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contestation

NOUN
  1. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
    they were involved in a violent argument

How To Use contestation In A Sentence

  • It is still the case that there is no alternative, no political contestation about the future of society. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the contestations within the field of gender and sexual identity are important, they may also be symptomatic of larger conflicts.
  • Drawing on social movement and organizational theory, we explain how challenging parties not only mobilize to achieve their goals but how they are able to transform contestation into collaboration.
  • Lest I be misunderstood, I am not valorizing one form of cultural production over the other; rather I am noting a paradigmatic shift from resistance to contestation.
  • Democracy, too, born of dissensus and struggle, is about agonism - contestation over matters public which nevertheless accepts a consensus which avoids antagonism.
  • If subjective identification emerges from relationality, fractures and faultlines within the relational field may produce conflict and contestation within subjectivity.
  • But the book as a whole seems to respond to that hint of contestation. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Hall deals with the process of contestation and what is required to replace embedded ideas, established interests and institutions.
  • Think not vandalism; think 'the culture of contestation'. Times, Sunday Times
  • But in saying this, both partisans of the left and of the right agree that the West is characterized by contestation, by disagreement, and by questions more than by answers.
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