Leniniana and Yugonostalgia: A Visual Study on Post-Socialist Identity and Cultural Memory
This study aims to examine the relationship between post-socialist identity construction and cultural memory through Leniniana and Yugonostalgia, based on an interdisciplinary visual analysis method.
Samet Yerköy
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The Power of the Past How Nostalgia Shapes European Public Opinion. eupinions #2018/2 [PDF]
The Eurozone crisis has pushed reform of the European Union (EU) to the forefront of political debate. How can a Union of 28 states with a population of over half a billion be reformed to weather future economic crises and political challenges?
de Vries, Catherine, Hoffmann, Isabell
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Retrospection and separation: Narratives of nostalgia among rural students in Chinese universities
The phenomenon of rural-origin university students expressing nostalgia and sharing it through online platforms has become a growing behavior amid rapid globalization and urbanization. This study aims to explore the factors influencing this behavior and
Longhua Song, Yufeng Chen, Haoran Xu
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of rural aesthetics and cultural practises in promoting active ageing amongst older adults in Baan Pong Nuea Village, Northern Thailand. Addressing a critical gap in the literature, it examines how the residential environment influences elderly well‐being in a rural context.
Alisa Nutley
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Istanbul nostalgia : collective memory of conservative women
Bu çalışmada muhafazakâr kadınların İstanbul’a dair mekân aidiyetlerine, toplumsal hafıza bağlamında eski güzel İstanbul nostaljisi algılarına odaklanılmıştır. Bunun için 20-40 yaş grubundan 7 kadınla, 60 yaş ve üzeri 7 kadınla mülakat yöntemi ile görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir.
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Colonial Figures: Memories of Street Traders in the Colonial and Early Post-colonial Periods [PDF]
This article explores post-colonial memories about street traders among individuals who lived in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies. It argues that these narratives romanticize the relationship between Europeans and indigenous peoples.
Gibbings, Sheri Lynn, Steijlen, Fridus
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Diaspora and tourism: Transylvanian Saxons visiting the homeland [PDF]
This paper discusses visits to the homeland made by Transylvanian Saxons and their descendants, now mainly living in Germany, after their emigration from the former Saxon areas of Transylvania (Romania). The aim is to understand what compels those people
Corsale Andrea, Iorio Monica
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis
Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
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Towards a Poetics of Detachment: The Role of Nostalgia in Patrick Kavanagh’s Christmas Poems (1939-1943) [PDF]
Between 1939 and 1943, Patrick Kavanagh wrote a series of poems around the theme of Christmas that set forth the enabling role of nostalgia in the transmission of hope in times of trouble. Commonly experienced as a longing for the past, nostalgia appears
Isabelle Fratani
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