Contrary to dominant social work narratives which claim that social workers' legitimacy stems from their identity as creatures of the statute, radical social work has earned its recognition through an ability to grasp and utilise the transformative political power of the people we work with.
Contrary to dominant metaphysical traditions from the ancients through the moderns, there is no clear ontological gap that separates the human from all other animal life.
Contrary to dominant conservation narratives, the findings indicate that small-scale shifting cultivation practices by the Quilombolas have the potential to increase structural ecological complexity of the Atlantic Forest.
Both the physiocrats (the term physiocracy means the "rule of nature") and Hume studied the natural order of economic and social life and concluded, contrary to the dominant theory of mercantilism, that the directing hand of the prince was not necessary to produce order and prosperity.
Contrary to the dominant narrative, most tech companies aren't selling your data.
Badiou claimed, contrary to the dominant perception, that Deleuze is not so much a philosopher of the multiple as of the One.
It does this by demonstrating how, contrary to the dominant business discourse, increased regulation designed to protect the social and environmental interests of a range of stakeholders can also serve to enhance corporate economic performance and shareholder value.
The observed directionality was contrary to the dominant winds in Ontario, but it was in close concordance with one of the "principal routes" of the Atlantic bird flyway http://www.birdnature.com/upperatlantic.html through the study area.
This is contrary to the dominant perception that traditional small-scale livelihoods are unproductive, destructive, and the cause of environmental degradation, a depiction that is utilized to legitimize the establishment of strictly protected areas (Pedroso et al. 2009; Robbins 2012; Beymer-Farris 2013).
Contrary to expectations, large-dominant trees with the highest rates of growth seem to be the most severely affected by reductions in radial growth.
Indeed, Ms. Ruppel Shell's ideas run directly contrary to the powerful, even dominant opposing idea, which is that globalization, economies of scale, and factories in China make many goods affordable for people who wouldn't be able to afford them otherwise.
