The villain of the story, then, is arbitrary power and its hero is tempered power. Starting there and then asking where such problems are to be found, and what might be relevant to dealing with them, has significant implications for where we should look both for problem-makers and for problem-solvers. As for makers, Chapter 7 argues that if arbitrary power is as obnoxious as I claim, and tempered power such a valuable ideal to pursue, then any serious attempt to approach the goal of the rule of law cannot assume, as is commonly done, that its targets are just governments and the agencies of states. The need to temper ways power is exercised must be considered in relation to a much larger and more complex force field than that of state power, since arbitrary exercise of power is likely to arise in many places, and so too will reasons to want it tempered. So, we should have in mind much more than the usual rule of law suspects and concern ourselves more broadly with people and entities able to access power substantial enough that its arbitrary use is liable to harm. That will extend to many places we like to call ‘private’ but whose effects are often palpably public.

When moving from one ECEC service to another, collaborations should include appropriate staff in the new ECEC service where possible. In instances where children are transitioning into preschool from another ECEC service or to a school setting, collaboration with future educators and other staff in the educational context will be critical to support the child and family throughout. Deciding on the school a child will attend can be notably difficult when there are disabilities, developmental delays or neurodivergence, so this chapter will also explore the family’s right to choose, and how ECEC services can both advocate for the child but also work to empower families to advocate for their child’s rights. In addition, this chapter will provide some practical strategies to support children to transition out of the ECEC service and into new settings in a more seamless and integrated way.

This final and concluding chapter highlights the main points discussed in the book and explains the importance that Early German Romanticism can have in the ecological and environmental-philosophical debate today.

This chapter goes beyond a descriptive view of crime hot spots to explore how hot spots and non-hot spots vary within and across communities. Using the characteristics we focused on in Chapter 2, we ask whether the extent to which hot spots and non-hot spots differ depends on the type of community they are nested within. We also examine to what extent hot spot streets have similar characteristics across the city, or whether hot spots look different depending on the community they are nested within. We find that hot spots differ on most characteristics from streets with little crime regardless of the type of community they are nested in (as indicated by levels of concentrated disadvantage). At the same time, community context does matter in terms of understanding characteristics such as structural measures of social disorganization and disorder. Even so, we find that hot spots of crime have similarly low levels of informal social control irrespective of the communities in which they are nested.”

In today’s evolving educational landscape, collaboration and networking are essential for creating an inclusive and engaging learning environment. This chapter invites you to explore how building strong connections with colleagues, your school community, and wider networks can enhance your teaching and professional growth. By collaborating proactively, you can co-develop plans, adapt strategies, assess student progress, and draw on the strengths of others.

This chapter asserts that J. M. Coetzee’s ostensibly surprising turn to questions of religion in “The Jesus Novels” should have been anticipated from his trajectory of concerns since the novels of the late 1990s. Through a genetic reading of Disgrace that extensively uses Coetzee’s notebooks and drafts for the novel, I show how this work posits the reality of souls, human and nonhuman, and imagines how that reality can reorient the self away from abusive uses of others and toward practices of care. This reading of Disgrace traces how Coetzee dismantles previous forms of Western perception through an anti-epiphany, opening the way for belief in souls to produce a better form of life and seeing others. The chapter closes by considering how the Jesus novels further develop the life of spiritual contemplation that Coetzee’s late style explores.

Climate change threatens terrestrial and aquatic species, worsened by habitat encroachments. Greater pressures on ecosystems, and renewable-energy infrastructure needs, require environmental impact assessments, still weak in the region. Climate threats compel certifications for sustainable cultivation, but certifications often disadvantage cultivators unable to qualify. The conservation impulse spawns protected reserves, threatening vulnerable people unprotected by benefit sharing. “Customary law communities” in some countries limit destructive land-use changes, and have progressed in regaining natural-resource rights, but migration, cultivation bans, and state manipulations threaten their recognition. Climate-induced pest proliferation requires pesticides, but ecosystem and health hazards of chemical pesticides call for biopesticides. Because of regional pest variations, domestic biopesticide production is promising. Smallholder adaptation can be enhanced through payments for environmental services preventing environmental degradation or enhancing the ecosystem. Effective ecosystem protection and restoration can also be enhanced through co-management arrangements.

“Singers (1941–1982)” examines Argentine popular songs about the Falklands/Malvinas Islands through a systematic analysis of previously unexplored sources: the musical works registry of the Argentine Society of Authors and Composers (SADAIC) from its foundation until 1982. While has focused largely on songs produced after the war, this chapter turns to compositions written before 1982, when military action remained an imagined possibility rather than an immediate reality. Reading song lyrics as historical sources, the chapter shows how popular music articulated an “emotional community” that, through diverse tones and registers reinforced the belief that “the Malvinas were, are, and will be Argentine.” Expressed through an art form accessible to broad audiences beyond intellectual or economic elites, these songs projected a forward-looking vision of sovereignty reather than a retrospective memory of loss. The chapter argues that this repertoire sustained a latent fantasy of recovery helping to explain the widespread popular support for the 1982 invasion, despite the military regime’s deep economic and political crises.