For Mr. Haozous, the survival of American Indian art -- and culture -- depends less on adequate gallery or institutional representation than on the ability of his people to define themselves beyond belonging to a certain tribe or territory.
The students' president Ramabina Mahapa said: "I understand it is part of history, but the institutional representation of black people at this university is negative.
acThe issues related to institutional representation, moreover, are a long-time concern for the Italian cities, regardless of their demographic density and their extension.
Odd to say, but as proven by political voting behavior, it is also the middle and upper middle-class who are most aloof from political activism or from structured institutional representation.
Sexual racism is far from the only way queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) experience discrimination just ask them about the social exclusion, LGBTQ media erasure, systemic violence, legal discrimination, and lack of institutional representation they face daily, among other struggles.
If it is not national but supranational powers that rule today's globalization, however, we must recognize that this new order has no democratic institutional mechanisms for representation, as nation-states do: no elections, no public forum for debate.
The bottom line, however, remains the will of the people, and any substantive change in the present institutional arrangements for representation calls for approval through an expression of the popular will.
While it is clear that representative institutions are vital institutional components of democratic institutions, much more needs to be said about the meaning of democratic representation.
Calpers, the California state employees pension fund, wants a guarantee of future representation for institutional investors.
The fund manager's latest Capitalism Survey revealed that less than a quarter of institutional investors believe female representation at board level to be important.
