They argued that nation-states, with their predefined boundaries, were not the natural, quasi-biological containers of social, cultural, economic and political life.
They are the containers for our cultural ideals about gender (among everything else, like race, age, and sex).
After all, who has time to bridge cultural and lingual divides when that container of sweet and sour something is cooling by the second?
Across town, in the El Valle barrio, is Tiuna el Fuerte, a cultural center built from old shipping containers and covered in graffiti.
These politicians are using faith as an overarching container for the trappings of German cultural expression: their specific complaints have little to do with religious or theological debates and have more to do with immigrant languages, accents, and dress.
The city has a new neighbourhood, Somo; a shopping centre made from shipping containers, Cashel Mall; and pop-up bars and cultural venues.
In the last few years, several projects have envisaged hospitals not only as containers of functions, but also as expressions of cultural and social value.
Ai had painted the Han Dynasty-era vase to resemble a cheap modern-day container, an example of his long-standing interest in notions of cultural heritage, authenticity, and — appropriately enough — the value of art.
Towards the end of last year, for example, the world's first pop-up shopping mall Boxpark, using recycled shipping containers, made its appearance after plans for housing, retail and cultural development had been shelved.
Nursery production of container plants and greenhouse plant production mainly depends on a number of soilless cultural practices (Wilson et al. 2003; Younis et al. 2011).
