Sentences with phrase «cultural tension in»

In Temporarily Disconnected, artists — Ma'ayan Amir & Ruti Sela, Jannicke Låker, Erik van Lieshout, and Julika Rudelius — construct and enter into complex situations filled with social anxiety and cultural tension in their video works.

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Accordingly, as the European economic crisis continues to fuel nationalist ideology, STRATFOR expects the tension created by globalization and its social and cultural effects to be an important element in the European political scene in the coming years.

Rather than make decisions in a leadership vacuum, they recognize the tensions that swirl around cultural issues, especially for young people who may interact every day with those who believe — and live — differently.

The cultural emphasis on the value of the individual has created a tension in contemporary domestic life.

Cultural differences block the communication between the traditional and the contemporary; or, the church is still emotionally related to the nineteenth - century conditions while the world is involved in the explorations and tensions of the twentieth century.

The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.

Though he tries to reconcile his religiously grounded vision with his embrace of the cultural agenda of the left, there is a transparent tension in Jackson's politics that surely accounts for his limited electoral success outside of the black community.

The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and economic domination were all present in all the conflicts of the time.

Again there is a wide range between the maximal identity of religion and other activities such as prevail in primitive societies and the tension we find existing on more advanced levels of cultural and religious development.

None of the various possible legal outcomes will settle the dispute or even ease the tensions between these two groups, because the abortion controversy is in its nature a cultural controversy.

The Broadcasting and Film Commission of the N.C.C. may make awards annually to films of outstanding merit that, within the perspective of the Christian faith, also (1) portray with honesty and compassion the human condition — including human society in its cultural environment — depicting man in the tension between his attempt to realize the full potential of his of.

This is in real tension with Western Christianity, but it is in more drastic violation of all the other religious and cultural traditions.

Just for that reason it represents clearly the tension between general cultural influence and a tightly organized in - group that is to be found in many other movements.

The fan base is pretty much divided in half by any conceivable issue, there are cultural tensions beneath the surface, and the Tigers have been hilariously inconsistent of late, winning 11 games or more twice in four years and going 5 - 7 twice as well.

Vicente Chua Reyes highlights in his article the tension between the maintenance of tradition and the modernizing effects that the wave of social media technologies have on the cultural stasis of some states.

When refugees resettle in a new country, they often deal with tension between new cultural values and traditional ones.

We are seeing cultural tensions, housing shortages and a black market in employment (there are individuals earning # 1.50 per hour in London).

Also, given the governor's reported interest in the 2016 presidential race, having an ally as mayor of the country's most important cultural and financial center could help, assuming the tensions inherent to the city - state relationship don't undermine the Cuomo - de Blasio alliance.

Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

He also served on several university committees that dealt not only with the usual problems of a startup, but also with the fundamental tensions between the king's vision and the political and cultural realities in the kingdom.

Its militants expanded the targeting of cultural heritage in 2015 to ratchet up sectarian tensions, fund terrorism and promote their global franchise.

Both The Greatest Showman and Darkest Hour are conceived for skeptics, with directors Michael Gracey and Joe Wright (respectively) suspending disbelief in order to convey messages that are pertinent to our modern political - cultural tensions.

A scene following a party crash and armed intimidation comes close to instant classic status as our quartet of first - generation ABC hoods pulls up alongside Hispanic gang - members of a more traditional Southern California breed, the cultural tension erupting in a recognition of racial transference that borders on brilliant.

This thematic territory of cultural mistrust via miscommunication should be a generous playground for a humane writer's writer like Sayles, but his usual anthropological ear and eye for class tension and social custom have mystifyingly deserted him here — halfway through the film, my note - taking devolved into simple transcription of the multiple howlers in the dialogue.

I would like to characterize this period as a time when the tension between being the subject of politics and objects of anthropology (cultural other) was experienced most intensely in the history of Turkey's squatter neighborhoods.

Even so, the question remains whether the tension that Coleman identified is more severe in some cultural contexts than others.

This outreach needs to be authentic in order to overcome the often hidden undercurrent of cultural / ethnic tensions between English - dominant school staff and teachers and limited - English parents.

