In response to New South Wales’ target of eliminating Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) waste to landfill by 2,050, this study investigates how environmental education shapes residents’ awareness and waste-sorting behaviours in multi-unit dwellings (MUDs) across Greater Western Sydney. Adopting an exploratory mixed-methods approach – integrating surveys, bin audits, interviews, and infrastructure assessments – the research reveals persistent knowledge gaps and structural constraints, particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) households. Guided by the Action Competence Framework (ACF), the findings underscore that effective FOGO participation is not driven by infrastructure alone. Rather, it depends on inclusive, participatory, and culturally responsive education that fosters understanding, builds confidence, and strengthens a sense of shared responsibility. Intergenerational learning emerges as a critical pathway, where everyday household interactions enable behavioural shifts and help reduce contamination at the source. While limited by a small sample size (n = 33) and its exploratory scope, the study makes a meaningful contribution to environmental education scholarship by extending the application of the ACF to informal residential settings. It also offers practical insights for local governments, highlighting the need to embed community-based learning strategies that can drive sustained engagement and support long-term sustainability outcomes in high-density urban environments.

This article examines the multispecies–algorithmic audiovisual installation Astrofin, focusing on the relational structures between multispecies behaviour, algorithmic systems and audiovisual generation. Drawing on theories of intermediality and intermedial interference, it proposes the concept of ‘conflict mechanisms’ to describe misalignments, temporal displacements and shifting intermedial relations within multispecies-algorithmic systems. Rather than understanding media relations through balance and coherence, the article argues that instability and ongoing relational displacement constitute conditions of audiovisual generation. The analysis develops through three dimensions. At the translational level, fish behaviour is transformed into behavioural data and distributed across parallel pathways of sound, image and spatial generation. While sharing the same behavioural data, different generative pathways unfold asynchronously, producing shifting intermedial relations. At the perceptual level, sound and image remain connected while repeatedly separating and recombining, rendering audiovisual synchrony and causal relations unstable. At the level of agency, agency cannot be stably attributed to animals, algorithms, or system structures, as it continuously circulates across different generative conditions. The article further considers the ethical implications of multispecies participation. Astrofin avoids treating animal behaviour as symbolic representation or a carrier of meaning, instead focusing on how multispecies relations are mediated through algorithmic and audiovisual structures.

The US role in global agricultural markets shifts with competition, trade issues, and conflict. This study examines the impact of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) ending stocks projections on corn and soybean futures prices. Using an event study framework and futures price data, we find that unexpected changes in US ending stocks drive price responses while world ending stocks do not. Our results suggest markets treat USDA as the more credible source for domestic supply information but not for global aggregates. For hedgers and policymakers, knowing which information moves prices is essential to managing risk and allocating data collection resources.

The target paper brings a new dimension to cultural evolution research. The findings it reports are consistent with the hypothesis that it is integrated cognitive networks – i.e., ways of structuring knowledge – that evolve through culture, as opposed to discrete units of cultural knowledge. The impact of child peer groups on cultural evolution could be modeled using methods from network science.

While Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are increasingly investigated for technical viability, discussion of their broader societal implications remains limited. To address this gap, we conducted a multidisciplinary co-design workshop centred on a self-healing biomineralised bacterial cellulose (BMBC). Twenty participants from biodesign, bio-nanoscience, materials science, and engineering worked in six groups through a three-phase process: 1) generating application concepts, 2) designing how self-healing would unfold and be experienced, and 3) reflecting on ecological, social, economic, and future implications. Workshop outcomes and discussions were analysed using thematic analysis. Participants framed self-healing not merely as functional repair but as temporal, expressive, and relational transformation, emphasizing personalisation, regeneration, trust, and systemic embedding. The study demonstrates how early, material-led design exploration can surface societal dimensions before technical pathways stabilise. We argue that multidisciplinary co-design supports more responsible ELM development by revealing how such materials may function, be interpreted, and acquire meaning in everyday contexts.

Lew-Levy and Amir argue that the cultural role of human children has been overlooked. Juveniles have been similarly overlooked in research on animal culture. Youngsters are often innovative, and ample opportunities exist for cultural transmission to peers and adults. We review the evidence and argue that the young may be a powerful cultural force in human and nonhuman societies alike.

Lew-Levy and Amir emphasize the importance of peer cultures in understanding children’s active roles in preserving and transforming cultural knowledge. We review research highlighting peer teaching as a specific mechanism through which peer culture is maintained and transmitted. We argue that understanding peer teaching is essential to the broader understanding of cultural continuity and change.

