The movie is, in part, a musical, featuring exhilarating performances by Beya and her band in night-club scenes roiled with dance, alcohol, and eros, and perched on the edge of violence — but it's all the more an incisive work of sociopolitical analysis, focussed on the health-care system of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dr. Shakow's research focuses on sociopolitical constructions of illness and their impact on international relations.
He completed his PhD in comparative politics at the London School of Economics, where his research focused on sociopolitical change in Turkey and Iran.
Rather than focus on the sociopolitical climate that surrounded a perfume's initial emergence onto the market, that book traffics in something closer to auteur theory, explaining that readers should think of perfumes as compositions, tracing the stories of the evolving personal aesthetics of different perfumers who are guided by different schools of influence.
As a rough heuristic guide, some commentators have suggested that the Daojing is more "metaphysical," whereas the Dejing focuses more on sociopolitical issues.
Because many disasters are sociopolitical constructions, it is not enough to focus solely on adaptive capacity: transformative capacity is also critical.
Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes and sociopolitical concerns.
Mobile home residents are a highly vulnerable subpopulation in South Florida that merit further study focused on the improvement of sociopolitical engagement and reduction of exposure to climate change and sea level rise.
The concept of social remittances opened a new field for migration studies and triggered a welcomed shift in research focus from the economic to the sociopolitical implications of human mobility.
While some early Ru scholars emphasize in their interpretation of "virtue" the roles and responsibilities embedded in the network of kinship ties and sociopolitical relationships that constitute the ethical realm, others focus on the formation of individual moral character through self-cultivation.
