Anti-gender actors in East-Central Europe (ECE) too claim that gender is an ideological colonization. In this article, contrasting these accusations with actually existing power relations of the global and European architecture, I discuss whether they are – at least to some extent based on social realities. Neither anti-gender campaigns nor rise illiberal forces ECE phenomena per se should not ...

Newman’s way to conversion was made possible by his overcoming of youthful convictions adopted from Protestant theologians (Luther, Cranmer, Bale, Fox, Sandys, Warburton, Isaac, and Thomas Newton), that the office pope related case Antichrist. Their accusation is summed up in statement pope, enacting enforcing ecclesiastical laws, has obscured true primary meaning God’s commandments thus establ...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

The present study is a part of a broader multisited field study on involvement of relatives in Danish psychiatry. The article aims to elucidate which political classifications of normality and mental illness that are displayed in two health political campaigns regarding anti-stigmatization and social inclusion and how such classifications co-constitute the subjectivity of individuals suffering ...

Many people with mental illnesses face challenges posed by stigma perpetuated by fear and misconception in society at large. This societal stigma against mental health conditions is present in everyday language. In this study we take a set of 14 words with the potential to stigmatize mental health and sample Twitter as an approximation of contemporary discourse. Annotation reveals that these wo...

The most prominent anti-realist program in recent metaethics is the expressivist strategy of treating ethical claims as expressing not beliefs but noncognitive attitudes of some sort. Its popularity stems in part from the fact that, by construing ethical claims as expressing noncognitive attitudes rather than beliefs, one can reject a realist ontology of morality without rejecting moral discour...

This essay rejoins Merinda Simmons’s protection of Russell McCutcheon’s critic vs. caretaker dichotomy in her response to my “Can a Critic be a Caretaker Too? Religion, Conflict and Conflict Transformation” (JAAR 2011). While Simmons aims to preserve McCutcheon’s binary as a purportedly benignly unavoidable opposition, I expose the perils of epistemic anti-realism at the heart of that dichotomy...

Anti-monopoly has been one of China’s most crucial policy shifts in recent years, exerting a major influence on internet giants. The anti-monopoly investigation into Alibaba 2020 is an example. purpose this study to uncover the frames used news stories about event and identify factors influencing production. Critical discourse analysis conducted by analyzing extracted from two influential media...