The struggles and contradictions they entail, and the powers they sustain, impose limits on our capacity to grasp their connections and to conceive alternatives.
Doughty demonstrates how exhortations to unity in legal forums served as a form of cultural control, even as people rebuilt moral community and conceived alternative futures through debates there.
Its short list included Frances Hardinge's Fly by Night (2005), "a richly conceived alternative world full of floating coffee houses and illicit printing presses," and Frank Cottrell Boyce's Framed (2005), about a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-obsessed boy who discovers a Renaissance masterpiece in a disused mine.
Feminists working in the pragmatist tradition rely on this prioritizing of community to rethink what it means to live in a democracy (Green 1999), to provide a feminist communitarian philosophy (Whipps 2004), or to re-conceive alternative ways of structuring societies.
A recently conceived alternative model suggests that humic acids consist of relatively small subunits that associate through weak molecular interactions.
Or is it a smartly conceived alternative to the museum's radical tear-down-and-rebuild plan, designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and scrapped nearly two years ago?
Local initiative is leading to change, but the locally conceived alternatives are too few and lack integrated approaches of technical agricultural research, economic analysis, and policy studies and reforms.
They seemed at a loss to conceive of alternative explanations for the gathering evidence, paleontologists say.
The dictator, even if he comes to pronounce himself "sick" of being one, as Mubarak did a few days ago, cannot conceive an alternative.
Even where ceremonialism emphasizes an enduring moral relationship to certain supernaturals, people are likely to conceive of alternative powers whom they might seek in times of need.
