Sentences with phrase «shaped national identity»

Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol is the first exhibition linking Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, two iconic visual communicators who embraced populism, shaped national identity, and opened new ways of seeing in twentieth century America.

These ideas shaped my undergraduate thesis at Harvard College where I looked at how Canadian history was taught differently in English and in French and how these understandings of the past shaped national identity in the present.

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

Module 9 celebrates the historical and contemporary contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Australian society and provides an insight into how these contributions have played (and continue to play) a valuable role in shaping our national identity.

Not exact matches

Undertaking to shape Russian national identity, the Church promotes patriotism and traditional values in coordination with government propaganda.

The result is contestations of established state - centric, uniformly hierarchical structures and homogenised «national» discourses of identity, with city - regions reduced to merely a subordinate and therefore dependent actor when it comes to shaping national and, increasingly, international agendas.

They come to understand how personal, group and national identities are shaped, and the variable and changing nature of culture.

With major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Festival of Books presents «Our Histories of Race and Ethnicity,» a rich and challenging track of sessions examining the ways in which our ethnic and racial identities shape us as individuals and as members of community.

By bringing together Internet imagery with the symbol of the flag, the work makes a statement about the democratization of information in contemporary society and the role of popular imagery in the shaping of national identity.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

Instead we are offered a captivating glimpse of difference and individuality - a national identity shaped by a legacy of Empire and migration.

According to a release, participants will «explore the ways in which the politics of race are changing in America and France in a time of both growing extremism and the rise of activist movements like Black Lives Matter; what the rise of the populist right in both countries means for national identity; and what both countries» attitudes toward immigration have done to shape its interaction with the broader world.»

In her work, Aleksandra Domanović takes a probing look at a wide range of phenomena of contemporary society, among them cultural techniques, scientific and technological developments, history and culture, popular culture and the shaping of national and cultural identity.

Freedom of assembly is one of the rights Americans take for granted; Opie is interested in the way that sites, such as the National Mall in Washington, D.C., come to be defined by the groups of people who assemble there and how their gathering shapes the identity of the place.

And NZ has other related defining moments which have helped shaped it's national identity, including declaring the country a Nuclear Free Zone, which caused the US to downgrade their status from ally to «friend».

The temptation to shape any policy on the basis of an assumption of the direction which the «national identity» is taking is to be resisted, not least since the actual form which the UK's post-Brexit laws will take very much remains to be seen.