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The determinants of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across countries
We identify 21 predetermined country-level factors that explain marked variations in weekly COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across 91 countries...
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Williams’s Integrity Objection as a Psychological Problem
Utilitarianism is the view that as far as morality goes, one ought to choose the option which will result in the most overall well-being—that is,...
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Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism
A long-asked question in children’s literature studies is how the child reads the very same book we (adults) have read. In 1984, Peter Hunt argued...
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Political Agency in the Era of Precision Education Governance in Higher Education
In this chapter, I consider academic political agency through four overlap** narratives emerging from my previous academic writing projects of...
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Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene
My objective in this chapter is to develop a Freudian-Heideggerian understanding of the concept of utopia that conceives of the impulse to imagine...
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Inserting machines, displacing people: how automation imaginaries for agriculture promise ‘liberation’ from the industrialized farm
An emerging discourse about automated agricultural machinery imagines farms as places where farmers and workers do not need to be, but also...
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Practical Reason, the Importance of Personal Commitments, Plans, and Projects, and the Minimum Content of Morality
This chapter examines the nature of practical reason, the centrality of personal or subjective commitments and purposes to choices about good human...
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The Role of Islamic Psychological Contract on Authentic Leadership and Organizational Commitment
This study tries to explore the dimensions of psychological contract from Islamic perspective, which acts as a mediator between authentic leadership...
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Raising the Ambition of Urban Agriculture in Public Space: Nurturing Urban Agroecology and More-than-Human Health
Building on 15 years of research in the field of urban agriculture, this chapter discusses key issues that refrain urban agriculture from achieving...
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Everything for My Children: Social Policies and Traces of Hope
Since the late nineteenth century, state actions have aimed at alleviating poverty and inequality involved in the development of capitalism. For the...
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Answering the Call: Narratives of Authenticity, Identity, and Connection in ‘wellness tourism’ Advertising
Wellness tourism represents a powerful intersection between the trillion-dollar tourism industry and the trillion-dollar wellness industry. Central...
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Green and Smart Visions of Urban Futures
This chapter discusses urban greentopia. Although there is a growing consensus that future cities ought to be smart and green, a diffused rhetoric...
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Introduction: On Space Policy, Development and Security in Nigeria and South Africa
This chapter introduces space policy, socioeconomic development and security in Nigeria and South Africa, and locates these countries in theoretical...
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How Utilitarianism Can Inform Decent Managers in Plural and Culturally Diverse Contexts
Utilitarianism, the theory that one should do what will bring about the greatest happiness for the many, is an excellent ethical theory to guide...
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Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming
This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual...
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Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism
Stoicism celebrates the power of thinking and recognizes human equality. Unrelentingly disjunctive, stoicism reinvents humans, detaching what I...
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Introduction
HYPERID, abbreviated from ’Hyper Inter-Methodological Delivery”, is a methodology for the planning and implementation of all types of projects and...
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Environmental sustainability in sport: formula 1’s SDGs responsiveness
Sports activities are one of the tools of Agenda 2030 within the scope of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Motorsports have also recognized its...
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Discursive Ethics (of Morality)
The development of discursive ethics is one of the greatest achievements of Habermas’s theoretical work. It builds on and upgrades the theory of...