A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Samuli Laato, Md. Shamim Talukder, Erkki Sutinen
Highlights • We study social media use, fake news sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19.• Self-promotion and entertainment increase the sharing of unverified information.• Exploration and religiosity correlate negatively with the sharing of unverified information.• Deficient self-regulati...
Amartya Sen
Famines often take place in situations of moderate to good food availability, without any significant decline of food supply per head. The paper presents an alternative approach to famines, which does not concentrate on availability, but on people's ability to command food through legal means availa...
M. Afzalur Rahim, Nace R. Magner
Confirmatory factor analysis of data (from 5 samples, n = 484 full-time employed management students; n = 550 public administrators; n = 214 university administrators; n = 250 bank managers and employees in Bangladesh; and n = 578 managers and employees) on the 28 items of the Rahim Organizational C...
Mead Cain, Syeda Rokeya Khanam, Shamsun Nahar
Zapan Barua, Sajib Barua, Salma Aktar, Najma Kabir et al.
The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms is faster than the spread of Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) and it can generate hefty deleterious consequences on health amid a disaster like COVID-19. Drawing upon research on the stimulus-response theory (hypodermic needle theory) and...
Anuradha Basu, Eser Altinay
This article examines the interaction between culture and immigrant entrepreneurship with reference to London's ethnic minorities. It compares the cultural attributes of different ethnic groups and how these affect their entrepreneurial behaviour. The article reports and analyses the results of 163 ...
Shahidul M. Islam
Deborah Phillips
The urban disturbances in Bradford, Oldham, and Burnley in 2001 served to underline the contested meanings of black and minority ethnic residential segregation in Britain. Official reports into the disturbances highlighted the depth of ethnic divisions in these northern cities, where, it was contend...
Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller
Tonia Poteat, Andrea L. Wirtz, Anita Radix, Annick Bórquez et al.
Worldwide, transgender women who engage in sex work have a disproportionate risk for HIV compared with natal male and female sex workers. We reviewed recent epidemiological research on HIV in transgender women and show that transgender women sex workers (TSW) face unique structural, interpersonal, a...
Martha C. Nussbaum, Jonathan Glover
BL Distinguished editors and contributors BL Addresses questions of some urgency for the question of women's quality of life BL Inter-disciplinary, ranging over philosophy, economics, political science, anthropology, law and sociology BL Combines theory with case-studies BL Accessible to non-special...
Jane McAdam
Abstract Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protec...
Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Helen Adams, Harald Sterly et al.
Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, Bandana Pattanaik
Introduction Abolitionism, Criminal Justice, and Transnational Feminism : Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Human Trafficking Kamala Kempadoo Shifting Paradigms Globalization, Labor Migration, and Human Rights: Unpacking the Trafficking Discourse Jyoti Sanghera Cross-Border Movements and the Law:...