Sentences with phrase «cultural narrative of»

One of the significant challenges of our generation is the collision between the technological revolution and the larger cultural narrative of «Safety First».

And none of the skeptic narratives — inevitably not science at all — make any inroads into the cultural narrative of global warming.

Tracy Rose's work has consistently questioned and challenged the prevalent aesthetics of international contemporary art centres, as well as the emergence of a dominant cultural narrative of struggle and reconciliation in South Africa.

«This focus is understandable given cultural narratives of death's negativity, but our results suggest that death is more positive than people expect: Meeting the grim reaper may not be as grim as it seems.»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, God - Is Rivera, director of inclusion and cultural resonance at VML, delivered a stark warning on diversity and inclusion, saying creatives have helped create a default narrative that revolves around Caucasian families.

The actual archetypical buyer personas that are created serve as an interface and a narrative to social, cultural, and behavioral research of buyers within organizations as well as in individual environments.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

A few decades of political influence accompanied by a growing cultural irrelevance (not there yet) is also not exactly a triumphant narrative.

Some Christians have bought into the cultural narrative that you can't really thrive unless you're married and having lots and lots of sex.

Much of their narrative anticipates and even revels in the cultural clash «caused by» those who feel threatened.

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

Rather, the Paraiyars» religion points to an arena of ongoing contestation and transformation of dominant and, sometimes, oppressive cultural and social patterns that are founded on religious narratives (plots?).

Emotions are also high, however, because groups on the two extremes of the cultural narratives have worked hard to keep them high.

One need not ignore economic and geopolitical factors to be more impressed by the explanatory narratives provided by scholars such as Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington who accent the cultural and religious sources of the current conflict.

One of the doubled - edged gifts of the enlightenment is that we've dispensed with a lot of superstitious thinking, but we've also dismissed the more useful side of myth - forming and cultural narratives.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

The drama of cultural question and ecclesial counter question is also being played out in an interesting way in narrative theology.

They also showcase stories of Indigenous women and cultural knowledge through their products and facilitate a powerful and positive narrative about Indigenous women and their cultures.

This book is about the historical, cultural background to the birth narratives of Jesus in the Gospels.

Thusly, I do concur that the premise of the cultural paradigm of expressionism holds that art is capable of social comment, but only if the cultural paradigm of the narrative is invalid; if that is not the case, Truth is used to reinforce the status quotient.

The narrative provides stirring testimony that convictions about God's power conveyed in the literature of the Old Testament move well beyond what the ancient Israelites inherited from their cultural surroundings.

In the case of Christianity, he observed, it is scriptural narrative that shapes the cultural - linguistic world in which the corporate body of Christ expresses its meanings and seeks to follow Christ.

It is not just the skepticism of intellectuals or the inadequacies of moral education but the structural and cultural realities of our society in this historical moment that make us doubt any kind of transcending narrative.

This means that many of the cultural assumptions that support and are built into the narratives are lost to us forever.

Such a view is based on a reading of the household codes that elevates their cultural context over their gospel message (and sometimes on a misunderstanding of the creation narrative, which I discuss here).

assumptions» to a reading of the biblical narrative, despite efforts to avoid starting with a cultural framework, is worth underscoring and applying to the positions of postliberals themselves.

Thus, the premise of the cultural paradigm of expression holds that art is capable of social comment, but only if the cultural paradigm of narrative is invalid; if that is not the case, truth is used to reinforce the status quo.

If we want to be places that embrace the contributions of women, value their giftedness, and encourage them to tell their stories, we need to start by confronting the ways we too have become complicit with cultural norms and narratives.

As the reader follows the main characters through the narrative, children can note the value of self reliance, connection to family and of being part of a history — personal, familial as well as cultural.

Each chapter contains some narrative from the author, exploring the social and cultural aspects of women's experiences.

When Pink Ribbons Are No Comfort: On Humor and Breast Cancer Cultural Aspects of PTSD, Part II: Narrative and Healing Culture and Learning to Drink: What Age?

-- Empowerment and development of inclusive national narratives — Global knowledge of cultures and histories — Cultural respect and understanding — Communication, exchange and exposure — Global citizenry through responsible media and political statements — Global values and equality — Avoidance of dehumanization of the other and abuse of knowledge — Other moral truths and views.

It is hard to argue against the fact that countries are influenced in their strategic thinking and security policies by historical narratives of their respective national «cultures», which have sources in history, a shared sense of identity, folklore and cultural heritage.

The new Bolivia is engaging in a process of in - depth institutional reforms, challenging mainstream narratives and political structures and reinventing a model of the state and creating notions of citizenship better suited to highly diverse ethnic and cultural landscapes.

These activities are instead part of a much larger narrative in which cultural pride and historical grudges play leading roles.

After all, many critics have pointed out that van Sertima's thesis is just another form of racist cultural appropriation, this time erasing native Mesoamerican accomplishment in favor of a narrative of African dominance.

And so, is kind of their narrative that has been scrolled on our cultural consciousness.

Anna Everywhere provides inspiration for adventure travels with elements of cultural, historical and political narrative.

In the end, it's a very well crafted more of the same, where the change in the setting delivers some interesting landscapes and cultural aspects in the narrative.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

Despite simply touching on some of the book's socio - political, religious, cultural and geographical context, Forster still manages to string together a cohesive narrative of sorts.

«This was not a good moment in the history of English cuisine,» declared McEwan's ever - so - dry narrative voice, also selling out Edward's cultural standards with the interjection that it «would not have crossed his mind to order a red».

There's enough good - naturedness and cultural specificity here, alongside a slight deviation from the usual immigrant narratives, to render it a dollop of sweetness and novelty that goes down easy.

His strong performance provides crucial ballast to the winding narrative of Milk's life, which hits a lot of dead ends and detours before his rise to political and cultural prominence.

This is the heart of Weerasethakul's work; taking old forms that have been suppressed or forgotten (as in the animist folk tales of Thailand) and re-forming them into narratives that speak with renewed urgency to the contemporary cultural climate.

As she charts the dilemmas and gestures of an European trader Almayer (Stanislas Mehar) and his «mixed - blood» daughter, Nina (Aurora Marion), Akerman's decision to take Conrad's 19th - century, Malaysia - set story to modern - day Cambodia without acknowledging the changes comes to strike less as an eccentric gesture than as a purposeful extension of the narrative's inquiries into cultural identity and colonial uprooting.

But there's enough good - naturedness and cultural specificity here, alongside a slight deviation from the usual immigrant narratives, to render it a dollop of sweetness and novelty that goes down easy.

That, I think, will do for plot summary, since to watch ATHF is to give up entirely on linear narrative and just sort of groove on the sudden shifts of pop - cultural reality.