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Retrogaming, giocare con la nostalgia = Retrogaming, playing with nostalgia

H-ermes: Journal of Communication, 2016
The cultural practices related to video games - a relatively young communication medium - gained substantial relevance in the media system. They are characterized by a mix of regret and sadness because of the impossibility to go back to places, people ...
Emiliano Chirchiano
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The divided continent: Understanding Europe’s social landscape in 2020 and beyond. European Policy Centre 11 February 2020 [PDF]

, 2020
The political upheaval and dysfunction of recent years have focused political minds on better understanding the volatility underpinning European electorates.
Gaston, Sophia
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

“The Good Years Have Passed and Will Never Come Again”: Political Functions of Nostalgic Fantasies in Incel Discussions

Social Media + Society
This study unpacks the implicit and explicit political functions nostalgia takes in incel discussions on the past on the incels.is forum. By combining a discourse theoretical approach with the theoretical framework of fantasy, the study demonstrates how ...
Emilia Lounela, Shane Murphy, Ümit Bedretdin   +2 more
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Političko nesvesno postmodernističkog filma nostalgije / Political Unconscious of Postmodernist Nostalgia Film

AM: Art + Media, 2012
In this paper I will engage in the theory of American Marxist Fredric Jameson. To begin with I will give an overview of his Marxistic hermenautics and his concept of political unconscious.
Rade Pantić
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The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds [PDF]

, 2013
The communicative potential of city spaces as leisure spaces is a central assumption of political activism and the creation of alternative, counter-cultural and subcultural scenes. However, such potential for city spaces is limited by the gentrification,
Anna Richter, Beer U., Beer U., Beverley Spracklen, Bittner R., Blackshaw T., Bramham P., Carr S., Castells M., Clarke J., Dangerfield G., Debord G., Deem R., Graham S., Karl Spracklen, Klein N., Lefebvre H., Long J., Minton A., Parker S., Parker S., Paton K., Ravenscroft N., Roberts K., Rojek C., Scott A., Smigel E., Veblen T., Weber M., Wetterer A.   +29 more
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
wiley   +1 more source

The More She Longs for Home, the Farther Away it Appears: A Paradox of Nostalgia in a Fulani Immigrant Girl’s Life

, 2012
Nostalgia, which is derived from the Greek words nos (returning home) and algia (pain), refers to longing for the loss of the familiar (Kaplan, 1987).
Miyazawa, Kaoru
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Exploring the Influence of Personal Identity and Nostalgia on Memory Reconstruction in Thomas Brussig’s Sonnenallee (Sun Avenue) [PDF]

, 2011
Thomas Brussig ends his novel Sonnenallee with the following sentiment: Glueckliche Menschen haben ein schlechtes Gedaechtnis und reiche Erinnerungen [loose translation: Happy people have a bad memory and rich (or abundant) memories ].
German, Emily
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