This article explores ‘bad’ sex in an age of same-sex marriage, through analysis the ‘homoradical’ as a rejection both hetero and homo-normativities. Drawing on qualitative data from 29 LGBTQ interviewees, considers resistance to discursive privileging marriage context Gayle Rubin’s theories respectability sexual hierarchies. These hierarchies constitute ‘charmed circle’ accepted practices whic...

Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international f...

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Epistemic constitutivism (EC ) holds that the nature of believing is such it gives rise to a standard correctness and other epistemic normative notions (e.g., reasons for belief) can be explained in terms this standard. If defensible, view promises an attractive unifying account normativity. However, EC faces forceful objection: constitutive standards are never enough generating reasons. This p...