Using scientific articles and reports as primary sources I trace the uptake and contestation of bold claims made by atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen a decade ago.
These claims involve contestations over interpretations of history which, besides their oral forms, materialize in paperwork such as official communications, community records, and cadastral maps, as well as in visual representations, internal statutes, and deliberate history writing.
Indeed, it would be useful to analyse the TOL as a theory, and to see how different philosophical accounts of theory interpret TOL claims and contestations, but pragmatic concerns guide our choices here.
Which scenario that eventually will guide the future of Europe is – of course – a matter of politics, political contestations and the claiming of rights.
Only bodies that tie representatives into a structure of political accountability – of contestation and public deliberation – can claim to have institutionalised political equality and protected individuals' dignity.
This is the first election since independence where you have keen contestation and equally matched contestants.
(Concerned with practical problems, they likewise opposed philosophical claims to stand above the contestations of mere mortals).
It's only natural that political claims of this kind will be subject to contestation.
"The entire point of FONOPS is to show consistent contestation of what you would consider excessive or illegal maritime claims," Poling said.
The overall settlement went through phases, with the ideal of an "ivory tower" coming into its own in the late 19th centuryk, then broken open by claims of relevance (already in and after the first World War), and contestation about relevance from late 1960s onward.
Halliday argues that some registers are open to more ideological contestation than other registers because of the features of their context of situation, a claim which invites linguists to explore the relationship of particular registers to particular ideologies.
