scholarly journals Culture, politics and being more equal than others in COVID-19: some psychological anthropology perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 008124632110126
Author(s):  
Indira Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Structural Violence ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Psychological Anthropology ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Unethical Behaviour ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 pandemic changed how we view the world, human behaviour, and societal structures and institutions. The emerging subdiscipline of psychological anthropology is well placed to provide a perspective on the way individuals and communities are affected by and respond to the pandemic, as well as the fallout from government responses and prevention strategies. Moreover, this viewpoint enables insights into the workings of societal structures and agents of power in the context of a health crisis that is worsened by poverty, inequality, and structural violence. How communities respond and adapt to the ‘new normal’ are critical to holding governing structures accountable in situations where poor leadership, mismanagement, and unethical behaviour have been evident.

What kind of archaeology do we want? Introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Ion ◽  
John C. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Contemporary Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Contemporary archaeology seems to be marked by a questioning of the limits of interpretation, pushing for a radical change in the way we conceptualize our engagement with the past, the material and the world we live in: from archaeologies of affect, to new materialist approaches or calls to political engagement, practitioners seem to experiment with new questions and theoretical tools. As Artur Ribeiro points out in his contribution to the following collection of papers, ‘“new” has become the new normal’. But the question is, what are we trying to do with these experiments and what do we expect from archaeology in a world that is undergoing major changes and challenges?

scholarly journals Planning for 'The New Normal': Foresight and Management of the Possibilities of Socio-economic Spillovers due to COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Mohamed Buheji ◽  
Dunya Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
Economic Spillovers

The next normal will not look like any in the years preceding the COVID-19, a pandemic that changed many socio-economic situations around the world. In this paper, we shall explore the possibilities of the socio-economic spillovers that are expected in an unprecedented pandemic, studying their importance, how to deal with them to eliminate their "opportunity cost" on the next normal.A synthesis for the type of spillovers in the ‘new normal’, its future socio-economic challenges are presented to enhance the readiness to the coming era. In order to visualise the amount of the possibilities and opportunities of the socio-economic spillover, a framework is proposed, and then all the 480 possibilities are list. Tools are developed further to optimize the best socio-economic possibilities, which would different per the community condition and the stage of the new normal. The main implication of this work is that it would change the way any future pandemic or global emergency spillovers are evaluated or dealt with. This would establish a new path for future research in the ‘new normal guidance’ which are recommended as part of the conclusion. The framework and tools need to be further tested in more different conditions so that they can be globally generalised.

Evolution of human behaviour and societies

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ian Tattersall
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Living World ◽  
The World ◽  
Initial Appearance ◽  
Mental Symbols ◽  
The Way

Early in their book A story of us, the evolutionary psychologists Leslie Newson and Peter Richerson remark of very early hominins that “we can't know what it is like to experience life with a brain so very different from our own” (p. 34). These words neatly encapsulate an unfortunate reality that confronts anyone who tries to understand or reconstruct the evolution of human cognition: we humans are so completely imprisoned within our own cognitive style as to be incapable of fully imagining what was going on in the minds of extinct hominins who were behaviourally highly sophisticated, but who nonetheless did not think like us—which basically includes all of them. The reason for this difficulty is that we modern Homo sapiens are entirely unique in the living world in the way in which we manipulate information about our exterior and internal worlds. We do this symbolically, which is to say that we deconstruct those worlds into vocabularies of mental symbols that we can then combine and recombine in our minds, according to rules, to make statements not only about the world as it is, but as it might be. And evidence in the archaeological record for the routinely symbolic behaviours that are our best proxies for the apprehension of the world in this fashion is at best very sparse indeed prior—and even for some time subsequent—to the initial appearance of Homo sapiens.

scholarly journals Building Resilient Workforce in a Challenging World: The Way Forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Shukran Abd Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Issues ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The World ◽  
Fully Functioning ◽  
The Way

The field of Psychology which studies human in various contexts has pertinent roles in addressing the changes that people have to deal with during the COVID19 Pandemic. Psychology researchers and practitioners in the world over have played their roles in empowering individuals and community to build new normal lifestyle during and beyond the pandemic time. The objective of this paper is to discuss the role of Psychology in empowering individuals and community to relate to increasingly challenging world. It discusses the psychosocial issues in this challenging time that warrant attention by psychologists. The paper also highlights the importance of informed interventions in empowering individuals and community to become fully functioning workforce in changing and challenging world.

scholarly journals Viruses and insects

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
JACEK SZWEDO
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global State ◽  
Evolutionary Effect ◽  
World War ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Living under severe confinement and global state of war imposed by the emergence and worldwide very rapid spreading of the viral epidemic of zoonotic origin—coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the world is yet again experiencing a weird period. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War II, stressing every one of the countries it touches; it is creating devastating social, economic and political crises that will leave deep scars and will undoubtedly change the way we live and interact with each other. The number of known disease-causing viruses have been increasing in the last few decades and this trend is likely to continue. Therefore, it is legitimate to think about the evolutionary effect of viruses and their influence on the processes of organisms.

scholarly journals Fig: ure it Out: A Creative Psychoanalysis

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Murphy
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Way ◽  
Changing World

Sigmund Freud’s contribution to the field of psychology was significant, not because it was flawless but because it challenged conventional views of the time.   In the modern era, an individual’s view of the world is constantly being challenged due, in large part, to insurmountable information made available for public consumption. It’s an unrelenting bombardment of input that has made prominent the rift between facts and beliefs. This inquisitive article is an exploration of that conflict.   By applying Freudian psychology to one of the most confrontational and debatable topics of the 21st century—the environment—Fig: ure It Out reviews our environmental problems from one psychological perspective. Do we define truths by facts or by the way in which we cope with new information? It’s an example of human behaviour within a changing world.

scholarly journals MASS INCARCHMENT: REFLECTIONS BEFORE THE HEALTH CRISIS BY THE NEW CORONAVIRUS

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current Health ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Data from the National Prison Information Survey show that Brazil is the third country in the world in numbers of people deprived of their liberty. These data lead us to think that if the historical denunciations of race-based inequalities made by black movements are not enough, it is necessary to foster a rapprochement with historical and current academic and intellectual productions, of black and black thinkers, and committed non-blacks with the theme. This study is a review of the work Encarceramento em Massa by Juliana Borges. In view of the emergence of this social practice, we relate the problem of mass incarceration in Brazil (and the way it affects the country’s black population) with the current health crisis caused by the new Coronavirus (COVID-19). In general lines, from this context, a Necropolitical logic is reinforced, arising from the colonialist logic of putting the lives of some groups in constant contact with death, of making people live and letting them die

Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies of Suicide Behavior in the World and Possibilities of their Implementation in Slovenia

Crisis ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-194
Author(s):  
Claire Henderson ◽  
Marija Brecelj ◽  
Paola Dazzan ◽  
Mojca Dernovsek ◽  
Oscar Meehan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Suicide Behavior ◽  
The World

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

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