‘Boomerang Effect’: The Repercussions of Critical Regionalism in 1980s Greece

The Struggle to Fight a Humane War

10.1093/oso/9780199379774.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sahr Conway-Lanz

Keyword(s):

Korean War ◽

The United States ◽

Prisoners Of War ◽

International Consensus ◽

Public Controversy ◽

Building Process ◽

Boomerang Effect ◽

The Korean War ◽

War Experiences ◽

War Victims

The Korean War demonstrated the serious problems that the United States had adhering to the new 1949 Geneva Conventions and the severely limited protections that these new treaties provided. The protections for war victims were undermined both by serious gaps in the treaties that failed to provide much safety from bombing to civilians and by US deviations from the agreements in the handling of refugees and prisoners of war. However, Americans did not discard the agreements in the wake of their troubled Korean War experiences. Instead, the war helped to legitimize and lay the foundation for the further internalization of the new laws through their formal implementation, the public controversy they generated, and a boomerang effect of atrocity accusations. Despite failing to provide much protection for Korean War victims, the treaties were part of a broader international consensus-building process that helped to spread humanitarian norms.

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Benefits First: Consumer Trust Repair in Mobile Commerce

Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research ◽

10.3390/jtaer16040061 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 1079-1096

Author(s):

He-Da Zhang ◽

Shih-Chih Chen ◽

Athapol Ruangkanjanases

Keyword(s):

Psychological Contract ◽

Mobile Commerce ◽

Experimental Results ◽

Consumer Trust ◽

Trust Repair ◽

Service Failures ◽

Boomerang Effect

The purpose of this study is to explore trust repair strategies and the outcomes in mobile (m-)commerce. Consumer trust in m-commerce is a calculus-based form of trust; service failures, “inaction” and “excessive actions” are the typical trust decline situations. Three strategies of the fulfillment of consumers’ psychological contract for compensation, arousal, and regulation are proposed as trust-repaired solutions regarding the abovementioned three situations. The experimental results demonstrate that trust cannot be repaired by a single relational psychological contract strategy and that it can be repaired by both a single transactional and interactive strategy; the interactive strategy is more effective in competence-based decline. Second, in integrity-based decline, both the single and interactive strategy negatively influence trust repair; the relational strategy has the strongest effect. The “boomerang effect” shows that the more m-vendors repair, the more the trust decreases. Third, trust can be repaired, respectively by arousal and regulation strategy regarding corresponding situations of inaction and excessive actions. Finally, the trust repair paradox (TRP) has not been verified in m-commerce.

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Quantum boomerang effect: Beyond the standard Anderson model

Physical Review A ◽

10.1103/physreva.103.063316 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 103 (6) ◽

Author(s):

L. Tessieri ◽

Z. Akdeniz ◽

N. Cherroret ◽

D. Delande ◽

P. Vignolo

Keyword(s):

Anderson Model ◽

Boomerang Effect

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Intentions to Consume Sustainably Produced Fish: The Moderator Effects of Involvement and Environmental Awareness

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020946 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 946

Author(s):

Kåre Skallerud ◽

John Armbrecht ◽

Ho Huy Tuu

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Behavioral Control ◽

Environmental Awareness ◽

Food Product ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Perceived Behavioral Control ◽

Product Involvement ◽

Boomerang Effect ◽

Positive Effect

The purpose of this study is to apply the conceptual framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain the consumption of sustainable produced fish in Sweden. We seek to understand the moderating role of food product involvement and environmental awareness as extensions of traditional constructs such as attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioral control. The data were derived from a representative sample of 1974 Swedish consumers. Structural equation modeling was applied to test the relationships between constructs and evaluate the reliability and the validity of the constructs. Attitudes had a significantly positive effect on intention to consume fish in general and sustainably produced fish in particular. Social norms had significantly positive effect on intention to consume fish in general, but no effect on intention to consume sustainably produced fish. Behavioral control had no effect on behavioral intention. Interestingly, involvement negatively moderated the effect of attitudes on both intention to consume more fish and to consume more sustainably produced fish. Environmental awareness also negatively moderated the effect of attitudes on intention to consume more sustainably produced fish. It seems that attempts to create food product involvement and environmental awareness among consumers may have the opposite effect—a boomerang effect—than what conventional wisdom and much of the research on fish consumption indicates. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Boomerang Effect: the Convergence of National and Human Security

Security Dialogue ◽

10.1177/0967010602033004007 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 473-488 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

P. H. LIOTTA

Keyword(s):

Human Security ◽

Boomerang Effect

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Forró's Wars of Maneuver and Position: Popular Northeastern Music, Critical Regionalism, and a Culture of Migration

Latin American Research Review ◽

10.1353/lar.2011.0006 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 80-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jack A. Draper

Keyword(s):

Critical Regionalism

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Time for (a Reading) Community? The Border Literary Field(s) in the 1980s and 1990s

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos ◽

10.1525/msem.2009.25.1.47 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 47-70

Author(s):

Paul Fallon

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Mass Media ◽

Literary Field ◽

Critical Regionalism ◽

Literary Narrative ◽

National Literatures

This essay analyzes how, marginalized by national literatures and threatened by the rise of regional mass media in the 1980s and 1990s, northern Mexican border authors and their texts consistently concerned themselves with the temporalities of representation——particularly in literary narrative. Through their treatment of temporal issues, these writers directed themselves toward a local, transnational reading community and enacted a critical regionalism that articulates local signification within larger processes reshaping the role of literature in contemporary Latin America.

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The impact of super-spreader cities, highways, and intensive care availability in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-92263-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Miguel A. L. Nicolelis ◽

Rafael L. G. Raimundo ◽

Pedro S. Peixoto ◽

Cecilia S. Andreazzi

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Modeling ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Geographic Spread ◽

Boomerang Effect ◽

Entry Points ◽

Entire Country ◽

Major Factors ◽

The Impact ◽

Care Availability

AbstractAlthough international airports served as main entry points for SARS-CoV-2, the factors driving the uneven geographic spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil remain mostly unknown. Here we show that three major factors influenced the early macro-geographical dynamics of COVID-19 in Brazil. Mathematical modeling revealed that the “super-spreading city” of São Paulo initially accounted for more than 85% of the case spread in the entire country. By adding only 16 other spreading cities, we accounted for 98–99% of the cases reported during the first 3 months of the pandemic in Brazil. Moreover, 26 federal highways accounted for about 30% of SARS-CoV-2’s case spread. As cases increased in the Brazilian interior, the distribution of COVID-19 deaths began to correlate with the allocation of the country’s intensive care units (ICUs), which is heavily weighted towards state capitals. Thus, severely ill patients living in the countryside had to be transported to state capitals to access ICU beds, creating a “boomerang effect” that contributed to skew the distribution of COVID-19 deaths. Therefore, if (i) a lockdown had been imposed earlier on in spreader-capitals, (ii) mandatory road traffic restrictions had been enforced, and (iii) a more equitable geographic distribution of ICU beds existed, the impact of COVID-19 in Brazil would be significantly lower.

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