Sentences with phrase «cultural climate of»

They will also demonstrate Hirshhorn's continued commitment to showcasing the ways that artists respond to the unique political and cultural climate of their time, a cause for which this institution organized countless exhibitions and public programs in the past.

Based in Addis Ababa, Mesai is part of the rapid change happening in the Ethiopian capital and has invaluable insight into the evolving cultural climate of Ethiopia.

These works were the first in a long line of paintings and sculpture that Evangeline created to reflect on the cultural climate of our times.

The exhibition explores to the core the ways in which artists responded to the zeitgeist of the «80s and reacted to the cultural climate of the time.

Marc Bijl, who lives and works in Berlin, chose it as the title for his exhibition in which he shows new works that address our current cultural climate of information overload, and in which too many sources are undermining our view on truth and facts.

Here, Bas takes as a point of reference the charged cultural climate of 1960s San Francisco, where a church was founded for which «hell» actually meant «heaven».

Work to change the overall cultural climate of its community through education and advocacy services that promote animal welfare.

With the cultural climate of today, it's pretty hard to defend some of the choices Peckinpah makes in this movie, but put in context with his body of work and the confusion of the times, there is no doubt that the movie deserves a chance to keep sparking conversation.

Another pioneer in this field was a Unitarian minister, Samuel Johnson, whose book Oriental Religions and Their Relations to Universal Religion was indicative of the cultural climate of his day.

It started in the heady days of the Second Vatican Council and was powerfully influenced by the 1960s cultural climate of polymorphous revolutionisms.

Not exact matches

The report comes as the reef, considered one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change, is at risk of having its status downgraded by the UN cultural organization UNESCO to «world heritage in danger».

CBS noted that Brown will return to «a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.»

Your best climate might be up in the peaks of Ecuador, or in cultural Spain.

Each magazine covers several communities with well thought out articles and discusses characteristics such as: Median Housing Price City / Town Profile Arts & Cultural Activities Recreation & Outdoor Activities Continuing Education Opportunities Hospital Airports Tax Info Climate & Weather At the end of the articles, key characteristics are bulleted in a quick read section.

The main themes of the questions were innovation, climate - change policy and the cultural sector in Canada.

He first joined the C.D. Howe Institute in 1990, producing widely - cited research on international trade, Canada's economic union, climate change policy, and the economics of cultural policy.

Feminist writers have rightfully long argued that pornography» promotes a (cultural) climate in which acts of sexual hostility directed against women are not only tolerated but ideologically encouraged.»

In today's cultural and political climate, however, to suggest that the current stampede to accept claims that a decade ago would have been regarded as signs of serious psychological disturbance — and that are still regarded as such by eminent psychiatrists — is to risk being shamed and cast to the margins of society as a bigot.

Talk about «the books of 2015» must include at least a mention of the cultural climate in which they appeared, dominated above all by a mood of ressentiment.

The increase in the number of Muslims moving to Western Europe makes an impact on the cultural and religious climate.

In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughts.

These were willing to shed all the inherited and supposedly unchangeable dogmas in order to be free to explore fresh forms and expressions of the Christian faith which would be more relevant to the new cultural and intellectual climate.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

Facing unprecedented economic challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»

It is doubtless correct that, under the influence of the peculiar American cultural climate, the churches here have developed a temper which is altogether lacking in Europe.

The cultural shape freedom of expression assumes in the legal climate of South Africa, therefore, is of unique interest.

The implication is that Solzhenitsyn uses prudence rather than abstract ideology to choose the best regime for the circumstances, with the main requirements of good government being constitutional limits on power to prevent crushing tyranny and the promotion of a cultural climate that encourages citizens to develop their souls.

Would either the suffragist movement of the last century or current feminism have emerged from another sort of cultural climate?

The people of Riverside County, along with those in the communities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, enjoy an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate, good air quality, reasonably priced land and building sites adjacent to the I - 15 and I - 215 corridors, affordable housing at all levels, a highly skilled labor force, quality educational facilities and programs and cultural, entertainment and recreational activities for every lifestyle.

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Marco Verweij and colleagues argued that acknowledging the range of cultural world - views allows us to propose «clumsy solutions» to climate change (Verweij et al. (2006)-RRB-.

«The cultural theory of risk for climate change adaptation.»

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Many of the comments here are right to suggest that most political movements that emphasise cultural imperialism and «racial superiority» do not need any ideological coherence, but only a self - serving agenda and the right socio - economic «climate that favors growth.»

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This will come about as a result of a cultural change whereby the university is not only seen as «a marginal phenomenon», a place to practice skills, but instead as an academic meeting place which offers a stimulating and pleasant working climate for everybody who works there.

Clear evidence of prehistoric conflict can be difficult to discern in other parts of the world, but the arid climate and sparse settlement in the Southwest have left pueblo ruins, cultural artifacts, and even human remains remarkably intact.

His work has shown that people's cultural identity, not their knowledge of science, drives their opinion on climate change.

Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

«It's a tremendous leap to draw these conclusions — that climate change is linked to violence — and factors such as economics, technology, poverty, group dynamics, cultural nationalism and personalities play significant roles in outbreaks of war,» says William Martel, an international securities expert at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Many of peoples» favorite tourism destinations and activities are at risk to climate change, from the ski industry to tropical beaches, from iconic species to cultural heritage.

Timbuktu The former cultural and economic capital of West Africa is drying up under climate change.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.

This cultural flexibility may have been the key to success for modern humans, says a team of international researchers, made up of archaeologists, paleo climatologists, and climate modellers from the French CNRS1 and the EPHE PSL Research University, Bergen University as well as Wits University.

And with the service's centennial happening in 2016, NPS is working on a «plan of action» to improve the parks for the big celebration, as well as to address long - term concerns, including cultural resource management, invasive species, and climate change.

These include food production, alongside supporting services such as soil development, regulating services such as pest control and climate regulation and cultural services such as the use of the grassland for recreation.

The finding supports a case made by Jared Diamond and others that migration along the same lines of latitude in Eurasia promoted the sharing of crops, animals and technology, but that wide variations in climate found in the New World's north - to - south orientation hindered cultural exchanges

They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.

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