contestatory

Much post-modernist art has had a critical and contestatory function which is all too easily overlooked.

This contestatory space is one of active rupture, of placement and displacement.

Honig is most well known in political theory for her advocacy of a contestatory conception of democratic politics, also known as agonism.

Both mechanisms of domination and the contestatory and adaptive strategies of the excluded and marginalized are considered.

It is a contestatory energy that exists in-between cultural boundaries and is, in fact, a source of productive cultural creativity and new meaning-making possibilities.

In these circumstances perhaps, they did not reinterpret history in each passing generation: experience of the relationship did not produce contestatory reformulations of knowledge.

However, de Certeau differs from a theorist such as Foucault in how he locates contestatory acts in active resistance rather than in the manipulation of cultural material.

My ultimate objective however is to determine whether the arrival of these voices at the Centre was contestatory and defiant on the one hand or complementary and constructive on the other.

Indeed these contestatory projects at the Centre (most notably feminism) revealed that the intellectual concern of cultural studies at the Centre was not only a class-based inflexibility but also one which, moreover, focused on a profoundly male subject.

After considering some of the central questions in Canadian postcolonial theory, this paper argues that the much debated settler-invader model remains of value, not as a prescriptive imperative, but as a contestatory means of challenging our ingrained assumptions about Canada.

Radio Venceremos continues to emphasize news coverage, but prefers to offer what Mr. Galeas describes as reporting that is "balanced, professional and intelligent, not contestatory," and has occasionally used programming material from the Voice of America's Spanish-language service.

Anthropologist Johannes Fabian suggests that in the African context, such pop cultural expressions represent 'moments of freedoms', allowing for the conceptualisation and cultivation of alternative modes of being, that liberate the individual, albeit in fleeting, contestatory and conflictual spaces.