The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to promote fiction that
addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.
Ko's timely, assured debut received major critical acclaim before it was even published, as Barbara Kingsolver awarded it the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for Fiction (given to a novel that
addresses issues of social justice).
The mission of the Prize — given to a first - time novelist — is to «advocate serious literary fiction that
addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.»
This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that
addresses issues of social justice.
The award annually honors a doctoral dissertation that «manifests academic excellence, originality, and methodological, theoretical, and empirical rigor, and that
addresses issues of social justice and equity in an international context.»
Mudbound won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, a prize fully - funded by author Barbara Kingsolver, awarded to previously unpublished first novels that
address issues of social justice.
Not exact matches
(21) They must be hospitable to the whole family
of God, enabling the family members in their diversity to
address with integrity the whole range
of issues that divide us,
issues of Christology and ecclesiology,
issues of culture, race, and gender,
issues of social justice and the integrity
of creation.
By Jon Sparkes With terms like «
social justice» and «tackling inequality» being used by all main political parties in recent years, and the political rhetoric increasingly shifting to the need for
addressing the «root causes»
of social issues, one would be inclined to believe that homelessness, one
of the most acute forms
of poverty, is in decline.
A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and
social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal
issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to
address issues of inequality.
It provides a brief overview
of key socio - ethical
issues and discusses the application
of social justice to
address the challenges.
She is involved with and an advocate for community partnerships aimed at overcoming the barriers
of access to mental health services as a means
of addressing social justice issues that are prominent in our society.
In addition to this reflection, it is crucial that our institution actively recruits faculty and supports curricula that directly
address issues of race, urban inequality, ethnic studies, and
social justice.
By failing to take the need for states to
address this problem seriously, small - schools advocates seem to ignore the broader
issues of social justice that they work so hard to
address in their own schools.
So far REMIX has presented the film OT: Our Town, which documented a Compton, California high school's production
of the American stage classic, Our Town; and has hosted a conversation about hip - hop in education, and the ways it can be used as a tool in classrooms to
address issues of literacy, race, and
social justice.
By analyzing and
addressing issues of equity and
social justice, we believe artists and arts educators can make unique contributions to education and
social change.
A passion for
issues of equity and
social justice is a hallmark
of HGSE and is shared by students in AIE, where we explore the particular ways in which the arts can help help
address these
issues.
As the son
of an educator and activists, El - Mekki had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would
address issues relating to
social justice, equity and educational opportunities.
Critical pedagogy extends critical theory - the neo-Marxist examination
of the relationship between power and culture, aimed at
addressing issues of class, race, gender, and
social justice through the remaking
of societal institutions - to the realm
of schools.
She was selected to participate in Leadership for Learning, an innovative, cohort - based program that emphasized the link between leadership and learning, as well as the development
of leaders willing and able to
address and redress
issues of equity and
social justice.
When we introduce our teacher candidates to critical literacy in our English language arts program, some
of them are reticent to
addresses issues of gender, equity, and
social justice with students in the early years.
APP prepares the type
of public school leaders who are needed most — those who are committed to
social justice and have the skills to galvanize communities to
address issues of educational equity.»
The questions, although broad, do not necessarily
address social justice issues like the
social policies that influence graduation requirements, the aspirations
of students with special needs, including those diagnosed with mental health and behaviour
issues, the needs
of ESL students arriving during their teenage years, etc..
As the son
of an educator and activists, I had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would
address issues relating to
social justice, equity and educational opportunities.
Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have
addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a
social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack
of land rights and
social oppression.
Instead
of viewing poverty, debt, human rights,
social justice, environmentalism and women's rights as isolated
issues, Maathai has deftly
addressed their connectivity and the relationships between them.
We favor investments such as those mitigating the impacts
of fossil fuels in energy - intensive industries, promoting energy efficiency, or otherwise
addressing environmental and
social justice issues.
Deeply influenced by their Southern roots, both artists mine the landscapes around them for found objects (a nod to Rauschenberg's «combines») and
address issues of ecological and
social justice.
His curatorial projects have
addressed issues of collaboration, experimentation,
social justice, and archival practices in contemporary art.
This year's festival will directly
address several pressing
issues that are part
of America's current sociopolitical landscape through performances and accompanying events, with highlights including an artist talk with dancers Jon Boogz and Lil Buck centered on dance as a tool for
social justice and prison reform.
Jenny Holzer is known for making work that
addresses social justice and political
issues, most commonly raising awareness to incidents
of human rights abuse.
