Sentences with phrase «social activism including»

While teaching in the 1970's at Fresno State College (now California State University, Fresco), a hotbed of political and social activism including the first outpost of the Feminist Art Project, Gaines initially executed meticulous graphs with tiny numbers that determined that execution of the work.

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As a social movement scholar and someone who believes we should leverage all assets in a challenge, I know that much social good can come from mass involvement - and research shows that includes online activism.

Although initially interested in agriculture he became increasingly involved in politics and social activism in response to federal regulation of the agriculture industry, including legislation relating to the Canadian Wheat Board.

In response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union movement.

This standardization was the product of many factors, including: (1) professional politics within the mental health community, (2) increased gov involvement in mental health research and policymaking, (3) mounting pressure on psysts from health insurers to demonstrate the effectiveness of their practices,,,, Alan Stone, president of the APA in 1976, concluded that social psy and social activism, «carrying psyc on a mission to change the world, had brought the profession to the edge of extinction» (Wilson, 1993, p. 402)

His research interests include cross-national participation; developing tools for working with big data in social science; internet activism and participation; social network analysis; and election fraud.

He is a member of a number of organizations, including the Central - City Blenman Elm Neighborhood Association, Democrats of Greater of Tucson, Democratic Nucleus Club, Social Activism Committee of Grace Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Stonewall Democrats and the Transit on the Move Community Liaison Group.

Highlights include a section on activism and education strategies to motivate actors and agencies towards social justice.

Thanks to a canny social media presence — which has included messages to Chelsea Clinton — and progressive politics, satanism is an unlikely spiritual From Skype doctor's appointments to Twitter activism, social media is changing the world.

This can take a variety of forms, including teacher inquiry, as we find in Oakland, California, or social activism, as we find in Chicago, Illinois.

We will explore the different ways teacher educators can include issues of Social Justice in their curricula and we will discuss pedagogical approaches that can enhance student's critical consciousness and empower them to activism.

Creators Ben Katchor describes his work, which includes a regular strip for Metropolis magazine and his recent book Hand - Drying in America and Other Stories, as «a form of social activism» and adds, «You could blow things up too, but I don't really relish the thought of being in prison.

Image painting — here, a term to include a broad range of figurative and representational approaches — served as a vehicle for issues and activism: gender, First Nations culture, social injustice, and a global reckoning of environmental concerns.

The show tackles current topics, ranging from social media to political activism, using both traditional and new mediums, including painting, gaming, live performance and bookbinding.

A new exhibition, on view April 9 — August 21, 2011, entitled Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, in the Julien Levy Gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents work by nine artists who used photography to address some of the most salient political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early 1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gay activism.

Works variously informed by social and political questioning, countercultural histories, the deconstruction of media and art history images include sculpture by Eva Rothschild and installations by Alan Phelan and Garrett Phelan for whom political and ecological activism is central.

Unsettled presented work by nine artists who used photography to address some of the most controversial political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early 1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gay activism.

In five essays, renowned art historian and critic Terry Smith describes how today curators take on roles far beyond exhibition making, to include reimagining museums; writing the history of curating; creating discursive platforms and undertaking social or political activism, as well as rethinking spectatorship.

A new technology can often create change (including social and behavioural change) where legislation and social activism have failed or are taking too long.

Food & Water Watch's Board of Directors include leaders in activism with a focus on social justice and sustainability.

Her research and activism has centred on social justice issues including statelessness, immigration reform and public legal education.

Social and labour activism (and governments» fear of unrest) were essential forces in establishing modern workers» compensation systems, including Ontario's in 1914.

Well known for his political and social activism, the rapper has frequently spoken out on various topics including police brutality.

They covered diverse topics including refugees, mental health, social movements and activism, chronic illnesses and infectious diseases, inequities in data and health care provision, gender inequalities and family violence, screening and diagnostic tests, Indigenous health, the NDIS, health reform, and voluntary assisted dying, as well as philosophical questions.