases space-time interference, and that this increase is especially pronounced for the space-on-time effect, leading to stronger asymmetry. Moreover, Experiment 2 shows that, when the correlation between line length and speed is reversed (i.e., shorter lengths are coupled with higher stimulus speed), the space-on-time effect reverses as well. We conclude that the observed asymmetric space-time interference in experiments using dynamic stimuli is primarily based on the processing of speed and does not constitute evidence for the idea of a hierarchical representational structure of space and time.

Cognitive and emotional dynamics of artificial intelligence-assisted English learning: A mixed-methods study in a dual instructional context.

There is a vacuum in the risk of architectural changes in critical systems because macro-architectural governance in AI-based software development is frequently ignored in current scholarly debate. The purpose of this study is to assess how well the Visualize, Integrate, Build, Execute (VIBE) architecture addresses the stability-speed contradiction in SaaS development. This study triangulated data from 465 automated CI/CD pipeline logs, 124 AI instruction tactic documentation records, and 42 test cases using comparative performance analysis and process tracking using an explanatory mixed-methods case study methodology on a stock market analytics platform. The study's key conclusions show a 50% boost in development efficiency, reducing a 60-day cycle to 30 days while preserving system reliability with an average latency of 1.2 seconds and a 99.9 percent availability rate. Specialist synergy was identified where humans became the primary cognitive players in architectural design at 90 percent, and AI as the executor of basic syntax at 85 percent. The research concludes that the architectural anchoring mechanism by humans is crucial for mitigating the risks of non-deterministic AI outputs. Theoretically, this study introduces the concept of human-AI cognitive alignment, while practically providing a validated roadmap for modernization of sensitive infrastructure such as Electronic Medical Records.

Abstract The current debate on the rule of law in the EU is focused on Member States’ rule of law observance within their national systems and the EU’s possibilities to foster it. Connected to this, the need for the effectiveness of EU law is stressed and the rule of law is mingled with EU law primacy. That focus’s conceptual underpinnings have considerable short-comings. In particular, they create fallacies with regard to the joint exercise of public power by the EU and Member States and fail to put individuals’ protection from public power’s misuse at the heart of the rule of law. In response to that, this Article (re)introduces rule of law’s understanding as a common individual-centred principle. It lays the conceptual and legal foundations and illustrates the joint obligation it creates with regard to collisions of EU and national law and to blurred lines of responsibility within cooperative administration. In contrast to an effectiveness-driven, functionalist and self-referential understanding, a common individual-centred principle of the rule of law functions as an individual-centred counterbalance to the joint exercise of public power within the EU. Without claiming a conclusive conceptualisation of the rule of law, these neglected facets are brought to the fore.

The paper explores the subtle nature of marginality that the women go through in the plays of choice of Mahesh Dattani, in which the intersections of gender, identity, and socio-cultural constraints in modern Indian society have been prefigured. The dramaturgy by Dattani challenges the micro-level, but widespread forms of exclusion that exist within family and social systems and that especially impact women who must deal with multiple identities in their personalities formed by patriarchy, tradition, and modernity. The study examines the placement of female characters in the peripheral space that can be visible and invisible, and the voice of the female characters as resistance, negotiation, and sometimes silence through a close text analysis of select plays. Although the current literature has already discussed the role that Dattani played in drawing attention to the gender and social issues, this paper will elaborate on that by grounding female marginality on a wider critical paradigm that includes the issues of agency, performativity, and cultural conditioning. Reconsidering the experienced realities of women characters in the plays of Dattani, the paper will argue that marginality is not just an external condition but also internalised and reproduced in the relationships within or among family members. The paper, therefore, adds to the current debates concerning the Indian English drama by providing a fine interpretation of the gendered marginalisation in the theatrical world of Dattani.