The work
of artists including Ed Atkins, Simon Denny, Cécile B. Evans, Isa Genzken, Josh Kline, Hito Steyerl, Hank Willis Thomas, and Anicka Yi
addresses issues like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, bioethics, surveillance,
social justice, and virtual existence.
Hard Edged is a group exhibition that illustrates the rich interplay
of tradition, innovation, and individual talent among a group
of artists
of African descent whose work in geometrical abstraction
addresses issues including as feminism, identity, colonialism, stereotypes, family relations, and
social justice.
Founded by filmmaker Paul Haggis, Artists for Peace and
Justice (APJ) is a non-profit organization that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty around the
Justice (APJ) is a non-profit organization that encourages peace and
social justice and addresses issues of poverty around the
justice and
addresses issues of poverty around the world.
So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement
of environmental
social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to
address the salient
issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation
of our resource bases, the injustice
of pollution itself, in terms
of what it does to people's health and their children.
However, I believe that given the severity
of climate change and the threat that it poses, our first priority should be that
of addressing it in the most effective way possible, and I would prefer to avoid individuals attempting to use the
issue of climate change as a vehicle for one version or another
of ideologically - motivated syndicalist or socialist «
social justice.»
Meaning a solo, small law firm or a huge law firm that takes up 10 floors in a major office building in downtown, they would begin to explicitly and consistently over the long term
address issues of equity and
social justice in their business as usual.
High school youth from various schools gather every two weeks to focus in on an area
of social justice involving today's youth and work together on a project that will be presented on how to
address some
of these
issues.
The
Social Justice Game Jam is seeking games that in some way promote awareness of or address some of the civil justice
Justice Game Jam is seeking games that in some way promote awareness
of or
address some
of the civil
justice justice issues.
A
social lab / developmental evaluation approach may be the most effective way to pilot new ideas and new procedures, but I suggest that it may not be suitable to
addressing the more fundamental systemic
issues that underpin family
justice processes, assuming
of course that those
issues need to be
addressed at all.
Taking the concept
of open access in libraries and applying it to access to
social justice and the self - represented the legal aid briefing documents / summaries on the law in question should be open to the public and recommended to the public to improve court processes and the sate
of the law on the
issues being
addressed.
a. law; b.
social policy; and c. the administration
of justice through the identification
of areas and
issues needing study and analysis and the encouragement and support
of projects to
address those needs.
The
Social Justice Report highlights those critical
issues that must be properly
addressed for the new arrangements to provide the potential benefits and not to repeat or make worse any mistakes
of the past.
In my
Social Justice Report I draw attention to 19 examples
of successful programs which use a range
of approaches to
address this
issue: community education; healing; alcohol management; men's groups; family support and child protection; safe houses; and programs for offenders.
Twenty - five years ago, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) found that these
social and health
issues can be determinants
of contact with the
justice system, and need to be
addressed in order to end the over-representation
of Indigenous people in custody.
The
Social Justice Report identifies the warning signs where the current federal system for Indigenous affairs is not capable
of addressing these core
issues due to significant policy errors.
The Tenets empower individual practitioners, agencies and systems
of care to identify and
address the
social justice issues intricately intertwined with all infant mental health work.
In drafting this section
of the Native Title Report 2011 and the
Social Justice Report 2011, I have been concerned about achieving a balance between what may be seen as the promotion
of yet more negative views about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the need to
address an
issue that has serious implications for us as peoples.
It employs activities such as walking groups, healing art camps, men's groups and recently a one - day men's forum on
justice issues, as part
of its holistic approach to
addressing the emotional and
social wellbeing
of its participants as well as lateral violence.
The
Social Justice Commissioner's Social Justice Report 2001 provides a detailed account of where there have been improvements and where there has been a lack of progress in addressing issues relating to the contact of Indigenous peoples with the criminal justice
Justice Commissioner's
Social Justice Report 2001 provides a detailed account of where there have been improvements and where there has been a lack of progress in addressing issues relating to the contact of Indigenous peoples with the criminal justice
Justice Report 2001 provides a detailed account
of where there have been improvements and where there has been a lack
of progress in
addressing issues relating to the contact
of Indigenous peoples with the criminal
justice justice system.
I wish to
address an
issue which relates specifically to the functions that I have been appointed to fulfill - namely the proposal in the Bill to abolish the specialist position
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Social Justice Commissioner and replace it with a generalist human rights commissioner.