(1) In that sense the decision to make the award - and the motivation for doing so - was inevitably going to be subject to the same intensely partisan contestation process.(2) This has coincided with an increasing methodological interest in contestation , ambiguity and uncertainty.(3) ideological contestation over social policy in the European Union(4) Potentials for human communication allow discussion, contestation , and the use of the human imagination to stimulate innovation and conflict resolution.(5) Democratic politics is bound to the terrain of dispute and contestation .(6) Because in the past nobody believed that the two-party contestation becomes a primary feature of party politics in Japan.(7) Left alone, they would have evolved in unpredictable ways through local negotiation and contestation over the course of time and through the formation of a central state.(8) The specific circumstances here are a bit murky, and will be subject to contestation .(9) But u2018family valuesu2019, once a matter of stated political doctrine, have now receded from the realm of political contestation to become naturalized.(10) a self-conscious contestation of the government(11) It has encountered contestation and some debate.(12) Far from relegating religion to the private sphere, it makes it an explicit component of politics and very much part of the public sphere of debate and contestation .(13) If subjective identification emerges from relationality, fractures and faultlines within the relational field may produce conflict and contestation within subjectivity.(14) It is only through ongoing debate and contestation that any nation that I want to inhabit will be produced.(15) Hall deals with the process of contestation and what is required to replace embedded ideas, established interests and institutions.(16) We present a case study that deals with controversy and contestation over three cultural productions in the past 10 years.