Sentences with phrase «of social movements»

I call upon governments to recognize the role of these social movements in building a critical mass of responsible citizens, who help maintain checks and balances in society.

So in many cases, it's not simply the case that a person is going to work; they're also part of a social movement.

American political history is the story of social movements turning into political movements.

«The value of social movements and activism is to get you at the table,» the president said.

This autonomy which is a characteristic of the movement, does not mean that we are totally independent from the rest of the social movement.

These are issues in international relations, in the interplay of social movements and classes, and in political appeals.

Leaders of social movements often carefully calculate the social effect of their language.

Their responses were impressive and in essence called for the creation of a social movement.

His research focuses on the role of youth popular culture and pedagogy in the emergence of social movements.

In the first phase of this social movements project, we'll gradually release case studies of several social movements.

A broad coalition of social movements and civil society.

It may in fact be the origin of social movements — who later looking for a cause to justify their existence took on global warming.

Tracing the history of social movements in the United States and the Caribbean, Firelei Báez: Bloodlines presents a new body of work by Firelei Báez.

If voters, journalists, academics and members of social movements mobilize in favour of reform, self - interested politicians will be forced into the spotlight and challenged.

My mother, in particular, talked openly to me about civil rights for people of color (as well as native people of this country, who my mother felt very passionately about... but that's a whole other article), her objections to the war in Vietnam, feminism and her participation in marches in support of these social movements.

Her installations and public projects often employ the iconography of social movements and their residual documents to inter - rogate contemporary political engagement and social dialogue.

draws on the experiences and struggles of social movements for the defence of indigenous and native seeds in Ecuador, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Colombia, and Guatemala.

The final panel explored the tactics of social movements operating outside the state apparatus in their resistance to neoliberalism with reference to examples from Egypt, Colombia, the UK, and Bolivia.

«What it's about is converting the Labour party into much more of a social movement and an awful lot of people have joined the party since the election — we've now got 250,000 members, probably 50,000 signed up as supporters.

One never hears of the Cochabamba Declaration, Herman Daly's proposals for a steady state economy, or the demands of social movement organizations for «System Change, not Climate Change» in the dominant media outlets.

Several Human Rights organizations working in Brazil — including Amnesty, Conectas and Article 19 — have raised serious concerns about the escalating violence and how it is being used as an excuse towards an increased criminalization of social movements.

Dowd wrote that she believes «Sandberg has co-opted the vocabulary and romance of a social movement not to sell a cause, but herself.»

200 years into the future, religion will probably have dropped GOD and JESUS as their focus and will probably morph into a kind of social movement that denounces the injustices of future societies.

In those days, any sort of social movement had to be claimed to be supported by the Bible.

Similarly, though perhaps less impressively, education is the key to every other form of social movement with a determinate set of guiding principles.

Scholars of social movements have found that before people become politically active they need three particular types of understandings, or «frames» through which to view the issue at hand.

Wagner devotes much attention to the failure of the social movement in the 1960s and suggests that it turned out the right way.

The drinks industry charity The Benevolent has decided to be part of a social movement aimed at changing the perception of mental health difficulties and advocating for stigma - free conversations in the workplace.

The evolving nature of the social movements has injected a great deal of uncertainty in the region, and especially the foreign ministries of key players like Iran, Turkey and Israel.

«Jeremy has often emphasised he is a different kind of leader for a different kind of politics, the head of a social movement, receptive to democracy from below,» Tom Gann from Southwark Momentum said today.

Its supporters insist that it wants to transform Labour into an outward - looking, mass campaigning party that can tap the energy and idealism of social movements and pressure groups to promote a more equal and socially just society.

Born in Tuscany, an Italian region with a long tradition of social movements, Leonardo Menchini (pictured at top) traces his interest in equity issues to high school.

«The fact that such efforts continued to predict partisan allegiances decades later demonstrates how the impact of a social movement can endure long after the movement itself has declined, as well as providing a new explanation of political polarization in the U.S.»

While not as popular as «Halloween» or «The Thing,» John Carpenter's «They Live» remains as timely and relevant today as it was back in 1988, especially when viewed in the context of social movements like Occupy Wall Street.

For those readers who may have only a dim recollection of their study of European history, Luddites (named for their leader, Ned Ludd) were members of a social movement of English textile workers in the Midlands of England in the early 1800s.

A high school history teacher centers a study of social movements on the fight over the Mexican American Studies program in Tucson.

The Democratic Party has been called «the graveyard of social movements» for a reason, because once you accept the idea that defeating the Republicans is the most important political strategy, it makes sense to prioritize that over everything else.

This project substantially overlaps with ACE's other research goals, such as our social justice movement research and animal welfare research projects, insofar as many of the library entries cover the field of social movement studies as well as the latest animal welfare science.

Although she had an individual exhibition of her work in 1948 in Washington, D.C., [3] her work did not begin to be shown regularly until the 1960s and 1970s, almost entirely in the United States, [3][16] where it drew interest because of social movements such as the Black Arts Movement and feminism.

While Bruguera's most recent work often uses the strategies of social movements and education platforms to address topical matters, this exhibition looks back to Untitled (Havana, 2000) as a crucial work at the turn of the millennium that symbolizes an important shift in Bruguera's oeuvre, as she moved from working primarily with her own body to considering active audience engagement.

Indeed, in the post-civil-rights era of the 1970s, whereby black people had achieved the designated outcome of full - citizenship rights through the discourse of social movements, Andrews's use of art and art production as a tool of resistance and reinforcement of the narratives that mattered to «the folks» is significant.