Sentences with word «contestation»

His books include «The Beautiful Language of My Century»: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945 — 1968 (2007).

What's important is that we think about the state both as a kind of public institution worth fighting over, and as just one of several players in a larger field of political contestation.

The abortion debate, as weary as we may be of it, is just the beginning of intensifying contestations over technical control and manipulation of the humanum.

After all, it is one thing to engage in intellectual contestation with a phenomenon deemed to be the wave of the future, quite another to do so with one of many cultural currents in play in the contemporary world.

The paper combines ethnography with Q - Methodology, to identify clusters of shared meaning around the way in which contestation surrounding the geoengineering ambitions of the HSRC invoked different interpretations about the role and nature of «nature» and human agency.

«Its critical contestation of socio - political conditions is a «determinate negation».

She is currently doing research on norm contestation.

Globalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures (2nd edition).

My question was prompted by considering a more pessimistic take on c — with so many cultural meanings floating around, the debate gets dragged even further into cultural contestation because now both sides can use the same science as a weapon without necessarily having any better of an understanding of it.

While it is inevitable that mutualist ideas will be subject to contestation on both Left and Right, given that mutualist models strike at the heart of many fundamental questions about the role of the state in a modern economy and society, they often require long - term investment beyond the lifetime of any single parliament or government.

We live increasingly in a culture in which language is suspect, a culture of contestation regarding meaning, a world of illusions and hyperreality.

They remain efficacious but are not amenable to public contestation.

Some have thought they could so securely identify a general and repeated pattern of religious history as to predict the outcome of a particular contestation of this sort.

It is this very powerful impression that eventually led me to the conclusion, stated in The Heretical Imperative, that a new contestation with the other world religions should be a very high priority on the agenda of Christian theology.

To date, only the research of Bruce Lincoln and Carolyn Walker Bynum offers notable contestation of these unproven assertions from the standpoint of gender analysis.

The reason for this conclusion is also essentially simple: I believe that at the core of the Christian tradition is truth, and this truth will reassert itself in every conceivable contestation — be it with the multiform manifestations of modern secularity, or with the powerful traditions of Asian religion awaiting theological engagement.

Both Shemites and Ishmaelites claim Abraham as their father, so why is there contestation over the land?

Based on fieldwork conducted in the Goulburn Valley, Australia, we argue that supermarket operations are contributing to community tensions through contestation over valued symbols and narratives about what desirable «progress» looks like.

Football contestation over a period 38 matches is too complex to be unpacked by simplistic analyses as those given by Champagne Charlie.

After the midweek contestation to the team, Catania's coach Luigi De Canio has called up 20 players for the away match...

Given this, I think that political theorists, especially radical democratic theorists, need to come up with less empty and, in some cases, less «exotic» theories of practice as say, ceaseless contestation.

It has been ten years since Taiye Selasi coined the term, and like all diasporic communities, Afropolitan spaces are sites of change and contestation rather than a reflection of a fixed concept or identity.

During the first months of popular protest in 2011, and as counter-revolutionary processes gained momentum later on, Tahrir Square acquired iconic status and became a field of contestation among different political groups and the state.

The data - driven utopia of Silicon Valley treats free markets as a background structure beyond contestation and sees the solution to social ills in terms of the optimal distribution of relevant information and incentives («nudges»).

Who counts as «foreign», «Rwandan», or «Tutsi» is the subject of change and bitter contestation.

The real problem is that much «Wall of Separation» rhetoric implies there is a clear, impregnable line between church and state activity when in practice over the twentieth century the principle of church - state separation has become one of lively democratic contestation and a degree of flexibility, allowing Catholics and other religious organizations to enter the public sphere and participate on the same terms as any other group.

Staff members are afraid that again seeds are being sowed for violent contestations that would endanger their lives and properties,» the communiqué said.

«Politics by its very nature generates heat and my leader, God will give you the wisdom to be able to raise the voice of APC in a way that reflects our collective consciousness about the will of the security of the country and yet engage in robust partisan contestations for power.

As part of his three - year research for a new book, Callais conducted in - depth interviews with a total of 60 ex-offenders, but he focused specifically on 13 former inmates for his presentation, titled «Ex-Offenders and Stigma Management: Redemptive Contestation.»

And yet, amidst all this frenzied contestation, one film was able to gain universal approbation.

Instead, it exhibits positive movements amid reflective contestations, rather than paralysis amid protracted discussions.

Laocoon invites meditation on the entropy of identity — perhaps under the weight of hegemony, perhaps under localized contestations, perhaps in preparation for rebirth.

They gesture towards Abstract Expressionism, Post-Minimalist contestations of objecthood, and allusions to the human body.

Conditioned by architecture and people that move through it, public spaces are often sights of contemporary contestations and clashing narratives.

The structural realities of inequality and the dynamic nature of identity construction set the stage for a condition of perpetual contestation, one that will be especially trackable through several upcoming projects.

This painting stands in contrast to the pixilated work of Gerhard Richter, for whom contestations in the medium seem primary.

Rather than following the practice of splitting subjectivity along gender lines this exhibition seeks to show important material connections between, as well as ironic contestations of gender definitions in the works of both men and women.

Moreover, the availability of historical precedent might imply less contestation (especially from climate skeptics), a cognitively different approach to what we might consider «sufficient evidence», and easier assessment of any given eruption against some objective measure of impacts.

Here I argue that an efficacious approach to defining this movement is to view it as a cultural contestation between a social movement advocating restrictions on carbon emissions and a counter movement opposed to such action.