The fantasy here is that there is some way to transcend all the aggravation of political division and contested interests.
These stakeholders expressed varied and contested interests, differed in their use and interpretation of evidence, and promoted different malaria control policies, as we describe elsewhere [ 46].
Heidbrink, Lauren (2014) Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested interests.
Specifically, the book shows the category of the "Indian Muslim," upon which the state of Pakistan was founded, to be highly problematical, loosely knitting together a wide range of competing and contested interest groups.
Of course the terrain of consumer protection or health and safety will always be hotly contested among the different interests involved.
The real struggle, we all know, is on the ground and in the organized communities, where power resides and interests are contested.
It's that sense of imminence and immediacy that has made the singularity such a passionately contested proposition, and attracted interest – and investment – from extremely wealthy and intelligent individuals, as well as Google and Nasa, which have each put money into the Singularity University (co-founded by Kurzweil) near San Jose.
The case, however, was caught up in a logjam of similar cases contested by mining and farming interests.
Justice Gische named Jo Ann Douglas, a lawyer for children in highly contested divorces, to represent the interests of Andrew Giuliani, 15, and his sister, Caroline, 11.
Carbon pricing is one way of achieving this, but has run into difficulties as taxes are often unpopular and schemes to reduce carbon through emissions trading are often contested by businesses and other interests.
In this rich ethnography of the emergence of the automotive regime in contemporary China, Jun Zhang traces masterfully the contested evolution of the competing interests of state control, consumption regimes and freedom.