This article demonstrates the profound shaping influence of the First World War on the post-war lives and ministries of Australian Anglican Army chaplains. Through their use of the Anglican liturgy and their leadership of Anzac commemoration, returned Anglican chaplains offered means of consolation and hope to grieving Australians. They also addressed the need of many Australian veterans to make sense of their war experience as meaningful and sacred. In doing so, returned chaplains created the rituals, symbols and liturgy that would give enduring voice and shape to an emerging Australian civil religion. Veteran chaplains also founded religious brotherhoods; forged institutions, ministries and advocacy aimed towards the working class and men; and offered a corporate vision of society that sought to break the impasse between labour and capital, and contend with post-war claims of fascism, communism and capitalism. In turn, this article contends that the war’s aftermath represents a moment in Australian history when the Anglican Church focused on what it meant to be a nation, and the goals and aspirations worthy of national energy and enthusiasm. Returned Anglican chaplains were able, and had earned the right, to speak about such matters.

Within their peer cultures, children not only teach and socially learn from one another, but they also prompt one another to confront and adapt to different, coequal perspectives in a way that superintending adults cannot do.

As China’s land-financed development model faces increasing constraints, local governments have turned to public data as a new strategic resource. However, there is a governance puzzle with public data: how can the state mobilize a resource whose ownership remains legally and politically unresolved? This article examines Local Digital Platform Vehicles (LDPVs), hybrid corporations that have proliferated since the early 2010s. Drawing on data gathered from extensive interviews and an original nationwide dataset of LDPVs from 2014 to 2025, we argue that these entities enable local governments to exercise “control without ownership” by asserting authority over data flows rather than through formal property rights. Internally, control is achieved through co-shareholding, task approval, personnel and strategic partner selection, which bind market actors to local developmental objectives. Externally, LDPVs extract value by internalizing subcontractor profits, pursuing data financialization and shifting towards platform-based models. The article shows how China’s local developmental state is developing new organizational instruments for governance in the digital age.

This article brings a critical feminist phenomenological lens to a central pillar of the international humanitarian law regime – the proportionality rule – and reflects on how the narrow, masculine orientation of the norm fails to accommodate women’s experiences of incidental mental harm. While women disproportionately experience double the rates of post-traumatic stress disorder in response to trauma events than do men, the proportionality rule does not expressly include mental harm within its ambit, exposing the rule to conservative interpretation and exclusionary applications for gendered mental harm. Some interpretations of the temporal constraints of the rule (concerned with the legality of single strikes, absent their latent, reverberating effects) reflect a dominant event-based legal model at odds with women’s experiences of mental harm that are protracted, cumulative and repercussive. Studies reveal women’s fear as a product of constructions of masculinity and femininity, structural inequity, and fear conditioning. This article offers a reparative response through a gendered and temporal alignment of the principle of proportionality with women’s experiences of mental harm in armed attacks.

This article argues that the current Anglican Communion crisis is best understood as constitutional erosion: the weakening of shared norms that historically mediated disagreement through recognizable form, restraint and reception. Doctrinal and moral disputes function as triggers, but the deeper driver is the loss of a common grammar of legitimacy, so that procedurally valid provincial actions can be constitutionally unintelligible to other provinces. The article interprets key African and Global South interventions not primarily as theological or cultural reaction but as contested constitutional reasoning rooted in episcopal guardianship, communion discipline and inherited catholic order. It analyses the Global Anglican Future Conference and Global South instruments as substitute constitutional documents generated by the incapacity of the Instruments of Communion to secure effective restraint and proposes a minimal inter-provincial accord: clarified instrument authority, operationalized reception, limited covenantal discipline and a standing advisory process for communion impairment.

A reflection on the recent Nairobi-Cairo proposals of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). The background to the proposals is set out with criticism of the resulting document and suggestions for improving relations in the Anglican Communion.

During World War II, the Japanese Kwantung Army’s Unit 731 secretly conducted large-scale, inhumane, and unethical human experimentation in China, culminating in one of the most heinous medical atrocities, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in the Asia-Pacific theatre of the war. Despite the gravity of the subject matter and its historical significance, research on Unit 731 has, for a long time, been rather limited, but has gradually increased in recent decades. In this article, we identify several important characteristics and trends in research activities related to Unit 731, with a view to providing a general overview of the existing scholarship and to providing recommendations for future research.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, academic research started to accumulate. The second stage was one of rapid development from the 1980s to the 1990s. During this period, research efforts in Japan had a far-reaching influence and began to spread to China, Europe, and the U.S. Scholars from scientific, medical, and educational communities began participating in Unit 731 research successively. The third stage of multi-dimensional development began at the onset of the twenty-first century. Research expanded into comparative inquiries of Japanese medical atrocities and their Nazi counterpart; at the same time, research on many topics in diverse disciplines was also deepened and intensified. In addition to focusing on pragmatic issues such as reflections and actions of modern society and reconciliation, researchers have also been concerned with historical writing and collective memory.