0 the act of arguing or disagreeing about something:
There is still considerable contestation over various mining projects.
But we also need to recognize the limits of this measure of contestation, limits that dictate caution in our interpretation.
Centrifugal forces arose from within villages, besetting religious life with internal contradictions and contestation.
Democratic contestation seems to be particularly important in countering ethnic fractionalisation's tendency to worsen corruption in noncompetitive political environments.
The dialectic between resisting and reinforcing gender norms - the tension between contestation and consent - highlights the role of individual personality in navigating social organisation.
Many of these ambiguities of usage were devalued and minimized as language became a site of political and cultural contestation in the nationalist period.
In order to understand the politics of evaluation, therefore, we need to consider both its role within political discourse and its contestation within society.
She describes the ways in which older people's identities are subject to just as much contestation as younger people's.
Nor did they feel compelled to design political strategies based on organized contestation.
