Sentences with phrase «organized around identity»

In contexts where political actors — be they parties or civil society — are organized around identity, programmes that deal with substantive topics often have a better chance of success.

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Part of the intention was to minimize religious identity and organize national life around ethnicity instead.

Perhaps one could say that P. had become habituated to a life organized around music, and that when he generated music a system of identity - sustaining habits came into play.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Where parties are organized on a programmatic basis, rather than around identity, it can be difficult to employ an issue - based approach while avoiding perceptions of bias.

In Laclau's (1996) terms, one can argue that in Islamist politics, Ummah acts as an «empty signifier» around which different particularities are organized to claim a common universal identity.

Her work is conceptually organized around the construction of image, language, narrative, and space, and she has often probed individual identity and the boundaries of the subject in relation to the external world.

The exhibition offers an overview of art made in the United States between 1989 and 2001 — from the fall of Communism to 9/11 — and is organized around three principle themes: the so - called «identity politics» debates; the digital revolution; and globalization.

John Waters: Indecent Exposure is organized around themes of popular culture, the movie industry, the contemporary art world, the artist's childhood and identity, and the transgressive power of images.

NMWA's summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World is organized around three themes: Constructing Identities, Deconstructing Orientalism, and New Documentary.

Many of the artist's works evoke his African - American identity and the broader struggle for civil rights, from sculptures incorporating fire hoses, to events organized around soul food, and choral performances by the experimental musical ensemble Black Monks of Mississippi, led by Gates himself.

In addition, Sasse organized the works around seven engaging themes: clothing in relation to religion, society, desire, power, transformation, identity, and absence.

The curators also traveled around the country and the world to see how places like Tate Britain in London and the Phillips Collection in Washington, museums devoted to a specific national identity, organized their collections.

In addition to Internet art in the Aughts that simulated a series of imagined art installations, Ichikawa has created has a series of blogs on Facebook around food organized by color, touching upon issues of cultural identity, food sourcing, gentrification, environmental concerns, and greenwashing while sharing nutrition and cost - cutting tips: I ♥ Yellow Food, I ♥ Orange Food, I ♥ Red Food, I ♥ Green Food, and I ♥ Blue Food.

Recent highlights include Building Bridges, a group show of 26 artists organized around the theme of creating a peaceful global community that transcends borders, religions, sexual identity, race and gender.

Snap Judgments explores African photography in terms of content and style, organized into four main thematic groups that reflect the issues addressed by African artists today — landscape; urban formations; the body and identity; and history and representation — around which Africa's experimental artists have articulated individual artistic styles and languages.

The exhibition is organized around five themes — movement, sequence, narrative, studio, and identity — found in the work of Muybridge and Stieglitz.

CAM senior curator Dana Friis - Hansen made his mark with shows organized around such notions as «cross-cultural identity» and «the other.»