This chapter articulates Paul’s presentation of “the problem” that God in Christ has resolved. It demonstrates the “transgressive” nature of Paul’s analysis of his world and articulates the way his understanding of the problem features stratified layers of interlocking phenomena: the cosmic power of Sin and the “identity influencers” (or stoicheia) of this world.

The chapter examines the application of intersectionality theory to feminist judgment writing at the International Criminal Court (ICC), questioning whose feminism is centered and which intersections matter. Drawing on Black feminist scholarship, Dawuni evaluates both the merits and limitations of intersectionality as a framework for judicial decision-making in international criminal law. The chapter argues that while intersectionality can illuminate how multiple identities shape experiences of victimisation and access to justice, careful attention must be paid to avoid reproducing marginalisation through oversimplified applications. It critiques the continued impact of coloniality on the ICC’s operations and questions the homogenisation of African experiences in international law. The analysis concludes with recommendations for judges, registry staff, and researchers, emphasising the need for continuous education on intersectionality, greater institutional diversity, and constant self-reflection about positionality and privilege. Dawuni argues that true intersectional justice requires transforming both the composition and operational culture of international criminal institutions.

The concluding chapter discusses the ideological underpinnings of the Chuquisaca movement. It reappraises a recurring idea throughout the book: that appealing to ancient Hispanic constitutional doctrines did not make the political process more moderate and backward-looking, less intransigent and corrosive than other revolutionary movements in Spanish America at the time. It is a concept defined as the radicalism of tradition. Beyond formal political proclamations, routines of obedience to authority broke down; traditional social classifications were no longer associated with a particular kind of participation in public life; and the barriers between the urban popular sectors and the creole elites grew increasingly porous as the local communities asserted themselves as the primary loci of collective identity and their traditional place in the imperial order came under public scrutiny. The growing weight of the general will in state affairs favored a practical exercise of sovereign rights that, couched in the contractual character of the monarchy, made submission to the metropolis and its overseas agents a matter of opinion, an object of consent. A brief assessment of the reception of the liberal Constitution of Cadiz of 1812 highlights the pervasive effects of these shifts in the inner workings of politics and social representations.

The Introduction introduces the central research questions of the study and summarizes the main arguments. It also lays out the research design and discusses the key concepts and how it measures them. Finally, it provides summaries of all of the chapters in the book.

The first chapter focuses on novels such as Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, Eliza Haywood’s Betsy Thoughtless, and Frances Burney’s Camilla, in which a heroine repeatedly ends up dangerously alone with a man. This episode both resembles and threatens to derail the marriage plot. These episodes of getting lost re-tell the marriage plot not as a story of falling in love, but as a series of misadventures in which the heroine gets condemned as a “lost” or “fallen” woman. Earlier in the eighteenth-century novel, the heroine is likened to a prostitute as a result of her sexual desire. Toward the end of the century, the heroine’s resemblance to a “lost” woman no longer results from her stigmatized desire, but from her precarious social status as a woman being considered for marriage, which she is prohibited from fully acknowledging. Earlier subgenre novels anticipate readers who are prohibited from acknowledging and fulfilling their desires. The historically later episodes anticipate readers who are drawn to the subgenre as a means of alleviating their lack of autonomy.

It is hard for regulation to keep up with the rapid development of new technologies. This is partly due to the lack of specialist technical expertise among lawmakers, and partly due to the multi-year timescales for developing, proposing and negotiating complex regulations that lag behind technological advances. Generative AI has been a particularly egregious example of this situation but is by no means the first. On the other hand, technical standardisation in global fora such as ISO and IEC generally does not suffer from a lack of specialist technical expertise. In many cases, it is also able to work on somewhat faster timescales than regulation. Therefore, many jurisdictions have developed synergistic approaches that combine the respective strengths of regulation and standardisation to complement each other.

The seven essays that make up this work are concerned with aspects of Mycenaean Asianism and as such are offered as contributions first to the study of the earliest form of Greek culture to leave behind written records but also to the study of Asianisms, this latter constituting “an evolving field of historical enquiry.” The notion of Asianism has in recent years been defined broadly, as, notably, by Frey and Spakowski (2016a:1), who offer for Asianisms the following: “discursive constructs of Asia and their related political, cultural and social practices.” This sort of Asianism is thus to be kept notionally quite distinct from that “Asianism” that identifies a rhetorical style of Greek literary language that gained popularity in the third century BC, one “characterized by the abandonment of the traditional period and a return to Gorgianic [Gorgias of Leontini, fifth century BC] precepts …, involving the motive accumulation of vocabulary and rapid successions of short antithetical clauses with a heavy emphasis on metaphor, word-play, ‘poetic’ vocabulary, and contrived rhythmic and phonetic effects” (Horrocks 2010:100).

This chapter discusses how UX writers claim elite status through discursive processes of professionalization and skilling. In this case, I am specifically interested in how UX writers as members of a relatively new and emerging professional group define and legitimize their (language) work. The chapter draws on critical sociolinguistic research on language work as well as scholarship in the sociology of professions to examine how UX writers discursively legitimize and professionalize their own work. In my analysis, I observe the construction, codification, and indexing of ’writing-as-designing’ as a (supposedly) unique skill in UX writing, arguing that it is the (dis)avowal of skills through which UX writers can establish their professional field, a practice that is always also connected to particular value judgements. Ultimately, I connect this case study to broader questions of language work, suggesting that in order to understand not just the elite language work of UX writers but also hierarchies of language work more generally, it can be fruitful to broaden such scholarship with a view to professionalization and skilling.

While the preceding three chapters are critical, Chapter 7 can be described as hopeful. It asks the question of ‘what now’, having identified numerous sources of anxieties around a potential renewed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as helped or fully created by the global project of transitional justice. As this chapter is interested in changes for ‘Never Again’, it explores how activists and practitioners in BiH resist and challenge the practices seen as harmful for non-recurrence, pushing different political communities towards a place of enhanced ontological security with, despite, and perhaps even against transitional justice. In this chapter, there are numerous illustrations of what people can do to challenge and change the post-conflict status quo across different aspects of action at the intersection of truth recovery, memorialisation, and education. The chapter conceptualises and imagines non-recurrence beyond governance as not only resistance but also co-existence, binding, and healing; as a form of work.

Chapter 1 is the introductory chapter. It introduces the reader to the two seemingly complementary global imperatives of ‘dealing with the past’ and ensuring non-repetition of mass atrocities. The chapter sets up a conundrum about transitional justice, ontological (in)securities, and non-recurrence. It then proceeds with a summary of the book’s key questions and core arguments. The chapter subsequently puts forward a brief history of the evolution of transitional justice as a global project, a vehicle of peace as well as security, discussing the claimed intersections between transitional justice and ‘Never Again’. This is followed by brief notes on methodology and contributions of the book. In outlining the contributions, the chapter demonstrates how the book interacts with and enriches scholarly knowledge in the field of transitional justice as well as in ontological security studies. Finally, the chapter introduces the outline of the book with brief chapter summaries.