One possible supportive intervention is an empowering discourse.
Feminists have coined the term 'rape culture' to describe the pervasiveness and acceptability of rape-supportive messages in media and popular discourse.
In DRC, as in many countries, gender norms and discourses are generally described as being supportive of the idea that women should be powerless and submissive [ 2, 35, 36], and should fulfill men's sexual needs.
Travelogue shots, perky editing and some popular rock music, as well as interview bits with such supportive celebrities as Woody Allen, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Silverman and Ricky Gervais, shrewdly enliven the brainy — but accessible — discourse.
I am highly supportive of free speech and opinions, and have appreciated the discourse and perspective voiced in Dan Kimber's articles in the past.
Erdogan's anti-Western foreign policy discourse -- and the fact that Ankara has been strongly supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the Arab Spring -- exacerbates the secular-versus-Islamist divide in Turkish society.
Many Christians, alarmed by the sectarian nature of Brotherhood discourse and by a spate of attacks on churches, are openly supportive of Sisi.
Figure 1 illustrates this chapter's area of discourse and its focus on the interfaces between natural resources, local stakeholders, supportive institutions, and the policy context.
Discourses among young women and adult men across the study populations were supportive of HAS.
Additionally, studies into leadership for learning in higher education have suggested that university teaching can be improved by encouraging collaboration and collegiality (e.g. Zakrajsek 2014), influencing the discourses of collegial networks (Roxa et al. 2011), and the provision of an "enabling environment" and "supportive workgroup" (Van Schalkwyk et al. 2015, p. 8).