ABSTRACT Moral certainty is a growing research area in philosophy with implications for current debates on hinge epistemology, moral change and deep moral disagreements. Despite several distinctive lines of disagreement, two assumptions are shared in the current discussion of moral certainty. The first is the acknowledgement of Wittgenstein's work On Certainty as the main source of inspiration. The second is the understanding that Wittgenstein's later writings do not feature any work on the topic of moral certainty. In this article, we challenge the latter standard assumption. We show that Wittgenstein did consider examples of moral certainty and can also be said to have a conception of moral certainty in his later writings. This paves the way for future scholars to turn to Wittgenstein's writings not only as a source of inspiration for work on moral certainty, but also as a direct source of insight into this specific topic.

ABSTRACT The article studies the entangled representations of undocumented Mexican border-crossing and migrant activism in recent works of Mexican American graphic fiction. These works are rooted in a long cultural tradition of artivism, that is, using art as a vehicle of political activism. The strong appeal of graphic narratives among broad audiences endows works of Mexican American graphic fiction with particular potential for artistic interventions in public discourses on undocumented migration and migrant rights. This article analyses how Duncan Tonatiuh’s graphic novel for children Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight (2018) and Hector Rodriguez’s superhero comic series El Peso Hero (2011-) support the undocumented and their civil and labour rights within the current debates about irregular migration from Latin America to the United States. It specifically demonstrates how these narratives draw on aspects of Mexican and American visual and narrative cultures to inform audiences about undocumented migration, empower migrants, and criticise their exploitation on both sides of the border.

ABSTRACT In intersemiotic translations, we may speak of a “hypertextuality” among different discourses that raise questions regarding “translatability” and foreground the multifaceted transcultural connection between the source texts and target texts, which is affected by the translator’s intercultural competence. Such intercultural competence can be observed in Okan Bayülgen’s Richard, a translation and appropriation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Presenting and deconstructing ideas on medieval thoughts on the body, current debates on social and personal trauma, racism, ethics, and the function of theatre, Bayülgen does not merely translate Shakespeare’s Richard III into Turkish but translates it to twenty-first-century socio-political topics like the migration crisis and the elusiveness of defining what is evil in today’s post-truth period from a Turkish intellectual point-of-view. Thus, this essay aims to examine intersemiotic translations, the intersections of translation and critical race theory, and narrative equivalence to illustrate how Bayülgen’s Richard as an intersemiotic translation and appropriation recontextualises Shakespeare’s historically and culturally distant Richard III and makes it accessible to twenty-first-century Turkish audiences.

Against the background of a renewed housing crisis, a debate on the role and functioning of social housing has been sparked. To provide a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of social housing provision, the paper explores the case of Vienna and approaches the issue on the level of social housing organizations. Although Vienna is often portrayed as a prime example of successful social housing provision, current debates lack a nuanced picture of the configuration of the sector and the organizations responsible for providing social housing. More specifically, we explore how the policy instrument of ‘developer competitions’ (DCs), through which public land is allocated to developers for the construction of subsidized housing, secures high housing qualities by fostering collaboration between limited-profit housing associations (LPHAs). By examining existing relationships between housing organizations, we uncover how these contribute to successful social housing provision. Employing a mixed-methods research design, that combines social network analysis with qualitative interviews, findings reveal the way in which social relations between LPHAs contribute to the pooling of resources at the organizational level, as well as knowledge-sharing and coherence at the sector level. This enables to secure the successful provision of social housing and the continuation of a stable sector.

Statues of Confederate figures represent only a small portion of the memorial sites under reconsideration in the United States, but much of the political debate about American monuments in recent years has focused on arguments about the motives behind their potential removal, renaming, or modification. Although the contested removal of Confederate statues across the United States has spurred significant public discourse, much work remains to assess the ways in which a changing monumental landscape shapes American political development. This article reviews the evolution of monument controversies, monument protection laws, and relevant scholarship, focusing on the importance of the politics of memory to situate current debates in a long history of political battles over how the American past should be remembered. We discuss the ways in which monument conflicts reflect tensions over American identity and point out some of the most important recurring problems in American monument protection laws.