New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change

Briggs, Daniel; Ellis, Anthony; Lloyd, Anthony; Telford, Luke

doi:10.1108/ijssp-07-2020-0268

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“…Previous studies about crowdfunding campaigns before the COVID-19 pandemic mainly focused on (1) the success factors of offline social causes campaigns in relation to where, whom, how, and when [ 19 ], (2) whether project’s goal and subject, geography, duration, number of backers and amount funded are successful determinants [ 73 ], (3) discussing crowdfunding performance with campaigns, crowd funders, crowdfunding platforms, and fund-seeker-related factors [ 74 ], (4) investigating the effects of backer endorsement and creator credibility on the success to crowdfunding campaigns [ 9 ], (5) exploring pledgers’ motivations such as funding duration, target amount, and word, video, and image counts [ 75 ], (6) the relationship between project funding and duration, and fundraising success [ 76 ], and (7) identifying the key drivers of a successful crowdfunding campaign through a machine learning approach [ 77 ]. As Briggs et al [ 78 ] mentioned that during COVID-19, the general public firmly kept a solid attachment to the pre-lockdown normality, but this “event” had changed and stimulated a social change to a more fundamental change.…”

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The Influence of Signals on Donation Crowdfunding Campaign Success during COVID-19 Crisis

Chiu

Mansumitrchai

et al. 2021

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In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic devasted public health agencies and the federal government across the world. Bridging the gap between underserved populations and the healthcare system, the donation-based crowdfunding campaign has opened a new way for suffering individuals and families to access broader social network platforms for financial and non-financial assistance. Despite the growing popularity of crowdfunding during the pandemic crisis, little research has explored the various signals that attract potential donors to donate. This study explores the effects of signaling theory on the success of a crowdfunding campaign for food relief launched in GoFundMe during which the United States was severely affected by the pandemic with a surged number of coronavirus infected cases from March 1st with 134 confirmed COVID-19 infected cases to July 29th with 4,295,308 infected cases according to World Health Organization. The following results show that the three different signal success measures are important to the success of crowdfunding campaigns: (1) signals originating from the campaign (Title, Description, Spelling Error, Location, and Picture); (2) signals originating from the fundraiser (Social Network, and Update); and (3) signals originating from the social interaction of the fundraiser with the crowd (Comment, Follower, and Share). These findings provide insight and bring additional knowledge contribution to the crowdfunding literature.

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The Influence of Signals on Donation Crowdfunding Campaign Success during COVID-19 Crisis

Chiu

Mansumitrchai

et al. 2021

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“…For example, people limited their major purchases to items that fulfilled basic needs (Hobbs, 2020) and avoided unnecessary purchases of luxury goods (Tuncer, 2020). Lockdowns also discouraged going-out, but online shopping continued, implying a strong desire for consumption (Briggs et al, 2020).…”

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Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly disrupted progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Accordingly, the UN has underscored the need to design short-term responses to halt and reverse the adverse effects of the current COVID-19 crisis. However, some researchers have scrutinized the feasibility and note the potential counterproductivity of particular SDGs in our post-pandemic world. This perspective paper holds a more hopeful outlook and contends that the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to prompt efforts to carry out the UN's 2030 Agenda. In this regard, this paper engages the theme of “sustainable consumption” in the context of COVD-19 by discussing two perspectives or bodies of work-supply chain sustainability and post-colonial theory. Supply chain sustainability is discussed as one such promising, though underutilized practice, that could potentially catalyze progress toward SDG 12. Likewise, post-colonial theory, a body of knowledge rarely drawn upon in sustainable consumption and SDG conversations, is presented to call attention to some of the gaps in the orthodoxy of sustainable consumption approaches, practices, and theoretical perspectives. This perspective paper's novelty lies in the fact that it calls attention to the promise of the SDGs and the limits of our current theoretical frameworks related to sustainable consumption. For these reasons, these bodies of work can provoke additional questions and avenues for future research.

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“…Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, education policy and NPIs were discussed in a more traditional way of social inequity and citizens' future expectations (e.g., Breslin, 2021;Briggs et al, 2020;cf. Liveriero, 2020).…”

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Equity vs. Ethic Literacy – Socio-Educational Dilemma in the Case of Pandemic Finland, Autumn 2020

Loima¹

2021

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This case study aimed to comprehend socio-educational policy in the light of pandemic ethic literacy in Finland. Consequently, methodologically the official, public, and ethic research data were triangulated to analyze the Ministry’s understanding on educational equity in Finland. Discussion involved global pandemic ethic principles (transparency, participation, review and revisability). Hermeneutic methodology revealed imbalances. Ministry of Education and Culture failed regionally, as well as qualitatively, in its quantitative by-the-book policy. As the main finding, pandemic ethics were generally ignored by the Ministry. Ethic principles were not recognized – or were neglected. Furthermore, Ministry’s decision-making was unconditional, instead of being participatory and revising. Lacking transparency was revealed in rhetoric of “several” children, or probable “likelihood”, without argumentation. However, the policy could have been revisable with increasing evidence. Epistemic imbalances and hermeneutic injustice occurred regionally and qualitatively. Those involved all, both the vulnerable, and gifted pupils. Finally, the policy created inequity, adding ageist and racist elements in southern country. Moreover, the Ministry repeatedly acted against its vision. While Ministers, and responsible authorities, should update their “hidden” curriculum, regional policies and Covid-19 variants deserve further studies.

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New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change

Cited by 49 publications

References 27 publications

The Influence of Signals on Donation Crowdfunding Campaign Success during COVID-19 Crisis

The Influence of Signals on Donation Crowdfunding Campaign Success during COVID-19 Crisis

Reflections on Sustainable Consumption in the Context of COVID-19

Equity vs. Ethic Literacy – Socio-Educational Dilemma in the Case of Pandemic Finland, Autumn 2020

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