This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critique derived from Enlightenment’s specific conceptualization of reason as critiq...

"Women's language" is a critical cultural category and an unavoidable part of practical social knowledge in contemporary Japan. In this article, I examine the genealogy of Japanese women's language by locating its emergence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when state formation, capitalist accumulation, industrialization, and radical class reconfiguration were taking off. I show how par...

this commentary is a brief response to nir eyal’s argument that health policies should not make healthy behaviour a condition or prerequisite in order to access healthcare as it could result in the people who need healthcare the most not being able to access healthcare. while in general agreement due to the shared concern for equity, i argue that making health behaviour a condition to accessing...

Audience studies is without a doubt one of the most lively subfields within media and communication research. This has been the case for more than a decade. An interesting aspect of the field is that it is relatively communicative. Within the field, researchers from the social sciences and the humanities actually tend to speak to, and learn from, each other, even though research objectives and ...

Interweaving an Epidemic World: Fragments of Ethnography Primary Health Care in the era COVID-19 Pandemic In article I analyse responses Polish primary care practitioners to coronavirus pandemic. argue that doctors by – employing their skills and knowledge ad hoc started reconstruct professional world heavily influenced virus. employ a body literature focused on risk-taking, risk society, secon...

This paper emphasises the decolonial importance of geographical engagement with materiality language as an embodied and embedded relation. It shows how abstractions language(s) discrete, codified possessable objects participate in a ‘coloniality language’ that risks obscuring alternative geographies within, against beyond territorialised monolingualism colonial nation-state. Through considering...