However, when working with patients from BME communities, much depression work need not focus on translation of tools and words alone, but focus instead on negotiating an agreed path through multiple and contested perspectives on emotional distress [ 33].
A constructivist approach was adopted to allow for the potential for plurality of meanings and social realities [ 19], given the diverse and somewhat contested perspectives and practices of PP/PE that currently exist in the literature.
Issues are contested in this perspective, and some ideas gather traction as policy problems whereas others are left unaddressed (Hajer 1995; Roggeband and Verloo 2007).
Comparing stakeholders' perspectives, contested issues were exposed where community members, service managers and policymakers disagreed.
Ambiguity refers to the existence of divergent or contested interpretations and perspectives on the severity associated with a potential health threat.
Work with LRE in combination with LDA provided an alternative perspective that contested many of the supposed limitations of real-time qPCR.
Within the ECCE field too, the traditional definitions and measurements of 'quality', characterised by the input-process-output model, have been contested by the post-modern perspective that quality is 'subjective, value-based, relative and dynamic' and therefore 'needs to be contextualised spatially and temporally' (Dahlberg, Moss, & Pense, 1999).
Standpoint theories are mainly used to claim epistemic privilege over socially and politically contested topics on behalf of the perspectives of systematically disadvantaged social groups, relative to the perspectives of the groups that dominate them.
We use the terms "developed" and "developing" (and in respect of the latter also "emerging" and "transitional") for convenience, as these terms are widely used and their meaning generally understood, but we do so self-consciously, recognising that they are both complex and contested and constructed from a particular, northern/western perspective.
Such a view can be contested.
