Sentences with phrase «for cultural resistance»

Cape Town - based artist Sue Williamson (b. 1941, Lichfield, England) uses politically charged photographs as a conduit for cultural resistance, highlighting the issues marginalized communities face.

What is new is the way this tendency is now being used as means of slowly but surely eliminating any space for cultural resistance.

Not exact matches

This is the beginning of the cultural resistance and struggle for survival in the global cultural war.

Intimidated by secularism, it follows the path of least resistance: what better way to relieve oneself of the stress of fighting for Christianity then to issue pre-emptive concession speeches and wave the white flag of cultural surrender?

John Paul II's approach to east central Europe was based on different premises: that the post-war division of Europe was immoral and historically artificial; that communist violations of basic human rights had to be named for what they were; and that the «captive nations» could eventually find tools of resistance that communism could not match, if they reclaimed the religious, moral, and cultural truth about themselves and lived those truths without fear.

This type of analysis is a vital precursor to any attempt to measure the social and cultural effects of the extension of the capitalist system, especially in its contemporary neo-liberal phase, but it also permits us to draw up strategies and alliances for resistance.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

There really ought to be little wonder that the Catholic Church would, for the better part of two centuries, see great caution where possible, and open resistance where necessary, as the rule for her engagement with modernity — political, cultural, intellectual, and otherwise.

But, of course, one must ask a basic theological question: What is the theological rationale for consciously and concertedly bringing the Dalit and Adivasi dynamic of resistance - liberation with all its religio - cultural and socioeconomic dimensions into the realm of Christian theology?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

«Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value ourselves, and leads us to hope for more than the established cultural system is willing to grant... such love is far more energizing than guilt, duty, or self - sacrifice.

The downside includes cultural resistance to Good Clinical Practice (GCP), clinical research process real - time compliance, inadequate information systems leading to unpredictable project milestones, a «no clock» application process in the regulatory machinery, and inconsistent time frames for export / import of clinical trial materials at the border.

Fullan asserts that, while there is no standard formula for changing the culture of an organization, sustainable improvement requires several years of effort to work through complex cultural issues such as resistance to change and acculturation of the new leader.215 Turnover that occurs every two or three years makes it unlikely that a principal will get beyond the stages of initiation and early implementation.

''... not simply an excellent historical survey of artistic and curatorial identifications with and resistances to capitalist and post-productivist worlds of work; [Work] is also a deftly edited collection that makes a claim for cultural labour as essential to the working politics of our contemporary age.»

Ms. Block, who has traveled to Cuba for many years and long made the case that the island nation and the Bronx share important cultural and economic affinities, encountered resistance from some of the museum's leadership in her push to make the show happen and to deepen ties with Cuba.

Highlights include a keynote by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, on exhibition making in the 21st century; solo artist conversations with JR, Hermann Nitsch and Carolee Schneemann; artists - in - dialogue pairings featuring Constant Dullaart and Matt Goerzen; Leonardo Drew and Ja'Tovia Gary; and Josh Kline and Patty Chang; and a series of panels addressing the future of the gallery model, the rapid growth of new cultural centers globally and the paradoxical conditions for political resistance.

Weems and Holzer use text to interrogate power through self - expression, creating new narratives for cultural and political resistance, while Katchadourian voices the frustrations of everyday life while inserting her artistic identity into the male - dominated history of portraiture.

Highlights included a keynote by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, on exhibition making in the 21st century; solo artist conversations with JR, Hermann Nitsch and Carolee Schneemann; artists - in - dialogue pairings featuring Constant Dullaart and Matt Goerzen; Leonardo Drew and Ja'Tovia Gary; and Josh Kline and Patty Chang; and a series of panels addressing the future of the gallery model, the rapid growth of new cultural centers globally and the paradoxical conditions for political resistance.

While explicitly addressing loss, his installation speaks to the persistence and resistance of cultural forms through time, and the potential for internally coherent spaces to exist within other, seemingly dominant spaces.

Andrea Fraser presents a lecture in conjunction with her essay for X-TRA, «Toward a Reflexive Resistance,» in which she considers the structural positions of the Left and Right in relation to cultural capital and power in the wake of the elections of 2016.

It is thus misleading for you and those who share your cultural framework to contrast your preference for «market forces» with the ostensible resistance you see to these in those who favour mitigation.

And in a cultural competition occurring within domain overlap, one cultural «truth» can form the focal point for skeptical resistance to another.

The Task Force put a lot on the table, identifying five key problems: 1) a dysfunctional legal marketplace; 2) issues and challenges for both new and experienced lawyers; 3) inefficient and overly complex legal processes; 4) regulatory hurdles; and 5) cultural resistance to innovation.

Intellectual property law is mostly about commercializing patents and fostering ingenuity for commercial purposes, so the idea of opening up a body of law to make changes to deal with cultural issues has been met with a «significant body of resistance in Canada,» says Alexander.

Any of our mental health practices which may have misdiagnosed and mistreated grief as depression, spiritual experience as psychosis or schizophrenia, and political resistance as intransigent or psychopathic behaviours, mistaking the asserting of cultural identity, and defiance for the disturbing behaviours of difficult patients.