In containing ideas about individual competence and responsibility, the quote illustrates how two competing discourses – 'collectivising quality' versus 'self-governing health' (explained in more detail below) – can coexist in a single narrative.
The competing discourses of responsibility reveal the attraction of seeking to develop such technologies through multidisciplinary teams.
However, in the UK there are multiple competing discourses, so it's easy to ignore the government's cynical blather.
Competing discourses about the urban edge relate in different ways to concerns about abrupt urban containment and to practices that act on these concerns.
Jasmin Zine, a Canadian scholar, once observed that not just our actions but also our very identities are constantly being shaped by dual, competing discourses that surround us.
Silver, J. J., Gray, N. J., Campbell, L. M., Fairbanks, L. W. & Gruby, R. L. Blue economy and competing discourses in international oceans governance.
Starting with an exploration of competing discourses of property and human rights in international law, this article considers the interplay of legal, anthropological, and political discourses in delivering and/or denying indigenous peoples rights to their traditional territories.
In addition to the social practices that contribute actively to a nation's image, national cultures are characterized by competing discourses through which people construct meanings that influence their self-conception and behaviour.
We argue that the stakeholder interaction in this study reflects competing discourses in which corporate actors prioritize the building and maintaining of identity and symbolic capital rather than an active collaboration to solve the ongoing issue of the waste.
This seminar explores how the role of competition between individuals and teams in sports films relate to the competing discourses on race, gender, class, and sexuality in society at large.
