Sentence examples for material and discursive from inspiring English sources

In the process, some of the key material and discursive issues that surround these 'imagined communities' are brought into focus.

Drawing on analysis of four focus groups involving parent educators, midwives, health visitors, anaesthetists and obstetricians in the NE of England, we explore the material and discursive construction of flexible therapeutic landscapes and pain relief.

The production of this new urban frontier also depends, like any frontier, on erasure: the material and discursive work of presenting "empty" landscapes as in need of improvement by non-local actors.

I propose a more self-reflexive approach to programming that considers the subjective, lived experiences of youth participants in relation to the material and discursive frictions that create these tensions.

Geographers have made a number of contributions to this evolving scholarship on disability and chronic illness, focusing particular attention on the complex relationship between embodied experience, and the material and discursive character of the social environment.

I argue that the apparatuses of scientific, engineering and technological engagement that were implemented by BC Hydro resulted in both material and discursive changes to nature in the Stikine.

This paper seeks to clarify and refine the assertion that vulnerability exists as both a material, condition and discursive construct.

In contrast to bio-psycho-social models of experience [ 70], which conceptualise biology, psychology and social factors as independent, the MDI model conceptualises material, intrapsychic and discursive factors as inseparable.

Even where Butler (1993) has attempted to think together the material and the discursive, her account has been criticised, for not allowing the body 'more of a drag on signification' (Alsop et al 2002, Jagger 2008).

The third looks at making sense of place-making as a way to highlight ontological and epistemic pluralism in studies of the material and social-discursive practices that create, govern, and transform places.

We focus on how the creative process is shaped through the instrumental and discursive use of material and digital resources.