I really believe that if one can travel and live abroad will help with all the racial tensions, cultural misunderstandings, and ease up on the xenophobic sentiments that is rising in the world today.

Previously associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, she speaks here about cultural and financial tensions surrounding the display of art in Miami and beyond, and looks at the role of the curator today...

Will it have a heavy nostalgia for the cultural tensions of more than thirty years ago, like a Swift Boater still nursing betrayal in Vietnam?

In the current climate of political disenfranchisement and growing ideological tension, Creative Time launched Pledges of Allegiance on Flag Day, June 14, 2017 to «inspire a sense of community among cultural institutions, and begin articulating the urgent response our political moment demands,» as stated on their website.

Osline works primarily in the Americas, delving into a number of themes that explore economic and cultural structures, identity, gender, aging, along with the mystical and the natural world in tension with the human - built environment.

Instead, it stood in tension with them, bearing witness to a history of cultural self - determination while underscoring the difference between her art's encircled harmony and the contentious, unequal world beyond the frame.

Box II: Nathalie Edenmont: Forget - Me - Not «Probing and provative, rife with tension, she explores themes which include the deceptive natiure of cultural norms, conformity, the repression of the individual, and double standards in western society.»

As a result, their artistic practice and cultural identity is in state of tension.

Park's (b. 1912) photographic narratives offer dialogues about the cultural, social and political tensions existing in America.

This new exhibition expands on Smith's earlier interest in the tension between the pictorial representation and the moving image, and in the way they can both be distorted as soon as they shift cultural contexts.

Exploring how artists interpret urban and rural landscape through the lens of their own cultural, political or spiritual ideologies, the exhibition reveals the inherent tensions between landscape represented as a transcendental or spiritual place, and one rooted in social and political histories.

Presentations and discussions include work drawing on the summer programme at Furtherfield's Gallery and Commons lab, exploring tensions between digital inclusion and cultural diversity in the digital global hegemony.

By anthologizing essays, documents, and interviews by leading critics, historians, and artists on issues of site - specificity, conceptualism, feminism, and architecture practice, Surface Tension reveals the connections between cultural production and the very spaces in which such work functions.

Key works include Andrew Erdos's Texture of a Ghost (2011), a 6 x 8 foot room featuring hand - blown glass sculptures and a video installation; Josiah McElheny's Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I)(2004); Luke Jerram's E. coli (2010), which explores the tension between scientific objectivity and cultural perceptions of viruses, diseases, and bacteria; twelve snow globes by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz from the Travelers series; three stained glass light boxes by Judith Schaechter; and a recent body of work by Czech Republic - based artist Karen LaMonte that highlights the role of the kimono in Japanese culture.

César Martínez's work tackles the diverse economic, social and cultural tensions that Mexico has faced in the last decades.

Mennour juxtaposes Morellet, a pioneering minimalist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 90, with Mohamed Bourouissa, a young Algerian - born Parisian artist whose multimedia practice explores contemporary social tensions and cultural idiosyncrasies, especially in urban environments.

The exhibition aims to encourage a dialogue between the artworks and the viewer on the social, political, and cultural frameworks from which these tensions arise in Canadian history and how they also carry into the present.

The titles suggest something sensual, even erotic, but they're meant to call attention to a tension in Indian society between strong, somewhat insular cultural tradition and rapid, volatile, political change.

In her video works and performances — featuring Makhacheva herself as well as invited performers — the artist renders these themes as zones of tension between various overlapping and intertwined realities — artistic, cultural, social, practical, and political.

Opening the pictorial space as an inclusive realm, Anderson invites the viewer to bring their own cultural experiences and memories to the canvas, thus creating a visual tension where viewer and artist are connected in their contextualisation of the imagery presented to us.

She engages with the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, black femininity and beauty and a pop - cultural critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in the media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.

I accept that humanity will always have this dynamic tension between individualists and communitarians, which is delineated so beautifully in «cultural cognition» research.

Political capacity to respond to the causes and impacts of global warming coalesces in a complex cultural and economic environment that encompasses a suite of tensions on all temporal and spatial scales.