contestation

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Bushnell’s and Azzarello’s deaths both resonate with and differ from these instances of self-killing — which are in large part responses to colonial and state violence, contestations of unlivable structural inequalities — in significant ways.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

In these contestations, Hamilton, the head of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis group, returns to the decadal survey: It’s a fairly democratic process, and it repeatedly put MSR on top.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

But the postcolonial world, to quote a man more serious than most participants at Documenta 15, is not “a vulgar state of endless contestations and anomie, chaos and unsustainability.”

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

Because millennials are still with us, social media continues to be awash in contestations about who Disney princesses are and what they can look like.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2018

After several contestations, pope Urban V., many years after his death, granted his body to the Dominicans to carry to Paris or Toulouse, as Italy already possessed the body of St. Dominick at Bologna.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban