Relationship maintenance scholars have long attempted to understand the processes by which partners foster relationship growth. They have done so by focusing on defining and explaining key maintenance strategies that serve to initiate and preserve romantic relationships. In this chapter, we provide a brief history of the relationship maintenance literature. Then we identify the key theoretical contributions to the current understanding of relationship maintenance and discuss recent theoretical developments and known correlates. We conclude the chapter by highlighting the need to diversify and expand the maintenance literature by identifying possible avenues for future inquiry and proposing ways to integrate work across disciplines.

This chapter investigates the ‘bass music’ genres of dubstep and trap at massive North American festivals in the 2010s, an era in which DJ sets were characterised by a sensationalised moment known as ‘the drop’. It begins by demonstrating that the sense of rupture delivered by the drop is emmeshed with social and musical disputes (especially in online festival groups). The chapter then examines the gendered dimensions of the bass music drop. It ends by considering bass music’s #MeToo moment of reckoning regarding alleged sexual misconduct by the dubstep producer-DJ Datsik. In doing so, the chapter suggests that despite previous and ongoing associations with unity, transcendence, and escapism, EDM is sometimes unable to escape the divisions and ills of the world as it is. Rather than ignoring the dark sides of EDM culture through affirmative scholarship, our field would benefit from a critical turn and methodological innovation.

Reparations are a key mechanism for delivering justice to victims and survivors of armed conflicts. The first generation of victim engagement was marked by demands for reparations from state authorities, making them a core element of post-war justice. This chapter examines how the nature of a past conflict shapes the conditions for victim engagement in reparations. It is shown that social classifications of victim groups that arose during or prior to conflict act as a moderating factor, influencing who is deemed eligible for compensation. However, these classifications are not fixed; victims and survivors can actively reshape them through transitional justice processes. This chapter examines how social classifications shape reparation policies by analysing three case studies – Guatemala, Timor-Leste, and Northern Ireland – each representing a distinct type of conflict. It explores the opportunities and constraints victims face in articulating and securing compensation claims, highlighting how these are influenced by evolving social classifications.

In this chapter, we aim to analyze Basque psych predicates following Belletti and Rizzi’s (1988) three-way classification of Italian psych verbs. As we will see, some Basque psych predicates fit into these authors’ classification, although the case and agreement marking of experiencer and stimulus in Basque follows an ergative pattern rather than a nominative one. We will also explore the alternations in which some of these verbs participate, such as the psych causative alternation and the antipassive construction. Additionally, we will analyze psych predicates that involve psych nouns and adjectives in both intransitive and transitive constructions. As will be shown, in intransitive constructions, there are two types of datives in combination with psych nouns and adjectives: those that express the experiencer and those that express the stimulus. These experiencer and stimulus datives behave in opposite ways with regards to some tests such as agreement, constituency, hierarchy, and selection. Lastly, we will analyze those transitive constructions that involve a dative experiencer and an ergative stimulus, as well as those that involve a dative stimulus and an ergative experiencer. The analysis of all these constructions provides us with a more nuanced picture for a typology of psych predicates.

The Introduction outlines the book’s central concern with the practice and abolition of the death penalty in British colonies from the 1960s to the 1990s. It traces the development of the royal prerogative of mercy during the first half of the twentieth century and explains factors that influenced the colonial clemency process prior to abolition of the death penalty in Britain in 1965. It also introduces the competing pressures imposed on British death penalty policy by decolonisation and the development of capital punishment as a global human rights concern in the late twentieth century. Finally, it discusses the primary sources on which the study is based, explains the scope of the research and summarises each chapter.

Chapter 8 examines the core principles of the Court to interpret the right to free and fair elections (Article 3 Protocol 1) and interrogates the long-standing minimalism attached to its substantive and procedural obligations, which is also translated in the wide margin of appreciation when the Court leaves it to the discretion of the governments to ‘mould’ their own model of democracy. A similar restraint in scrutinizing the purpose of interference in the proportionality analysis is observed and reflect the Court’s historical record of protecting only the existential conditions democracy. It lends further support to the argument that the Court’s interpretive equipment proves insufficient in the face of infrastructural erosion.

Industry figures show that whilst most attendees at electronic dance music events are young adults, older people are also participating. The changing demographic destabilises conventional readings of a culture hitherto associated with youth and reveals the shifting priorities and expectations of older people in relation to (sub)cultural participation. This chapter investigates the impact of this emerging trend and examines the role clubbing plays in the lives of older people. Drawing on the perspectives of participants over forty, it highlights the contradictory attitudes that circulate around the topic of club culture and ageing. Whilst the reported benefits of participation are significant, older people’s presence provokes polarised views and notions of belonging in the scene can be undermined by concerns about fitting in, appearance and feeling ‘othered’. The discussion foregrounds these tensions and explore the ways in which older people’s participation in club culture is provoking change.

The notion of truth is a powerful one within transitional justice, and truth-telling and truth-seeking are considered to be a necessary part of any justice pursuit. Also in the US, official government actors are creating truth commissions (or truth commission-like processes) in order to acknowledge and address a wide range of violent and discriminatory contexts, both historical and present-day. This chapter explores two such truth commissions operating at the sub-national level, namely in the states of Maryland and California. Drawing from participatory scholarship, the chapter evaluates these examples and highlights how current and future truth processes can better conceptualise and implement victim participation in order to have deeper engagement and impact with affected communities. Examining these efforts around agency and empowerment can shed light on broader developments around formalised participation, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the second generation of victim engagement in transitional justice practices in the US.

The Self, the Other, and the Telos of Prosocial Action: Paul and Ethicists Ancient and Modern: Ancient ethicists portrayed ideal behaviour as oriented towards the construction of shared selves whose interests are irreducibly common, whereas modern ethicists rejected the possibility of shared selfhood and so interpreted all actions along a spectrum of egoism and altruism. Paul’s letters appear to stand in the former tradition.

Schemes of arrangement have become the structure of choice for recommended bids in the UK. This chapter examines the reasons for this development and compares the use of these two mechanisms for effecting a change of control, including the level of minority protection that exists in both procedures. The question of whether this use of a scheme of arrangement rather than a traditional offer gives rise to any concerns is addressed. It is suggested that there are no reasons to be sceptical about the use of schemes of arrangement to effect a change of control. Crucially, the Takeover Code in the UK governs changes of control of relevant companies by way of a scheme of arrangement as an alternative to a traditional takeover offer. While the minority protection available to shareholders in a scheme and in an offer are distinct, these differences are explicable when the purpose and function of these different mechanisms are considered. Supervision by the English courts and, where appropriate, the Takeover Panel, operates to provide sufficient safeguards and protections for dissenting and minority shareholders and other parties concerned about the potential impact of the transaction on their rights.

This chapter identifies two vantage points for examining the Court’s account of the rule of law in response to populism, Article 6 (in particular, its ‘tribunal established by law’ and ‘access to a court’ requirements) and Article 18 (bad faith violations). It shows that in the former case the Court makes a sustained effort to bring its principles of independence and impartiality to the fore but equally fails to identify a distinct type of (infrastructural) alteration to democracy and the rule of law. In the latter case, it is argued that (the rise of) Article 18 rescues a deficient proportionality test. It calls for an enhanced test, one that can grasp and respond to infrastructural erosion.