Adopting the term from work of French-Algerian artist, Kader Attia, this essay reflects on what ‘repair’ offers for a reading decolonising practices knowledge, addressing cosmological besides historical. In contrast to ‘modern Western’ expectation repair, in which break or wound is rendered invisible, Attia advocates Japanese aesthetic philosophy kintsugi, repair even highlighted with gold dust...

This paper examines the changing meanings of the concept of ‘biology’, and of its opposition to ‘culture’, through an analysis of the ways in which anthropologists have sought to refute the idea that humanity is divided into distinct races. Efforts to redefine all extant humans as belonging to a single sub-species, or to replace ‘race’ with ‘culture’, only serve to perpetuate raciological think...

ion. For Perelman, a definition should always be regarded as an argument, and should be evaluated as an argument. A definition should not be categorized as either purely arbitrary or as purely descriptive accounts of fixed meanings. The approach to definitions taken in the new dialectic is directly at odds with these popular views. In the new dialectic, argumentation is always evaluated as used...

Through the application of life course theory to the study of sexual orientation, this paper specifies a new paradigm for research on human sexual orientation that seeks to reconcile divisions among biological, social science, and humanistic paradigms. Recognizing the historical, social, and cultural relativity of human development, this paradigm argues for a moderate stance between essentialis...

In the course of the past decade, the question of identity in the Turkish context has acquired an increasing significance. With the emergence of trends which placed the question of identity outside of the official realm, the people who live on this land began to stagger between local and national as well as traditional and modern identities. This has paved the way for the explosion of multiple ...