Financialization of healthcare drains our current system of resources it needs to provide care. It occurs when money is siphoned off for private profit through mechanisms such as rent seeking, gamesmanship, and exploitative price setting. This is not an ethically neutral activity, and the people profiting in this way ought to justify why they are entitled to this money, given the foreseeable negative effects what they are doing has on people’s health. This important problem is masked by current accounting methods and healthcare billing methods, which need to be changed to allow for a more transparent assessment of what is really occurring.

This short article explores trans mothering as an embodied practice of popular sovereignty in the context of the Syrian state army. Moving beyond traditional state-centered and militarized masculinities that shape scholarly notions of sovereignty, I demonstrate how trans mothering—embodied through listening, care, and affirmation of fellow soldiers—became a mode of antiwar world-making amid Assad’s counterrevolutionary war. The article centers on the story of Duaa, a trans woman whose gender identity was denied by the Syrian state. Forcibly conscripted and sent to the frontlines in the Damascus suburbs, Duaa developed everyday practices of trans care and support toward fellow soldiers, reorienting military service around mutual support rather than state control. Building on ethnographic research and life history interviews in Lebanon, I engage with Syrian–Palestinian writer Naya Rajab’s approach to trans mothering and Amahl Bishara’s theorization of popular sovereignty as a disruptive force against authoritarian rule. Through this framework, the article illustrates how Duaa’s trans mothering temporarily shifts the army’s hierarchy into acts that nurture mutual care rather than sovereign obedience. Her trans care reimagines sovereignty not necessarily through resistance, but through the everyday reconstitution of state power on state military bases. Finally, the article argues for a reconsideration of popular sovereignty in post-Assad Syria, where massacres and displacement continue to serve as technologies of sovereign rule under Ahmad al-Sharaa.

This memoir of John Ellis Jones, best known for his contributions to the Classical archaeology of rural Attica, traces his early studies in North Wales, his first encounters with Greece in the early 1950s, his family life, and the teaching posts he held at the University of Leicester (1957–8) and at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) – the latter for 37 years until his formal retirement in 1995, after which he continued to support Classics in North Wales for many more years. His important contributions to the archaeology of Classical Greece, especially rural Attica, are outlined, together with an example of the distinctive artwork with which he embellished his copious publications. Also highlighted are his many contributions to the archaeology and history of North Wales. The memoir is accompanied by a complete bibliography of his publications, many in Welsh.

Dan Friedman, a cofounder and artistic director emeritus of the Castillo Theatre in New York City, interviews Daniel Maposa, the founder and executive director of Savanna Trust, a politically engaged theatre based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Their conversation covers the history of political theatre in Zimbabwe from colonial times to the present.

Hydatid cyst is an infectious disease that occurs in humans due to infection of Echinococcus granulosus larvae. Although cardiac hydatid cysts are rare, right atrial localisation is even rarer. The aim of this article is to emphasise the importance of always being alert and prepared for the risk of anaphylaxis developing due to cyst rupture in paediatric patients with isolated cardiac hydatid cysts, to initiate oral albendazole treatment immediately upon diagnosis, to underline the importance of surgical timing, and to discuss the role of clinical assessment and imaging methods in predicting of cyst rupture.

This article uses the assemblage of surface-survey ceramics collected in the 2021 and 2022 West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) field seasons to discuss the landscape structure and networking patterns (internal and external to the island) of Archaic through Byzantine south-west Samos. Collected in the basin of Marathokampos with intensive field pedestrian methods, a subset of a dataset of 1303 ceramics is discussed alongside the environmental context of their findspots. Spatial analysis is used to identify 15 ‘Areas of Interest’ in the landscape, densely populated by surface ceramics. The ceramic assemblage is interpreted in the framework of the Samian pottery production, to evaluate the entanglements of south-west Samos in regional and extra-regional trade networks. The main fabric groups are discussed and the range of types compared to material from the Hera Sanctuary and other parts of Samos. This leads to the surprising picture of a mostly inwards-looking island economy. Through the ages the assemblage is by far dominated by local productions, and the very few long-distance imports reflect more indirect trade contacts than an actively maintained, extensive trade network.

The source of material for Group XX stone artefacts is reassessed using extant geological and petrological information and complemented with new field and artefact pXRF analyses. Our reassessment of extant archaeological and petrological data supports earlier conclusions that a possible origin for Group XX stone tools is in the Charnwood Forest area, just north of Leicester. Based on petrographic evidence, this source is now considered to lie within the geological Bradgate Formation. This formation is exposed in a broad, U-shaped band around the eastern and southern fringes of Charnwood Forest where the Ediacaran volcanic tuff rocks form rugged exposures penetrating the overlying Triassic sandstones and mudstones. A new study of Group XX artefacts at museums in Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, and Sheffield revealed a number of distinct morphologies, two of which lead us to suggest that they represent axehead templates that are likely to have derived from specific design and manufacturing, rather than from ad-hoc extraction or loose material selection and random shaping. New pXRF data are used to supplement existing information and similarities in immobile large ion lithophile and high field strength element concentrations between both artefacts and exposures, presenting the possibility that the immediate area near the Windmill Hill exposure of the Bradgate Formation, at Woodhouse Eaves, is close to, or indeed contains the source of, Group XX material.

