REGULATING BIOSAFETY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS IN INDONESIA: LIMITS AND CHALLENGES by Muhammad Bahrul Ulum

“…After Indonesia ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which both specifically become the global guideline on how domestic biosafety policies are regulated, environmental and health issues are among the priorities which the use of GM crops contests to the precautionary approach. Amidst the insufficient scientific ground on its safety, GM crops' use is supposed to result in adverse impacts, and the suspicion over the safety of such a new cutting-edge agricultural technology ended with a series of rejections. …”
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REGULATING BIOSAFETY OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS IN INDONESIA: LIMITS AND CHALLENGES by Muhammad Bahrul Ulum

“…After Indonesia ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which both specifically become the global guideline on how domestic biosafety policies are regulated, environmental and health issues are among the priorities which the use of GM crops contests to the precautionary approach. Amidst the insufficient scientific ground on its safety, GM crops' use is supposed to result in adverse impacts, and the suspicion over the safety of such a new cutting-edge agricultural technology ended with a series of rejections. …”
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Alone With Goffman: Impression Management and the TV Series by Simon Beames, Søren Andkjær, Aage Radmann

“…The show features 10 contestants who are vying to outlast each other while living off the land. …”
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Regulating biosafety of genetically modified crops in Indonesia: limits and challenges by Ulum, Muhammad Bahrul

“…After Indonesia ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which specifically became the global guideline on how domestic biosafety policies are regulated, environmental and health issues are among the priorities that the use of GM crops contests to the precautionary approach. Amidst the insufficient scientific ground on its safety, GM crops use is supposed to result in adverse impacts, and the suspicion over the safety of such a new cutting-edge agricultural technology ended with a series of rejections. …”
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Digital Markets Act (DMA): A Consumer Protection Perspective by Anna Moskal

“…The DMA constitutes a part of a long-anticipated digital package of cross-cutting legislation proposed by the European Commission in 2020. …”
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Potting Christianity: Ecumenical Worship in Its Multicultural and Multi-Ethnic Context by Swee Hong Lim

“…In the gardening world, potting refers to the cultivation of plants by cutting, layering, and replacing nutrients-depleted soil with new soil in larger pots to accommodate the growth process. …”
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Harnessing Intellectual Property for Development: Some Thoughts on an Appropriate Theoretical Framework by Caroline Bongiwe Ncube

“…The paper begins by highlighting the inherent tensions in IP, which are caused by the various stakeholder interests that this body of law seeks to balance, and by the cross-cutting nature of IP. It contends that in order to more equitably balance the contesting rights of the creators and users, IP rights should be formulated and enforced so as to meet societal goals or serve public interest, be responsive to the economic environment, and take cognisance of the human rights claims of both creators and users. …”
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Solidarity and Recognition: Geographies of Counter-globalism by James Goodman

“…Globalism is a contested concept, but perhaps best understood as a spatial strategy, which disempowers those unable to transcend the fixity of place and social context. …”
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Solidarity and Recognition: Geographies of Counter-globalism by James Goodman

“…Globalism is a contested concept, but perhaps best understood as a spatial strategy, which disempowers those unable to transcend the fixity of place and social context. …”
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The Bondo Society as a Political Tool: Examining Cultural Expertise in Sierra Leone from 1961 to 2018 by Aisha Fofana Ibrahim

“…This paper focuses on the politics of the Bondo—the competition among social groups for an exclusive influence on the National strategy for the reduction of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). In the first part, this paper shows how the Bondo—a women’s only secret society—has become a site of contestation for not only pro- and anti-FGM/C advocates, but also elite male politicians who have, since independence in 1961, continued to use the Bondo space for political gains. …”
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Autopoietic Free Improvisation vs. Technototalitarian Regulation of Consciousness by Abolfazl Mohammadi

“…The elusive nature and the function of art occupy a highly contested territory within aesthetic philosophy since its inception. …”
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Re-establishing safer medical-circumcision-integrated initiation ceremonies for HIV prevention in a rural setting in Papua New Guinea. A multi-method acceptability study. by Clement Morris Manineng, David MacLaren, Maggie Baigry, Emil Trowalle, Reinhold Muller, Andrew Vallely, Patrick Gesch, Francis Hombhanje, William John McBride

“…Changes to penile bleeding emerged as a contentious and contested issue given its cultural significance in symbolizing initiates' transition from childhood to adulthood. …”
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Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation by Goodair, B, Reeves, AS

“…<strong>Background<br></strong> The effects of outsourcing health services to for-profit providers are contested, with some arguing that introducing such providers will improve performance through additional competition while others worry that this will lead to cost cutting and poorer outcomes for patients. …”

Erosion and Culture by Luke Zimmerman

“… [6] Kevin Fox Gotham, “Coastal Restoration as Contested Terrain: Climate Change and the Political Economy of Risk Reduction in Louisiana,” Sociological Forum 31, no. …”
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Social Work in 40 Objects: Teaching and learning in the language of things by Mark Doel

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Expertise in decision-making for large infrastructure projects: from UK trunk roads to High Speed Rail 2 by Dudley, G, Banister, D

“…It is only where there is a limited range of expert analyses that the bases for decision-making will remain relatively clear-cut. Over time the contested nature of expertise can significantly inhibit the construction of effective narratives, either for or against the project, and also make decision-making more complex and problematic. …”

Settling with waters. Design investigations for flood adaptation in the Sabana de Bogotá. by Claudia Lucia Rojas Bernal

“…The research investigates how current contested relations between low-income housing and environmental stress can be converted into a constructive interplay. …”
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How to move beyond epistemic battles: pluralism and contextualism at the science-society interface by Stefano Canali, Simon Lohse

“…Our analysis singles out a crucial factor that drives unhelpful disputes like these: the contested prioritisation of specific types of scientific knowledge, which are considered adequate for policy only if they meet predetermined standards. …”
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Crimes Against the "Other": Conceptual, Operational, and Empirical Challenges for Hate Studies by Neil Chakraborti

“…Hate crime remains a contested and highly complex area of study and policy, and the deeper we delve to find solutions and answers, the more likely we are to stumble across further problems and questions. …”
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Winning the peace locally: UN peacekeeping and local conflict by Ruggeri, A, Dorussen, H, Gizelis, T

“…It remains contested whether peacekeeping works. The impact of peacekeepers’ actions at the local (or subnational) level for overall mission success has lately received critical attention. …”