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This paper aims to help understand the predictors of customer satisfaction with respect to online shopping in India, by using the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). This research validates perceived enjoyment, social influence, social media interactions, reverse logistics and pay on delivery (POD) mode of payment as new predictors of customer satisfaction in online shopping. Data was collected through a self-administered and structured questionnaire targeting online shoppers in North India states. A sample of 424 online shoppers was considered validated in this research using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings of the paper revealed that social influence, reverse logistics and POD mode of payment had a significant positive impact on customer satisfaction. Perceived enjoyment emerged as the strongest predictor of online shopping. However, social media interactions emerged as an insignificant predictor of customer satisfaction. This research is one of initial endeavour in online shopping that empirically validated POD, social media interactions, social influence, reverse logistics, and perceived enjoyment by using the SDT. Through this study, online retailers preparing to expand their operations in India have important insights regarding the drivers of online shopping leading to customer satisfaction. This in turn will help in developing marketing strategies and their implementation to target the huge untapped market.
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Through the analysis of the motivations for participation in collaborative platforms as an obtainer or as a provider, the paper provides new evidence on the collaborative economy in Europe. For that purpose, we analyze a pan-European sample of 14,050 citizens from 28 countries. The study, which applies an empirical prediction methodology through a structural equation modelling (SEM), provides two main contributions to the literature. Firstly, economic and usefulness motivations predict the obtaining and provision of goods and services through collaborative platforms in Europe. Secondly, non-monetary exchanges also predict the provision of collaborative platforms. Our results also have implications for territorial development. Understanding the motivations between obtainers and providers can foster collaborative exchanges of essential resources, especially at a small-scale and at local levels.
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This article presents audio found poetry as an approach which positions participants’ voices in the heart of the inquiry. The methodology was influenced by radio autoethnography and audio papers where theory, voices, and sound are combined to create a new aural experience—an approach that argues that it is essential that the audience listens rather than reads. These two audio found poems share the voices of 14 participants from Australia, United Kingdom, North America, and Mainland Europe, interwoven with the author, talking about their relationship with underwear. Participants recorded their own story. Each voice was edited using Audacity (a software program) and then different voices were joined together. Two poems emerged. Audio 1: Practical Underwear shares stories from day-to-day underwear preferences and stories of those who do not wear underwear. The stories in Audio 2: Dress Code Red are connected to sexuality and political aspects of underwear. Framing the work through the lens of new materialism creates a space of agency for an entanglement between the underwear and the human voices speaking about it, which in turn affects the embodied experience of the listener. What stories could your underwear tell?
Keywords: radio autoethnography, audio found poetry, underwear, arts-based research, new materialism
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In France, the reform of the individualized transport sector comes along with the emergence of new digital platforms, around which new mobility services are being developed. The expansion of these new players and the specific characteristics of their economic model are causing many transformations. They test the traditional foundations of the economy of the involved activities, the structure of the industry and that of the market. The dysfunctions that are inherent to these developments have repercussions on the socio-economic conditions of the drivers and their work layout.This article discusses the effects of service digitization in the individualized transport sector in France. It shows how the aggregation of technological resources and the changes in the political and economic environment contribute to the emergence of a new order in which business practices are being deployed, affecting the structure of trades, employment relations and working conditions.
Keywords: transports publics individualisés, taxi, VTC, économie numérique, plateforme, Uber, travail indépendant, public individualized transports, taxicab, digital economy platform, Uber, self-employment
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In this essay I examine how William Basinski's loop-based recordings reveal and extend the aesthetic concurrence between technological, biological, and human duration, memory, and the perception of the industrial temporal object. The examination of how looping stresses a composition's flow in the perception of a time-based media object and the exchange between memory and the machine as a performance and configuration of the mental sphere, pursues a line of thought that brings together ideas about repetition in Basinski's compositions as a sonic reformatting of the mental sphere and the technology of Basinski's slow, analog, compositions contra the accelerated digitalism of twenty-first-century life.
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This special issue about race, honour, culture, and violence against women in South Asian Canadian communities is proffered as an entry point to a wider, multilayered discussion about race, culture, gender, and violence. It hopes to intensify a debate on gendered violence that could tie in with analysis and commentary on individual killings in family-related sites, murders of racialized women and girls in public sites, and other forms of violence against women and girls in society. We encourage readers to consider how to understand the landscape that South Asian Canadian women and girls are confronting, while also asking critical questions about the wider settler colonial system in which we all participate as we fight gender-based violence.
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The Canadian Anthropology Society is working to address sexual harassment and violence at institutional and community-based settings where anthropologists undertake their work. In 2021, the newly formed Sexual Harassment and Violence Working Group held a roundtable at the CASCA conference to start a conversation about sexual violence among CASCA members and to workshop best practices to prevent, disrupt, and respond to incidents of sexual harassment and violence that CASCA members may experience or observe. Here, the Working Group summarizes the process of planning, implementing, and following up the roundtable, focusing on specific actions taken by the organizers to ensure a safe conversational space before, during, and after the event. We demonstrate how the roundtable aligns within the larger framework of CASCA's institutional history and future. The goal of this report is to provide a framework for convening difficult conversations in professional settings, especially in an online environment. We provide recommendations to this end, and emphasize the need to hold further conversations to combat the air of silence that remains, even in a post-#MeToo world, surrounding sexual violence in anthropology.
Keywords: anthropology, #metoo, researcher safety, sexual harassment, sexual violence, anthropologie, #metoo, sécurité des chercheurs, harcèlement sexuel, violence sexuelle
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Assisted Living for adults with disabilities is a recent subject inboth Brazilian legislation and public debates. Although stillstigmatized by the idea that those who seek different livingarrangements for their children would be abandoning them, the concernwith both the autonomy of people with disabilities and the well-beingof the caregivers has prompted this theme to gain force in public andprivate spheres. Drawing from an ethnographic work with mothers ofadults with cognitive disabilitiesy from Porto Alegre, Brazil, whoconstituted a group to demand governmental action regarding assistedliving facilities, I propose a reflection on how such plea enables afurther discussion on the way disability and care are enacted. I arguethat by thinking of their trajectories through the care practices theyentail, one can track the moralities surrounding their experience ofmotherhood and how they are telling of the way disability is dealt within this specific time and place. Situating their claim within broaderdebates on institutionalization, I stress how their plea cannot beunderstood without a critical stand on ableism and the invisibility anddevaluation of care work.
Keywords: Assisted Living, Cognitive Disability, Care, Brazil, Institutionalization, résidence avec services, handicap cognitif, soin, Brésil, institutionnalisation