Sentences with phrase «political systems of oppression»

Through drawing, performance, photography, sculpture, and video, Fabri seeks to create a space for discourse around social and political systems of oppression.

Fabri's artistic practice seeks to create a space for discourse around social and political systems of oppression through artworks that manifest in a range of mediums, including drawing, performance, photography, sculpture, and video.

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In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

Well, theology in southern Africa has had a political edge, because people have had to maintain their faith within a system of oppression which itself often had a Christian theological justification, as in South Africa.

There has long been a conviction in certain political and theological circles that capitalism itself as a system is to blame for much of the injustice, oppression and poverty in the world.

Symbol systems expose the structures of oppression (33) and therefore serve the political process, but the institutions themselves also need to be changed.

There students take courses in «culture and resistance» where they learn about «systems of oppression» and are taught to organize political action in their communities.

In these linked stories, she tackles - among other issues - poverty, political oppression, corruption, violence, women's rights, the class systems of Zimbabwe and the United States, and the problems of alienation at home and in a foreign land.

Inspired by a sense of global struggle against systems of oppression and the political rhetoric of Malcolm X, Chase - Riboud produced her first bronze and fabric sculpture in tribute to the slain human rights leader.

His works often reconstitute youth culture as a system against the terms of oppression, political discourse and war.

Meanwhile, as Cathy Cohen has written, «Many of us continue to search for a new political direction and agenda, one that... seeks to transform the basic fabric and hierarchies that allow systems of oppression to persist and operate efficiently.»