Sentence examples for or contestation from inspiring English sources

In Howson's [ 9] analysis, hegemonic masculinity dominates all other gender practices, and masculinities and femininities are constructed as relations of alliance or contestation.

Although strategic approaches may facilitate coherent policy framings, targeted actor coalitions, and opportunities for collaborative action, such approaches are often unable to adequately capture the difficult policy trade-offs or contestations that are required to further overall adaptive capacities of cities.

This case demonstrates how policy change can occur in the absence of strong political imperatives or ideological contestation, and the ways in which a collective process was used to achieve successful outcomes.

Such a study could for example investigate, through anthropological and other qualitative methods, how both closure and inclusiveness (or their counterparts, contestation and exclusion) are achieved in practices of governance.

In either case, the aim is to make transparent the assumptions that are the most significant either because they are open to contestation or because they may help identify possible options (once the assumptions are made explicit).

Legal proceedings serve in effect as "agonistic fields" (Latour and Woolgar 1986) or fields of contestation, in which experts debate the merits of competing representations and the techniques that produced them.

3. Characterise consumers and the ways in which consumers respond to information about food risk and benefit, taking into account gender and other relevant socio-demographics as well as important qualities of the information itself and the context in which it is given, e.g. the expression of uncertainty, existence of multiple information sources, contestation or conflict.

In other words, it is not granted that citizens will have access to these particular processes of governance, and if they have access, it is not given that they can exert any substantial influence, since the course of affairs is already largely determined whether in the allowable repertoire of action or in the possible contestation of knowledge.

This is the first election since independence where you have keen contestation and equally matched contestants.

Here, further projects could benefit form, and in turn perfectly complement, studies of biopolitics that explore struggles and negotiations, as well as practices of subversion and contestation, at the micro- or meso-level of organization (see for instance Epstein 2007; Raman and Tutton 2010).

The prospective "slippery slope" of secession -- in which continually smaller units of affiliation declare their independence from larger ones -- is forestalled by the apparent desire of a faction at the state level simply to consolidate their power and enjoy a "free hand" to impose apartheid policies and severe austerity measures that are immunized against contestation either from above or below.