In this commentary, I make a case for recognizing and encouraging in human geography sort of mundane kindness that is unremarkable its ambition, but potentially profound impacts. Although it important to continue analyze the conditions have left so many us need acts compensate failures violence neoliberal academy, argue alongside critical scholarship we could room ‘ordinary’ does not necessaril...

A person is said to be `trust responsive' if she fulfils trust because she believes the truster trusts her. The experiment we report was designed to test for trust responsiveness and its robustness across payoff structures, and to discriminate it from other possible factors making for trustworthiness, including perceived kindness, perceived need, and inequality aversion. We elicit the truster's...

In his early works, Giorgio Agamben argues that some Auschwitz inmates practised a ‘silent form of resistance’ by shutting themselves off from the world until nothing could harm them. I argue this conception ‘bare life’ is both too abstract and individualistic. Agamben’s idea bare life’s resistance first neglects socio-historical context has produced particular instances it, effectively barring...

What motivates people to trust and be trustworthy? Is trust solely “calculative,” based on the expectation of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness only reciprocity? Employing a withinsubject design, we ran investment and dictator game experiments in Russia, South Africa and the United States. Additionally, we measured risk preferences and expectations of trustworthiness. Expectations of trustwo...

With the move to online and blended learning, there has been much focus amongst educators on webcam use in classes. Mandatory policies privileging of webcams as preferred form engagement disregard COVID-19 context – which students have had limited choice about learning or modes significantly undermine trust. This piece argues for adoption a pedagogy kindness, through teaching practices that are...