This chapter addresses the book’s central themes by presenting practical strategies to strengthen quality of life in Indigenous communities. Drawing on psychology, community health, Indigenous governance, and urban planning, it emphasises the importance of strong connections to Country in supporting wellbeing and healing from historical dislocation and intergenerational trauma. Using the Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd. (NYFL) Strategic Plan as a case study, the chapter demonstrates how Indigenous leadership and decision-making are vital to community-driven change. It shows how NYFL can apply culturally grounded approaches from this book to enhance local liveability. Innovative data-sovereignty partnerships and ‘two-way’ knowledge frameworks illustrate the potential of integrating Indigenous and Western perspectives. Together, these strategies support communities to reclaim place, culture, and Country. The chapter ultimately provides actionable pathways for fostering resilience and sustainable wellbeing, reinforcing the book’s overarching purpose of bridging worldviews to create more liveable and inclusive futures.

This chapter introduces readers to the field of fashion and literature and explains how fashion has functioned as an influential but underrecognized concept and force in literary studies. It identifies key questions and concerns that have fueled work on fashion and literature for decades, including temporality, subjectivity, materiality, labor, genre, and style, and it locates the field at the intersection of literary studies, fashion studies, and material culture studies. The introduction also highlights the role that work on gender and sexuality, often in relation to race and colonialism, has played in research on fashion and literature, as well as the importance of women’s labor as a topic and factor in the field. It explains the organization of the volume, highlighting how various chapters address broader debates and point to emerging directions for scholarship.

How do words change their meaning? This chapter examines semantic change, change in meaning. It reveals the various ways in which words change their meanings and explains what is behind each kind of change, with telling examples from the history of English.

Emotion is framed as a hidden driver of human behavior that AI increasingly seeks to detect and interpret. The chapter draws parallels from Avicenna’s early recognition of psychosomatic illness to today’s multimodal emotion AI, which integrates facial, vocal, physiological, and gestural data. It explains psychological frameworks like valence–arousal–control and reviews applications in healthcare, education, and consumer research. The authors stress that while AI can recognize signals of emotion, true comprehension and emotional intuition remains uniquely human. The chapter underscores cultural and contextual complexity, raising ethical considerations around empathy, bias, and emotional data privacy.

This chapter introduces the main argument and themes of the book, and positions it within earlier and existing scholarship on archaic and classical Greek literature, religion and philosophy. Particular points of focus include the relationship between Greek tragedy, ritual and theology, and influential mid-twentieth-century research on Sophocles (the ’classics’ of Sophoclean scholarship). The chapter also discusses ancient biographical traditions surrounding Sophocles’ religiosity and piety.

This chapter is dedicated to borrowed words. Its mission is to explain how and why languages borrow words from other languages and how loanwords are dealt with. It is organized around the loans in English from particular languages, presented in such a way that the contents of the loanwords dealt with reveal the stories of the language contacts that led to the borrowings.

This chapter examines the compound republic established by the U.S. Constitution, emphasizing its innovative balance of national and state powers. Unlike the Articles of Confederation’s league of states, the Constitution was ratified by the people, not state legislatures, and thereby creates a national government with direct authority over individuals, but only within its assigned sphere. This “new science of politics,” as Hamilton termed it, departs from Montesquieu’s view that republics suit only small territories, enabling a robust union capable of addressing external threats and internal defects such as the ineffective taxation and defense under the Articles. Madison’s writings in The Federalist highlight the Constitution’s blend of national and federal elements, ensuring legitimacy through popular sovereignty while preserving state autonomy in areas outside the enumerated powers. The chapter explores the Webster-Hayne Debate and Jackson’s response to South Carolina’s tariff nullification to refute secession and nullification and reaffirm the Constitution’s supremacy, while acknowledging states’ roles in “interposition,” as in the 1798 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, to alert citizens to potential federal overreach.

The Outlook argues that whatever the participant or mediatory statuses of machines may be in future research with large and complex datasets, understanding their uses and impacts at the granularity of human interaction and social accountability will be essential for attempts to integrate human and machine learning from data. It highlights the uses of the two notions of accountability addressed in this book, identifies a spectrum of natural scientists’ social inquiries that hints at their normative orientations, and argues for the use of ethnography as a reminder of human agency and responsibility.

When it was founded in 1819, Singapore represented the farthest reach of British imperial authority, and in 1824, the British and Dutch conspired to create a unique kind of border, lacing its way through maritime space, and allotting cartographic spheres to both parties. The major political effect of this division was the dismemberment of the Johor maritime empire. Its core, the Riau-Lingga Archipelago, became a laxly administered buffer zone for Dutch Batavia, while its dual-sovereign head—the sultan and the temenggong—landed, impoverished, on the British side in Singapore. Thus, this maritime empire gave way to a vacuous frontier-zone between two European rivals, each incapable of exercising the authority they claimed. This was the new site of ‘piracy’, as it had been for Hugo Grotius two centuries before; however, this time it was indigenous seafarers—not rival Europeans—who stood accused of rejecting the freedom of the seas.

Cybersecurity remains one of the most technically complex domains of contemporary risk management, yet much of its vulnerability stems not from systems themselves but from the behavioural patterns of their users and adversaries. This chapter introduces a Behavioural Data Science perspective on cybersecurity – an approach that foregrounds the cognitive, social and affective processes underlying digital decision-making and threat response. Moving beyond the dominant paradigm of technological hardening, this chapter explores how insights from behavioural science, combined with computational modelling, can illuminate the conditions under which individuals make secure or insecure choices. It develops the concept of behavioural cyber-risk modelling, investigates the role of human–machine asymmetries and critiques static compliance-based regimes in favour of adaptive, context-aware systems. By synthesising empirical research and theoretical developments, the chapter proposes a new agenda for cybersecurity rooted in the nuanced realities of human behaviour, data-driven learning and interdisciplinary engagement.

We present historical background, contemporary status, and potential future development of the psychology of religion (PoR) in Indonesia, beginning with its origins: the formative people, places, and various intellectual schools of thought. Writing about the current state of the topic, we reflect on influential factors that are either facilitating or inhibiting the study of PoR, including publication options, topical emphases, practitioners, orientations, methodologies, and professional organizations.

We offer opinions concerning future development topics that are emerging as important in the immediate future and/or are perennially important in order to stimulate creative and useful research including Western theoretical relevance, the extent to which Western PoR theories may or may not contain reasonable expectations and concepts for this region, contextual nuances, Indigenous theoretical concerns, collaborative research opportunities, and common faux pas – reflections on what people unfamiliar with this region commonly and incorrectly assume about conducting PoR work in this context.

This final chapter provides a summary of the book, together with some additional clarifications. Along the way, I will highlight several open questions and difficulties faced by the present account – and, if the account offered here is accurate, by Wittgenstein’s own position.