title: Afterword
abstract: A common motivation of scholars, regardless of their discipline, is to conduct research that has the ambition and potential to contribute to contemporary, ongoing debates. There is an understandable desire that research outputs are relevant, up-to-date, and take the opportunity to reflect on the most important questions and issues occupying the discipline at that particular moment in time and to situate them in the context of current events. At a certain point, however, as a project nears comple