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This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of
contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people
across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
contributors provide international perspectives on the effects of
this "corohysteria" in areas such as education, healthcare,
religion, psychology, mathematics, economics, media, racism,
politics, etc. They argue the hysteria, angst, fear, unrest, and
difficulties associated with the pandemic are exploited to foster
political and social agendas and have led to the undermining of
national and global responses to the virus.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the
debate between proponents of Black Lives Matter and All Lives
Matter has been reignited. For proponents of Black Lives Matter,
the slogan All Lives Matter is not a call for inclusiveness but a
criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. On the other hand,
advocates of All Lives Matter insist their slogan is about
diversity and colorblindness. The contributors included in Black
Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter: A Multidisciplinary Primer
approach the subject from fields as wide ranging as sociology,
mathematics, linguistics, business, politics, and psychology, to
name a few. This collection adds complexity and international
perspectives to the debate, allowing these seemingly simple
quarrels over phrasing to be unpacked from many angles. A
refreshing variety of looks at one of the defining social movements
of the last decade and the reaction to it, this collection will be
valuable to those seeking to understand these movements in ways
beyond how they are typically framed.
Corruption in Society: Multidisciplinary Conceptualizations is the
first book to address the notion of corruption in a truly
multidisciplinary manner, augmented with empirical evidence. The
prevalent definition in books and articles on corruption is that it
is a dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those with political and/or
economic power, typically involving bribery. This political-economy
or public choice denotation, while very useful, is inadequate for a
comprehensive understanding of the concept because the notion of
corruption appears in every discipline. For example, in the field
of chemistry, chemical corruption concerns (a) the incorporation of
defective compounds into experiments to better simulate conditions
on the early-Earth and to help us understand how the first
molecules of life formed and (b) how to make chemicals appear
safer, sometimes dodging restrictions on their use, by minimizing
the estimates of how much is released into the environment. In
order to address this shortcoming, this book provides a
discipline-by-discipline conceptualization of corruption buttressed
with evidence from the discipline.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the
debate between proponents of Black Lives Matter and All Lives
Matter has been reignited. For proponents of Black Lives Matter,
the slogan All Lives Matter is not a call for inclusiveness but a
criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. On the other hand,
advocates of All Lives Matter insist their slogan is about
diversity and colorblindness. The contributors included in Black
Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter: A Multidisciplinary Primer
approach the subject from fields as wide ranging as sociology,
mathematics, linguistics, business, politics, and psychology, to
name a few. This collection adds complexity and international
perspectives to the debate, allowing these seemingly simple
quarrels over phrasing to be unpacked from many angles. A
refreshing variety of looks at one of the defining social movements
of the last decade and the reaction to it, this collection will be
valuable to those seeking to understand these movements in ways
beyond how they are typically framed.
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