fear of death through enemy constructions...widening security agendas articulate the inability to fix threatening forces and the referent object which receives the threats... thus creates a condition of ontological insecurity – the impression of chaos. Even though I agree with Huysmans about the angst produced by the uncertainty of not knowing the possible threats, the scope he gives to ontolog...

Abstract We introduce two concepts—social certainty and social doubt—that help to articulate a variety of experiences the world, such as shyness, self-consciousness, culture shock, anxiety. Following Carel's (2013) analysis bodily doubt, which explores how person's tacit confidence in workings their body can be disrupted undermined illness, we consider an individual's faith themselves agent, to...

In September 2012, a group known as Australia 21 called for a rethink on the prohibition against illegal drugs. If the response from Australian Federal, State, and Territory Governments is any guide, the call fell on deaf ears. In recent years, even scholarly debate about the merits of prohibition appears to have subsided. This paper acknowledges that social and financial costs of the prohibiti...