Research on trust in e-commerce typically views trust as an important condition of successful commercial exchange. It aims to identify relevant factors of trust and establish how these influence potential buyers' decisions to interact with vendors. The aim is to provide ways of increasing trust. This paper questions the validity of this traditional approach to trust in e-commerce. It criticizes...

Brit Schulte posits that the sex working person is confronted by ever-increasing demand as well proportionately increasing criminalization and persecution. They also see representative of queer trans*-- truly, outsider subjectivity. The tension produced these coextensive increases creates conditions compel an (sex worker) to fight for end stigma marginalization. This necessary struggle they out...

We live in times of anthropogenic climate crisis. Or do we? This essay shows how “humanity” is a thoroughly modern fetish forged the bloodbath militarized accumulation and conquest after 1492. To say that Anthropos drives crisis implicates historical actor does not exist. But reality different. Humanity nothing. Specific groups humans make history – empires, classes, religious institutions, arm...

This essay integrates queer, anti-Blackness, Indigenous, and psychoanalytic theories of temporality to explore fetal personhood. It is argued that personhood reflects a form temporally-based affect regulation in which the fetus represents promise vulnerability tenuous future, rendering uterus only environment lawmakers seem protect. In face climate crisis, displacing annihilation anxieties onto...

This article examines the role of outer space technopolitics in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It explores how space, technological artefact global relevance, works as a postcolonial fetish modernity that is called upon to produce what it represents, is, reality technologically advanced Kazakh nation. The shows its project becoming spacefaring nation country reiterates major incentives have motivated ...

To remain competitive in the aggressive global market, Tourism industry and service providers face the necessity to strongly collaborate and share their expertise and resources, as well as their costs and risks. The paradigm of Virtual Enterprises (VEs) and smart organizations addresses the necessary base horizontal infrastructure needed to support such a collaboration framework. Designing a We...

In this paper we use a critically reflexive research approach to analyze our efforts to implement transformative learning in food systems education in a land grant university by applying scholarly tools to the teaching processes and its learning outcomes. As a team of learners across the educational hierarchy, we evaluate our efforts of creating transformational learning outcomes through facili...