In the public discourse and research literature, signifier “religious-Zionism” is usually viewed as denoting a specific group located midway between secular ultra-Orthodox Jews. This location does not turn religious-Zionism into residual category including whoever part of two others. Quite contrary. Religious-Zionism used to be with unique characteristics, values normative fullness its own. I a...

New wave public health places an emphasis on exhorting individuals to engage in healthy behaviour with good health being a signifier of virtuous moral standing, whereas poor health is often associated with personal moral failings. In effect, the medical is increasingly being collapsed into the moral. This approach is consistent with other aspects of contemporary neolibe...

Despite 9/11, “United We Stand,” and the USA Patriot Act, it seems that we are still afflicted by logocentrism and essentializing metanarratives. Decades of inoculation by deconstructive serums—first introduced by Jacques Derrida’s 1966 lecture at Johns Hopkins University entitled “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”—have failed to immunize us, readers and scholars...