Sentences with phrase «economic domination in»

Using corn as a central material, Zea reflects on contemporary forms of economic domination in the Americas.

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In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

The neo-conservatives» quest for U.S. domination of the oil fields in the Middle East and of military and economic geopolitics in that region aligns neatly with the views of Harvard scholar Samuel P. Huntington, whose «clash of civilizations» theory divides the world into the West vs. the Rest.

The identification of Europe and «the faith» implied, on the one hand, that those who accepted European economic, political and military domination and who adopted European civilization thereby came under pressure to undergo conversion to the European faith in Jesus Christ.

Therefore, the entreaty of Latin America is for liberation from cultural domination, economic exploitation, military regression, social marginalization and political imperialism; it is an appeal for fairness in international trade and the establishment of a social order that promotes human dignity, respects democratic institutions and guarantees an equitable distribution of wealth.

In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform of political, social, and economic systems of domination, today exacerbated greatly by the phenomenon of economic globalization.

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.

All of us in our varied ministries tend to be awed by the structures and potency of the establishment of Baal, even though we know, somewhere down there in the timid, secret resources of faith, that all the stuff of Baal doesn't make God — power, technological sophistication, machismo, sex, political, military, and economic domination, energy independence (ha!).

If South American nations can overcome these obstacles, this should be possible in parts of the world where domination has thus far been chiefly economic, with much less threat of overt military intervention.

Sin, alienating persons from God, neighbor and nature, is found both in individual and corporate forms, both in slavery of the human will and in social, political and economic structures of domination and dependence.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestationIn a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestationin which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

They succeeded in ending Catholic domination in much of northern Europe and provided the foundation for a remarkable growth of free thought, free economic activity, political democracy, and modernization.

The WCC's Bangkok Conference cited above rightly urged missionary agencies to «examine critically their involvement as part of patterns of political and economic domination, and to re-evaluate the role of personnel and finance at their disposal in the light of that examination.»

There is, however, another power in Eastern Europe that apparently does desire world domination and with great skill manipulates the longings of these people for racial equality, economic subsistence, and political freedom.

Martí's concerns are with the kind of political and economic domination of international institutions and corporations over citizens that has been established in the banking and euro crises.

On the other hand, the poor, dependent classes who suffered from inequality and economic domination had a self - interest in republican equality.

But anarchism does have much in common with those strands of republicanism that see themselves as a fundamentally anti-elitist project that confronts sources of economic, political and social domination through concerted political action by grassroots organizations.

But, and this will be the focus of this article, it is also possible for a state to adopt policies that undermine the capacity and, even, disposition of other states to engage in republican self - government without exercising political or economic domination over the states in question.

«Consequently, packing people in a country hemmed for economic exploitation, political subjugation and cultural domination without their consent is undemocratic.

For example, if I believe that human societies are inherently amoral, unjust, and governed by powerful elites who rig the economic, political, and educational game in their favor, then I might endorse the late Brazilian social activist Paulo Freire's «pedagogy of the oppressed,» wherein students are taught to view social relations in terms of power and domination.

He forgets the powerful role that western and U.S. militarism and economic clout have played in world affairs and in the domination and subjugation of many of the world's peoples and material resources over recent centuries.

Also, while military conquest or economic domination often introduces a new language into an established language community, in most cases it takes long - term immigration or the collapse of the native population to give the new language a foothold (witness the indigenous cultures of Latin America wiped out by the diseases brought to their shores by Europeans).

Elsewhere, Noland sends up another archetypical American symbol in Cowboy Bullethead Movie Star (1990), while Robert Mapplethorpe's double - exposure of a dollar bill positions the icon of US economic power in ambiguous isolation, an icon of power and domination rendered indeterminate and translucent.

Steel maize plants, ceramic jerry cans, concrete chainsaws and wooden AK - 47s become symbols for the difficulties of surviving through subsistence in difficult economic conditions and evoke the idea of brutal uprooting of cultural heritage, political revolution and its self - perpetuating cycle of domination.

(Wikipedia): «Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self - reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from foreign domination.»