This article takes sanctuary as a problematizing challenge to the state, coming into effect when political asylum fails or is denied. Sanctuary, it argues, offers form of protection that does not take legality its basis reference point, and in fact often subverts such legality. Thinking with Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (2011), this seeks understand kinds “individual” makes possible, what they ill...

Abstract In the decades of 1960s and 1970s, sound recording technologies—including radio cassettes—proliferated in Afghanistan reached transnational lengths. While state came to dominate these technologies, it could not prevent users from circumventing its censors with alternative perspectives discourses. This article highlights examples Farīda ʿUsmān Anwarī, a noted announcer, producer, journa...

In 2009, asbestos was finally banned in Korea, about 70 years after the first opening of asbestos mines under Japanese control. After having presented the history of asbestos industry, together with its regulations and health effects over time, we constructed narrative analyses of how the asbestos issue under the prevailing risk system was managed by whom and for what purpose, to provide contex...

Neither nationalism nor ethnicity is vanishing as part of an obsolete traditional order. Both are part of a modem set of categorical identities invoked by elites and other participants in political and social struggles. These categorical identities also shape everyday life, offering both tools for grasping pre-existing homogeneity and difference and for constructing specific versions of such id...