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CONTESTATION. The act by which two parties to an action claim the same right, or when one claims a right to a thing which the other denies; a controversy. Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. 762. |
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He rightly places these tensions in the context of virtually 14 centuries of contestation. After a century of near limitless corporate autonomy, the exposure of the estate's practices after 1997 and contestation over the replacement of a once untouchable board of trustees by different community action groups, including a teacher's union, the state attorney general, and ultimately the IRS revealed incredible tensions within native Hawaiian communities previously kept out of the public eye. She reads contemporary narratives of slavery both as counterhistories to the official history of slavery imposed by colonial and neocolonial powers and as complications and contestations of the themes of resistance and progress that dominate earlier narratives. |
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