Sentence examples for competing discourses from inspiring English sources

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.

However, in the UK there are multiple competing discourses, so it's easy to ignore the government's cynical blather.

The competing discourses of responsibility reveal the attraction of seeking to develop such technologies through multidisciplinary teams.

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.

Competing discourses about the urban edge relate in different ways to concerns about abrupt urban containment and to practices that act on these concerns.

The sustainable development process has sought to build agreement among competing discourse coalitions.

That all changed in the third century C.E., when a handful of Platonist philosophers Plotinus, Origen, Porphyry, and Iamblichus began to produce competing systematic discourses that ordered the realm of spirits in moral and ontological terms.

Medhurst's framing of the competing bat-discourses as the struggle to establish "legitimacy" or "deviancy" sharpens and specifies the issues at stake in preferring one version of Batman over another, and suggests that homophobic resistance may account for the insistence, made by both artists and fans, on particular definitions of the Batman character's masculinity.

A counter argument has been made that these contradictions represent Darwin's complex synthesis of competing strands of discourse about species available in the existent literature of the time (Sloan 2009b).

Not only in Scotland, as reported by Tisdall and Riddell [ 46], but also in many other policy contexts relevant for children with disabilities, different strategies and discourses are competing with each other.