In this chapter, Guy Zimmerman identifies innovative situated theater as a defining feature of LA drama, rebutting misperceived clichés about LA as a “placeless” city. Offering both a social history of 1980s and 1990s LA theater and extended readings of work by Reza Abdoh and John Steppling (alongside engagement with Luis Alfaro and Anna Deavere Smith), Zimmerman places LA theater within the broader context of the city’s unique cultural geography. He articulates how exemptions from union pay scales via the “Equity Waiver” partially liberated LA’s vibrant independent theater scene from market forces at a time when the rise of neoliberalism seemed to render such escape impossible, while also acknowledging how more recent years have applied yet greater economic and political pressures on artists attempting theatrical innovation in Los Angeles.

Building on the discussion started in Chapter 1 of how invisible agents can shape young women’s lives, Chapter 2 focuses on how young women engage with Pentecostalism to realise auspicious futures. Calabar is well-known for its numerous churches, which render the city a highly competitive and cacophonous religious marketplace. The chapter details how young women, simultaneously enticed by and fearful of novel charismatic practices, must learn to navigate the city’s plural church landscape. Ever curious, young women are often left wondering whether, by attending certain ministries, they are unwittingly harming their attempts to realise the destinies they believe God has planned for them. Drawing on local discourses of ‘spiritual confusion’ and ‘fake pastors’, the chapter highlights how unknown forces might cause deep-seated anxieties in young women as they attempt to grow up but that doubts over what cannot be seen do not stop young women from participating in what they themselves see as questionable Christian practices.

Human flourishing is a fundamental goal of most societies, and various theories have approached this concept, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, self-determination theory (SDT), and the integrative model of behavioural prediction (IMBP). These theories focus on different aspects of well-being and the factors that influence an individual’s ability to lead a fulfilling life. This chapter aims to explore the capability approach (CA) and examines how it complements and connects with these existing theories. This chapter demonstrates how, by emphasising the importance of individual capabilities and human agency, the CA broadens the applicability of these theories. Unlike classical models that focus primarily on analysing situations, the CA highlights the broader context, aiming to enhance flourishing by considering situational determinants and the impact of contextual factors on an individual’s ability to make meaningful choices. This chapter contributes to a more nuanced understanding of human flourishing by illustrating the synergies between the CA model and other theoretical models. It argues that to be truly comprehensive and effective in the real world, theories must embrace the transformative potential of the CA.

The early 2000s saw not only the War on Terror but also the radical transformation of the shape and character of the RAChD. In 2000, the Department’s regular chaplains were male, Christian and part of an organisation that remained confessionally divided. However, and in the space of a decade, its two branches were merged in a process of Convergence; a new (if rather hazy) model of ‘all souls’ ministry was embraced; its base of sending Churches was broadened to embrace Pentecostalism; female chaplains were commissioned; and a new category of tri-service Civilian Chaplains to the Military (representing the Sikh, Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist and Jewish faiths) had been created and incorporated. However, and though buoyed by ecumenical currents and driven by the principles of the McGill Report, this transition was not pain free. Convergence was widely resisted in Catholic circles, while the impetus behind the creation of the Civilian Chaplains to the Military was provided by an unrelenting governmental equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Nevertheless, these changes were remarkable, accomplished as they were against a background of severe operational demands and organisational strain.

Language teacher educators play a key role in educating both pre-service and in-service teachers, as well as engaging in intensive supervisory practices for graduate students. However, this demanding work can lead to a continuous reconstruction of their identity. This chapter adopts narrative inquiry through a series of natural conversations as the methodology for generating and analyzing data to explore the identity reconstruction process of a teacher educator who has been teaching for about 25 years in the Turkish context. As she has been involved in supervision for about seven years, the particular teacher educator was purposefully invited to contribute to the research. The concomitant undertaking of educating and supervising appears to impose several challenges and opportunities to reconstruct her identity as a Language Teacher Educator (LTE). This identity reconstruction emerged after undergoing emotion labor, involving transient conflicts and tensions with colleagues in the faculty and some supervisees.

Chapter 15 explores the foundational practices of planning, assessing, and using data in mathematics education. It unpacks the essential components of effective mathematics lessons and outlines strategies for designing learning sequences that are responsive to student needs. The chapter introduces formative and summative assessment practices, the role of feedback, and how student learning data can be used to inform, adapt, and improve teaching and learning.

Chapter 12 extends students’ understanding of Statistics and introduces foundational concepts in Probability for Years 3 to 6. You will explore how to support students in collecting, organising, and interpreting data, identifying patterns, and predicting outcomes using simple probability language. The chapter also highlights strategies for integrating digital tools, adapting tasks to meet diverse learning needs, and making cross-curricular connections to enhance relevance and engagement.

In this chapter, Aparajita Nanda takes an approach to Los Angeles that simultaneously considers its unique local particularities and its emplacement within international networks of migration, cultural exchange, and economic interdependence. Nanda identifies texts in which not only does the world come to Los Angeles but Los Angeles itself circulates around the world. Via “chutnification” as a metaphor for LA’s rich cultural mix and Bill Ashcroft’s concept of the “transnation,” Nanda offers an extended reading of Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) as a novel that embeds Los Angeles literature’s capacity to hybridize forms and genres as well as geographies and temporalities, linking this to other fiction, by Maria Amparo Escandon, Salman Rushdie, and Karen Tei Yamashita, in which LA literature expands to a global scale, and global texts emplace themselves in LA’s specific locality.

The concept of environmental rule of law plays a pivotal role in enhancing the effectiveness of environmental governance by integrating principles of the rule of law into environmental legislation with a nuanced application. Emerging from the recognition of the distinctiveness of environmental law and the stark implementation gap, it seeks to move environmental laws beyond mere legislation to their effective implementation, compliance, and enforcement. Formally acknowledged within the UN system in 2013, the roots of the principles of the rule of law, albeit sporadic, trace back to the 1970s within the realm of environmental law. Gradually, the concept has significantly evolved, gaining global prominence, institutionalization, and ultimately becoming a fundamental guiding pillar in the 2019 Fifth Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law. This chapter chronicles the evolution of the concept, delineating its journey from scattered elements to a robust holistic framework. Cognizant that the concept continues to evolve, the chapter underscores critical issues that demand further research to maximize the benefits of the environmental rule of law.

Corporate governance involves the rules and practices that direct and control the decision-making of a corporation. The allocation of discretionary decision rights to individuals in organisations directly connects corporate governance with the principles of contributive justice. In this chapter, we start from Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice to provide a perspective on organisational justice and explore the process towards achieving contributive justice as far as determined by the patterns of corporate governance of the organisation. Specifically, we argue that just corporate decision-making needs to build on the contribution of stakeholders to the corporation. This argument is captured by a conceptualisation of justice in terms of contributive justice (see Chapter 3). The emphasis on contributive justice within corporate governance is further developed in a generalised stewardship theory as a model of governance that orients stakeholders towards advancing the collective benefit. The generalised stewardship approach to corporate governance particularly emphasises the contributive aspect of organisational participation, emphasising not only transparency and ex post accountability on the distribution of resources and outcomes but also ‘process accountability’, equity, and integrity.