This article investigates the dynamics of microcredit in late-medieval Italy by examining the case of fourteenth-century Vercelli and its surrounding rural area. Drawing on an extensive corpus of notarial sources, it highlights how credit networks were sustained not only by elite bankers and merchants but also by less prominent actors embedded in everyday social and economic life. Two case studies – the baker Enrico da Greggio and the priest Salerno Ferraroto – illustrate the role of small-scale lenders and borrowers in structuring a dense web of transactions. Their activities reveal how personal trust, proximity and reciprocity enabled access to liquidity through loans, rents and credit, often mediated by the Sant’Andrea monastery and hospital. Far from marginal, these practices constituted a vital infrastructure of support for urban and rural populations alike, allowing individuals of modest means to become active participants in the circulation of capital. By analysing these intertwined networks, the article underscores the significance of documentary practices in shaping the economy of trust and credit. The study ultimately argues that grassroots credit systems were central to the functioning of late-medieval urban society, challenging narratives that privilege only large-scale or institutional forms of credit.

The outbreak of the American Revolution thrust would-be revolutionaries into a paradoxical relationship with the law. As they overthrew colonial governments from New Hampshire to Georgia during the summer and fall of 1775, leaders of the resistance to Great Britain found themselves in the awkward position of having to justify rebellion against British authority while still professing to be law-abiding Britons. The revolutionaries’ mandate to govern rested on protecting rights to property and representation that many colonists believed had been violated by agents of the Empire, but the practicalities of war demanded extra-legal measures. The popular governments that replaced colonial administrations had to find a way to balance upholding many of the laws of the old regime while simultaneously organizing an armed insurrection against it. Much of this burden fell on revolutionary committees at the town and local level. As the Continental Congress and provincial elites vacillated between rebellion and reconciliation and struggled to assert control over the fast-growing revolutionary coalition, ad hoc governments comprised of ordinary citizens took on the tasks of governing their regions and organizing for armed struggle. For much of 1775 and early 1776, these popular regimes precariously balanced the need for extra-legal expediencies with the need to maintain at least a semblance of law to maintain their legitimacy.

I spell out a distinctive account of what is wrong with inequalities of wealth: they constitute asymmetries of power. Two ideas lie behind this view. The first is that asymmetries of power constitute inegalitarian relationships. Think of the relationship of king to subject or master to slave: these are in part constituted by asymmetric power. The second is that wealth gives one power over people. When you have a lot of money, you can pay people to do what you want, and that gives you power over them. Inequalities of wealth, by constituting asymmetries of power, thus constitute objectionably inegalitarian relationships.

Let A be an abelian variety defined over a global function field F and let p be a prime distinct from the characteristic of F. Let $F_\infty $ be a p-adic Lie extension of F that contains the cyclotomic $\mathbb {Z}_p$-extension $F^{\mathrm {cyc}}$ of F. In this paper, we investigate the structure of the p-primary Selmer group $\mathrm {Sel}(A/F_\infty )$ of A over $F_\infty $. We prove the $\mathfrak {M}_H(G)$-conjecture for $A/F_\infty $. Furthermore, we show that both the $\mu $-invariant of the Pontryagin dual of the Selmer group $\mathrm {Sel}(A/F^{\mathrm {cyc}})$ and the generalized $\mu $-invariant of the Pontryagin dual of the Selmer group $\mathrm {Sel}(A/F_\infty )$ are zero, thereby proving Mazur’s conjecture for $A/F$. We then relate the order of vanishing of the characteristic elements, evaluated at Artin representations, to the corank of the Selmer group of the corresponding twist of A over the base field F. Assuming the finiteness of the Tate–Shafarevich group, we establish that this corank equals the order of vanishing of the L-function of $A/F$ at $s=1$. Finally, we extend a theorem of Sechi—originally proved for elliptic curves without complex multiplication—to abelian varieties over global function fields. This is achieved by adapting the notion of generalized Euler characteristic, introduced by Zerbes for elliptic curves over number fields. This new invariant allows us, via Akashi series, to relate the generalized Euler characteristic of $\mathrm {Sel}(A/F_\infty )$ to the Euler characteristic of $\mathrm {Sel}(A/F^{\mathrm {cyc}})$.

We consider a mixed Steklov–Dirichlet eigenvalue problem on a smooth bounded domain having a spherical hole. In this article, we take Dirichlet condition on the boundary of the spherical hole and Steklov condition on the other boundary component/s. Under certain symmetry assumptions on multiconnected domains in $\mathbb {R}^{n}$ having a spherical hole, we obtain isoperimetric inequalities for the k-th Steklov–Dirichlet eigenvalues for each $k \in \{2, 3, \dots , n+1\}$. We provide examples to emphasise the fact that the symmetry assumptions, on the family of domains considered, are crucial. We also extend Theorem 3.1 of “Gavitone et al. (2023), An isoperimetric inequality for the first Steklov–Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue of convex sets with a spherical hole, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 320(2): 241–259” not only from Euclidean domains to domains in space forms but also from convex domains to star-shaped domains. In particular, we obtain sharp lower and upper bounds for the first Steklov–Dirichlet eigenvalue on the family of all bounded star-shaped domains on the hemisphere as well as on the hyperbolic space.