This article provides a brief historical overview of loss and damage at the climate change talks, and examines the key discourses defining this issue between 2011 and 2013 by analyzing submissions by lobbying blocks and member countries, and final negotiated texts.
Thirty randomly selected articles were examined (SH) to identify the key discourses; these became thematic categories in the initial coding frame.
Our aim was to explore the key discourses surrounding anal sexual practices among this age group and to elicit detailed accounts of specific experiences.
Next, situational/relational maps and social worlds maps were created to aid the analysis and the development of the overarching themes and discussion, by shifting the focus towards the key discourses, structures and conditions that characterise the situation of enquiry [ 21].
Childbirth has become an axis of self-doubt [ 46] with many women having lost confidence in their ability to birth without intervention and consequently women rely on expertise to validate 'safe choices' as evidenced by the woman whose choice of an elective section was validated by her doctor [[ 10], p398] Safety is a therefore a key narrative discourse that pervades.
The document analysis gives some initial indications about historical developments and evolutions, key events, discourses, actors and formal rules of the game.
Authority gives actors the productive power that is classification, conceptualisation and categorisation the key links between discourse, knowledge and power (Ibid., pp. 110 111).
Tumblr is even credited with bringing about the resurgence of the animated gif - an image format that until recently had been seen as tacky and outdated, but is now a key component of discourse and comedy online.
As Molyneux et al have pointed out [ 14], key to this discourse is the conceptual framework within which a decision to participate is framed.
This emerging practice also highlights a key point for discourse and policy work addressing the stem cell tourism market – the location of the intervention is not of central importance; its unproven nature however is.
