Modern Civilization
A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication (such as writing).Civilizations are intimately associated with and often further defined by other socio-politico-economic characteristics, such as centralization, the domestication of both humans and other organisms, specialization of labour, culturally-ingrained ideologies of progress and supremacism, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming and expansionism.Historically, "a civilization" has often been understood as a larger and "more advanced" culture, in implied contrast to smaller, supposedly primitive cultures. In this broad sense, a civilization contrasts with non-centralized tribal societies, including …
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CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …
thousands of years to go off course with modern civilization. Elders point out that we depend on the …
CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 19 June 2023 English
Finally, the government’s handling of the sale of MTS to Bell seems to have set the pattern for telecommunications mergers of the future, since the Rogers takeover of Shaw appears …
shortest possible time the conveniences of modern civilization which involved heavy capital investments …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 13 June 2023 English
Future Horizons analyse le rôle des humanités numériques dans la transformation des sciences humaines en contextes canadiens. Des liens entre des enjeux thématiques et des techniques individuelles, entre la recherche …
Massolin as the Canadian Tory tradition: “Modern civilization […] characterized by an enormous increase …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 13 December 2022 English
Speaking for the ruling imperialist elite as Governor of the Bank of Canada, Macklem declares the economy is not for those who do the work and produce the goods and …
to wander through the dangerous jungle of modern civilization. In the 10 years of the new era, the CPC …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2022 English
Foxe, and Milton to argue that expanding literacy in the Renaissance was the impetus for modern civilization, turning a culture of arid logic and religious ceremonialism into a world of individual readers …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 18 October 2022 English
In October 1890, Eugene T. Kingsley’s life changed irrevocably when he was injured in a fall between two rail cars while working as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific Railway. …
thought to the vexations and anomalies of modern civilization.”66 To George B. Casey, a worker in Prince …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2022 English
For more than a century, posters, advertisements, and brochures have characterized Canada as a desirable tourist destination offering spectacular scenery, wild animals, outdoor recreation, and state-of-the-art accommodations. However, these explicitly …
illustrated-travel lecture as “a powerful factor in modern civilization.” The article also recognized the genre’s …
RI: Rideau Institute · 9 September 2021 English
This Saturday is the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that left 3000 dead and sparked the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. [...] The …
accepted values, norms, and principles of modern civilization. The GWOT has done just the opposite. Instead …
INN: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. · 30 August 2021 English
Gathering together powerful voices of feminist writers, peace activists, and matriarchal studies scholars from around the globe, The Legacy of Mothers reconceptualizes mothers, motherhood, and mothering as an alternative human …
maintain itself (Werlhof The Failure of Modern Civilization). Motherhood, Urbanism, and Community Let … arm of patriarchy (Werlhof The Failure of Modern Civilization), just as since the 1970s, the gay liberation … von Werlhof’s concept of the “failure of modern civilization” claims such a failure originates in several … “post-human” man. In other words, the failure of modern civilization consists in a utopic understanding of patriarchy … patriarchy as the deep structure behind modern civilization. Like Werlhof, Riane Eisler (The Chalice …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 February 2021 English
Meaning is all around us, but because of the way we live as moderns, we are mostly unable to perceive it. Or so say the Thinking and Singing poets, one …
so much of our predatory behaviour as a modern civilization. That they have re-imagined how human beings … gods and numinous powers whose existence modern civilization refuses to acknowledge. “A world that denies …
