Sentences with phrase «cultural constructs of»

This group show features new and recent works by Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms and «explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.»

Speech / Acts, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by artists Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present Speech / Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

re.collections, implies a reference to collections, collecting, correcting, naming, renaming and reframing cultural constructs of art and artifice.

The social network of Pan Yuliang's early career as a modernist artist and an art educator in the period of the Republic of China resonated with larger social - political movements at that time: from the cultural construct of «New Woman» and the New Culture Movement, to the revolution and reform launched by the Nationalist Party and early Communists and the rise of modern nationalism in China, and from the end of World War I to the Japanese Invasion in 1937.

We then extend this social sensitivity hypothesis to the cultural realm and present evidence indicating that it may be of relevance to the cultural construct of individualism — collectivism.

Not exact matches

For the chairman of the Standing Commission on Evangelism, while claiming to honor those authoritative references, the normative articles of faith are constructed by perceived cultural directions and personal needs.

On this foundation one can then construct a fuller cultural edifice of other authors who are worth reading, a house of intellect that is wide, diverse, and generously pluralistic.

Multiculturalism that claims all truths are only cultural constructs necessarily denies the truth of the human community.

Unless they were one of the select few geniuses who are able to ascend beyond cultural constructs and imagine the impossible, they would not be capable of grasping most of the concepts, despite having essentially the same brain capacity.

He offers particularly compelling documentation for his central contention that childhood is a social construct whose meaning changes to accord with changes in the larger cultural definitions of human nature.

What he was getting were messages about subjective meanings that were filtered through a very formalized, socially constructed set of cultural categories.

It might seem laborious to have to define terms so specifically and painstakingly when it comes of a simple Twitter hashtag, but it's not hard to see the dysfunction inherent to chatting about things as emotionally charged as faith, belief and constructs of systemic cultural privileges.

However, as we began to unpack the terminology, examine the practical implications of discussing it as a preeminent cultural construct versus an abstract idea and thought more deeply about how we would actually define it, the idea of Christian Privilege became more amorphous.

In suggesting that the evangelical subculture is simply a socially constructed reality, does Balmer mean to imply that the «larger world»» the world, presumably, of academia and the cultural elite» is not so constructed?

Having said that, it is obvious that constructing the case for heterosexuality must be as complex and nuanced as the cultural and spiritual trajectories of the human spirit.

--- It just blows my mind that because you do something like «find a personal comfort zone and construct a theological and cultural justification around it» you pin you shortcomings on «ALL of us.»

Thus they have found themselves in a kind of no - man's - land where they have been engaged in constructing for themselves a cultural home for which there has been neither precedent nor blueprint.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

The push by health professionals for the early consolidation of infant sleep is a recent socio - cultural construct associated with bottle - feeding cultures and has little to do with what is in an infant's best interest, especially one that breastfeeds.

«The Baker - Polito Administration seeks to encourage children and their families to get outside and visit the Massachusetts state parks system, which offers a wealth of natural, cultural, and recreational resources, like the newly constructed boardwalk, for all to enjoy.»

Finally, they summarize ideas of how psychological «defenses of peace» — a phrase in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) preamble — can be constructed in the human mind.

That's also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society's scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu.

As Pickering says in his book Constructing Quarks (Edinburgh University Press, p 413): «It is unproblematic that scientists produce accounts of the world that they find comprehensible; given their cultural resources, only singular incompetence could have prevented members of the (particle physics) community producing an understandable version of reality at any point in their history.»

The cultural meanings of dating should be acknowledged when making generalizations and building theoretical constructs on romantic relationships, as well as in applying American research results in describing Finnish romantic relationships.

Resonating with some of the cultural concerns of the late 1960's when the film was made, Planet of the Apes sets up the classic battle of evolution verses religion, which may prove offensive to some (although the story's construct leaves room to argue that faith and science are not as different as the opinions of those who interrupt them).

Visually, Potter recreates four centuries of British cultural history in painterly images and austerely constructed settings, from Orlando's lavish manor to the frozen Thames of 17th century London to 18th century Constantinople, in Leningrad and in Uzbekistan.

As their feelings fester, it becomes clear their senses of self - worth are dictated by external cultural constructs, causing them to lose hold of their own identities.

by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of film form.

Candidates will use data collected during PLE # 1 to construct a meaningful account of teacher learning within the cultural and historical context of the school and its community.

Building on Ibarra's Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison (2001) «cultural dissonance» construct, the two learning paradigms are contrasted, and a third, the mutually adaptive learning paradigm, is posited as a pathway to academic success for this population.

Moreover, Dr. Leonardo argues, the construct of whiteness continues to shape global cultural identities even as it fragments our total understanding of race.

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

The image Miisi had constructed in Britain of the noble African rooted in his cultural values shunning westernization was a myth.

The island has a rich cultural heritage that dates back to over 2,000 years which is linked to the origins of Buddhism in the country with magnificently constructed stupas and the ruin remains of ancient kingdoms.

By the deliberate efforts of post-revolutionary governments the «Mestizo identity» was constructed as the base of the modern Mexican national identity, through a process of cultural synthesis referred to as mestizaje [mestiˈsahe].

Wu explains: «If, in fact, a lot of things are cultural and human constructs, it means that we, as game makers, have a lot of ability to shape civilization, in a way.

«If, in fact, a lot of things are cultural and human constructs, it means that we, as game makers, have a lot of ability to shape civilization, in a way.»

By eschewing traditional game constructs, Flower highlighted the power of videogames to say and do beautiful things, while supplying real, concrete evidence that games are «growing up» and finding some cultural legitimacy.

After all, painting as an activity is a cultural construct, and it can not really be seen and understood without some sense of its relation to art history.

The objective of the meeting, an invitation email explained, was «to construct a network for artists to share information, coordinate responses with established organizations, and leverage our cultural capital to effect meaningful change in our communities, at the state level, and nationally.»

But colour, and our relationship with it, also exists in a place outside of these linguistic and cultural constructs.

Sadie Barnette uses drawing, photography, objects, book and print making, and site - specific interventions to construct a visual language out of cultural codes and west coast vernacular, economic formalism, text and abstractions.

Within his fascination with source, Boone is interested in how particular arrangements and the accumulation of materials that are clearly part of a larger cultural fabric are what construct personal histories, and how reconfiguring these arrangements creates open vessels for new intention.

The Cultural Question reexamines the Orientalist approach Schatz and his contemporaries used to construct a «new» art and culture of Israel, and will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

ZUMU, Israel's first mobile museum, invites visitors to partake in an adventurous cultural and contemporary art journey through a compound constructed of shipping containers.

the series of sculptural works reflects suh's continued investigation of themes surrounding cultural displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities, along with the perception of our surroundings and how one is able to construct memory from a space.

Identity Shifts A companion exhibition to Posing Beauty, this collection - based display features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

The result is a highly stylized fusion of motifs, both natural and constructed, that alludes to the dense cultural awareness characteristic of contemporary life.