Sentence examples for contested narratives from inspiring English sources

As the current contests over Confederate monuments exemplifies, Americans are accustomed to contested narratives about race and history fixating on the American South.

By considering generations of false narratives, Robertson led me to think more critically about my role as an oral historian and the relationship between white privilege, ethics, and accountability and transparency (as an outsider) when approaching contested narratives.

The act of swimming as an emplaced and performed therapeutic encounter is highlighted along with a more critical discussion of contested narratives associated with risk and respect.

Please join the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability for their annual conference, The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past.

Reports of various kratom-related deaths have fueled a hotly contested narrative about the deadly risks associated with the botanical drug.

We give students a clear but contested narrative that makes sense of the major features of American history while highlighting the diversity of our experience".

Crucially, what is being imposed upon our learning is only one version of a contested narrative, in which one group ultimately has its way, often based not on fact but on relative power.

The publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958 not only contested European narratives about Africans but also challenged traditional assumptions about the form and function of the novel.

That footage, along with other surveillance videos from cameras in the Prospect-Lefferts neighborhood, presented a contested visual narrative of the shooting and its aftermath.

It seems important to also allow for the acknowledgement and understanding of the complex and uncertain nature of being a boy and man, of the ever present gap, fraught and contested, between subjective narratives and idealised masculinity, whatever it may be in a particular cultural and social context.

Watch a trailer for Sicario 2. With a narrative as contested as that of the US-Mexico border, one would hope that film-makers would be mindful of the plot devices they fling about in the region.