Sentences with phrase «national identity question»

The 2011 Census included a national identity question.

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The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

This focus on urban centres as increasingly independently articulated nodes of a national political activity questions the established notion of a hierarchically organised identity from the top down.

The question of national identity and affiliation with a political community, however, remains ever so vibrant not just in Greece and the Balkans but also in the UK and across Europe.

It addresses questions of how national identity might influence attitudes towards European integration, and how preferences and identities are changing.

Mr Marfo, who was the Minister of Finance at the time the loan was approved, suffered severe backlash from some Ghanaians especially members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for failing to conduct due diligence after questions about the company's identity arose and subsequently when the address it provided was traced to a beauty salon in the UK.

To address this question, Waring and a team of researchers from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), developed a mathematical model to understand how societies with different social structures and institutions manage natural resources to identity the key factors of successful resource management.

The film's ostensible subject is the largely - unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia, which split from Georgia after a violent separatist war in 1992, as well as the title's eponymous Maxim Gvinjia, Abkhazia's former Minister for Foreign Affairs; the film's other subject is Baudelaire's wider questioning of national identity.

Under the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (Public Law 107 - 279 III, section 303), the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is charged with ensuring that NAEP tests do not question test - takers about personal or family beliefs or make information about their personal identity publicly available.

While not comprehensive, these resources and activities enable students to explore difficult questions about national identity, institutional racism, and the boundaries of US citizenship.

These two young people from worlds apart will be drawn into a perilous romance that calls into personal question the meaning of love, family, loyalty, and national identity.

Using her deep love of her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks provocative questions — about history, identity, race, and religion — that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries.

Highlights from his numerous exhibitions include Portraits of Our Time (1978) at the Photographers Gallery, London; Brian Griffin (1984) at the Olympus Gallery, Tokyo; 20 for Today (1986) at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Createurs d'Images Createurs de Mode (1988) at the Museé des Arts de la Mode, Paris; Towards a Bigger Picture (1988) at the Victoria & Albert Museum; Work (1988) at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Beyond the Portrait (1992) at Derby City Art Museum; Seeing Things (1992) at the Victoria and Albert Museum; People and the City (2003) at Birmingham Art Gallery & Museum; a retrospective: Influences (2005) at the Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; and A Question of Identity (2005) at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Many of the 21st century artists — such as iona rozeal brown, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and Robert Pruitt — mix national, international, historical, and pop - culture references with personal stylistic preferences to produce images that provoke more questions about identity than they answer.

«Ofili's Union Black asks questions about British identity, the colonial legacy and the meaning of national allegiance which remain as relevant today as they were when the work was created 14 years ago,» said Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, in a press statement.

In the paintings for which he first became known, de Balincourt worked from the position of an outsider (the Paris - born artist has lived in the United States since childhood), questioning structures of power and influence, laying bare injustices and hypocrisies while maintaining an amused attachment to the myths through which identity — individual and national — is constructed.

The artists have examined the concept of the exhibition from diverse angles - the legacy of institutions which now sit uncomfortably with each other, the question of identity which oversteps fiercely guarded national borders with several challenges thrown to the viewer to ponder on what is deemed to be the «status quo».

Shonibare's questioning of cultural and national definitions is a pertinent one for Hong Kong, whose identity has been affected by the conflicting influences of Chinese and British colonialism.

He is part of a generation of artists - such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez - Peña, Pepón Osorio, and Papo Colo - who in the 1980s and»90s explored questions of ethnic, racial, and national identity in their work.

The works in the show pose questions about how symbols of national identity and social belonging are constituted, as well as what it might mean to shake free of them.

He questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions and he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today while condemning the excess of destruction due to the humans excess violence against the Earth.

Questions of nationality and aspiration to national identity are opened up and recorded.

From New York, throughout the 1990s and 2000s, her work has been positioned in multiple platforms, reinforcing the globalized art world's questions of geography, cultural and national identity, discipline, and form.

The exhibition — which contextualizes drawing as part of her broader consideration of photographic and film representation — shows how drawing can revisit, question and change images used for personal, cultural and national identity.

The exhibition addresses the instability, not only of immigrant or host identities, national and ethnic identities, but also of the questions of identity within and beyond the realm of art.

In the show, Batalov presents his audience members with his actual immigration papers, raising questions around the status of documents and the performance of national identity in contemporary culture.

In honor of National Women's History Month, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) spotlights five stellar women artists whose potent work and individual practices celebrate womanhood and female autonomy, call into question responses to gender parity, and transcend traditional conceptions of gender identity to address broader issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and tolerance for all humans.

On display at the National Portrait Gallery beginning August 22 is «Portraiture Now: Staging the Self,» a bilingual exhibit in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center that examines the works of Latino artists across a variety of media, questioning the idea that portraits can represent individuals» identities.

These include the nature and prominence of the political symbols in question, the work being carried out by the employee and, somewhat vaguely, the «national identity» of the country in question.

The most fascinating question is whether for the first time the ECJ will authorise a national court to disapply an EU legal provision to protect its national constitutional identity or higher national standards of fundamental rights» protection.

In addition, it precludes the national courts from detaining irregular migrants solely because the third - country national in question lacks identity documents.

The first question concerned the applicability of the Regulation to national identity cards.

The question is then: why has the CJEU decided to label the interpretation of the principle of legality as a common constitutional tradition instead of as an element of national constitutional identity?

The National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers,» DHS wrote in response to specific questions Wyden sent them last November.