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This paper focuses on the former Austrian crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria and its return in literary texts of a new generation that can recall it only from collective and family memory.
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
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Moving Ahead into the Past: Historical Contexts in Recent Polish Cinema [PDF]
Moving Ahead into the Past: Historical Contexts in Recent Polish CinemaThe article looks at treatments of Poland’s 20th-century history in Polish films made over the last several years.
Anessi, Thomas
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Time and space of nostalgia [PDF]
This article analyzes the theoretical approaches to the investigation of nostalgia in the social sciences. Growth of interest in the past and the phenomenon of collective memory opened the discussion of nostalgia as an important element of interaction of
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Collective Nostalgia as a Balm for the Distressed Social Identity
Group history provides the experiential building blocks that shape social identity. When contemporary events are perceived as having created (or creating) a discontinuity with that history, collective nostalgia is likely to be elicited. Importantly, collective nostalgia is functional—it consolidates social identity, motivating group members to support ...
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Collective Memory and Nostalgia in the Dutch Radio2 Top2000 Chart 1999-2013 [PDF]
The paper analyses the impact of age on the ranking of recorded popular songs in the Dutch Radio2 Top2000 chart in the years 1999-2013. We measure the competition between the loss of collective memory and nostalgia with respect to popular songs.
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Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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“Suffered Side by Side”: Dynamics of Trauma and Nostalgia in Post-Communist Romania
How do trauma and nostalgia interact in Romania today? What stories about the communist past do their discourses enable? In the wake of 1989 up until today, the trauma-of-oppression narrative has dominated public and official discourses as the legitimate
Claudia Partac
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This article focuses on Richard Ford’s short story “Calling,” collected in the volume entitled A Multitude of Sins (2001). It consists of the detailed recalling by a first-person narrator, from the vantage point of adulthood, of a duck-hunting outing ...
Marie-Agnès Gay
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Tourist attraction? Or reverence – The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum. A case study of the tensions between intent and presentation [PDF]
The military museum has in the last quarter of the 20th Century undergone a transformation in Western societies. The military museum has become less concerned with remembrance and more concerned with education and analysis.
Cardow, Andrew, Emerson, Alistair
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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