Sentences with phrase «cultural constructs through»

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

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.

And both humans and animals direct their evolution through the social and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthesis.

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.

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].

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.

Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»

(b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»

His work reveals the concept of value as a cultural construct borne through hidden ties to morality and privilege, by exposing the cultural and social techniques employed in value construction.

Datumsoria: The Return of the Real is an outcome of «Art & Tech @,» a program initiated at Chronus Art Center and conceived by ZHANG Ga, which aims, through resuscitating the valuable legacy of experiments in art and technology from the mid-20th century, to come to terms with the challenges of a technologically constructed timespace: a new reality that has altogether changed the rules of the game in work and play, in politics and economics, and in artistic imagination and cultural sensibility.

Through the «Korea Artist Prize,» which will continue long into the future, the selected artists will receive motivation to create more art in the short - term and play an important role in constructing the basic infrastructure for cultural art in the future.

More than a groundbreaking visual art exhibition, Art AIDS America Chicago will serve as the catalyst for a citywide dialogue on the cultural impact of HIV / AIDS through robust public programming at the newly constructed Alphawood Gallery

His work constructs a mural of archetypal cultural imagery filtered through the perspective of a Generation X African.

Hershman Leeson's project not only demonstrates how subjects are defined through social and cultural constructs, it also disrupts that same system by introducing a fictionalized character into it.

Within the context of the exhibition, Shonibare's work explores the social constructs which inform the human condition by examining racial and cultural stereotypes through juxtaposing a white and a black ballerina dancing each other's mirror image in what is traditionally a solo from Swan Lake.

Known for constructing the feminine archetype through juxtaposing the ancient goddesses of Mesopotamia, Egypt and India with the more «modern» goddesses such as the Mona Lisa, Umm Kulthum, Tahiyya Karyokka, the artist's mother or aunts, Lutfi captures the women's emotions, their sexuality and experiences in order to simultaneously celebrate femininity and expose the cultural restrictions imposed upon it.

Hong Kong, 30 March 2012: Sotheby's is delighted to announce that it will unveil its newly - constructed state - of - the art gallery space in Hong Kong on 19 May, 2012, with opening exhibitions running through the end of May — an exciting month filled with international cultural events in Hong Kong.

Audrey Chan is a Los Angeles - based artist, writer, and educator whose research - based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of «the personal is political.»

They borrow freely from art historical and other cultural milieus in order to construct a fragmented array of material tropes, which are then subsumed into a whole through a precisely considered exhibition schema.

Through complex investigations of architecture, the human body, literature, and history, Attia demonstrates how individual and cultural identity is constructed within the context of colonial domination and conflict.

However, by making conservationists more aware of how people construct anthropomorphic meanings around species and how they engage with species and attribute value to their characteristics — e.g. people may attribute personhood or emotions to species that they play with, such as pets or even livestock — they can create conservation programmes which speak to people through their cultural expectations and emotional connections.

These three socio - cultural constructs indicate that people develop attachments through their experiences with significant others within social arrangements and institutions.