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Cleon, Vicky Adrian Osoria
Cleon, Vicky Adrian Osoria
Culture, Society, and Praxis
A poem made in response to an artist's body of violent troubling work which depicts black persons committing the majority of the violence. It is also about the worldview that blackness is inherently violent stemming from colonial and racist constructs. Those with darker skin colors are always met with a lot of discrimination but when they try to get away from the stereotypes or any form of structural violence they are met with more opposition when all they want is to be human.
Film, Arts And Culture As Community Outreach Tools: Perspectives From Singapore, Victor Yu
Film, Arts And Culture As Community Outreach Tools: Perspectives From Singapore, Victor Yu
Culture, Society, and Praxis
This article focuses on the Singapore’s government using the film and arts both as an economic as well as a community outreach tool. It argues that the evolution of the state arts policy is a function of the economic policy. Its “Creative City” approach is both economically-driven as well as arts-centered. At the same time, policy makers have introduced many strategies to build a vibrant film and arts sector to make the arts more accessible to the community. Cinemas and arts institutions also are seeking ways to increase the public’s access and exposure to their activities.
Cultures Of Class Stratification, Shenoa Lawrence
Cultures Of Class Stratification, Shenoa Lawrence
Culture, Society, and Praxis
This essay was written to explore cultural similarities and differences in my life to that of a Cambodian girl during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Superficially, no similarities are evident. However, every culture has some element of class stratification, and delving deeper into my life and her life provided enlightenment into some similarities.
Colonial Legacies In Morocco’S Urban Spaces: Policies Of Modernization And Preservation, Christina Gnedash
Colonial Legacies In Morocco’S Urban Spaces: Policies Of Modernization And Preservation, Christina Gnedash
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
Globalization has touched Morocco through the historical process of colonization. Though the colonizer has left, a relationship remains and Morocco like many other countries is far too entangled in the global system of economics and politics to withdrawal. The restructuring of urban spaces and the preservation of cultural and historical sites have contributed to the country’s economic dependence on and the expansion of the tourist industry at the expense of local communities and certain industries. Culture has become a commodity that is profitable and thus countries besides Morocco continue to present an inauthentic and static experience for visitors that perpetuates …
Corrupting Roots: The Impact Of Neoliberalism And Seed Patent Laws On The Mapuche People Of Chile, Callahan Powell
Corrupting Roots: The Impact Of Neoliberalism And Seed Patent Laws On The Mapuche People Of Chile, Callahan Powell
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
In a globalizing world, indigenous communities are repeatedly targeted by development practices that threaten their cultural heritage and traditions. The Mapuche people of Chile are the largest indigenous group still occupying South America. Practices by wealthier nations, to include; seed patent laws, intellectual property right agreements, and development, have threatened the Mapuche and their deeply embedded cultural traditions. I use a critical approach, a main sociological research method, with a focus on the neoliberal regime of truth to analyze the consequences of development and capitalism to the indigenous Mapuche people. Through use of Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory, David Harvey’s …