... allegiances.Globalisation studies highlight the contingency of the authority of the statefrom the late twentieth century onwards, in the face of competing authoritiesboth within the state (for example, indigenous ... everything makes senseby reference to authoritative texts, teachings and upbringing within the culture,which cultivates its own rationality. That meaning can be contested, but the uni-verse ... key to understanding the human constitution of society and thesociety’s constitution of the human. Essentially, humans are socially deter-mined and society-determining creatures through their...