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TROUBLED PASTS, RETROTOPIAS, AND WAR MOBILIZATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2022
After the horrific experiences of ex-Yugoslavia, the tragedy of Ukraine reveals the terrible consequences of the memory conflicts radicalization. Anticipated by a constant mnemonic war led by the Russia particularly against its Eastern neighbors, it ...
Alina IORGA
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Conflict-ing/-ed Neo-burlesque Bodies: From Nostalgia to Objectification and Back

open access: yesEx-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2020
From the first Girl Shows to the neo-burlesque spectacle, the representation of the female body was a conflicting/-ed ground in terms of format (eg. tableaux vivants, cooch and shimmy dancers or strippers) and genre transformations (eg.
Mariza Tzouni
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Aura versus Dialogue. Displaying Nazi Objects in the Exhibition "Disposing of Hitler: Out of the Cellar, Into the Museum"

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2023
What should we do with the remnants of Nazism? Should we dispose of them? Is it acceptable to sell them at a flea market or on the internet? At what point does memory become nostalgia, or even illegal neo-Nazi activity?
Louise Beckershaus   +5 more
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‘Once Below a Time.’ Dylan Thomas’ ‘Fern Hill’: An Aesthetic of Nostalgia and Nostalgia for an Aesthetic

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 2004
After considering the history of the notion of nostalgia from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries—notably its development from a painful disease to what is perceived by the present doxa as a self-indulgent emotion and aesthetic facility, the
Paul Volsik
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Nationhood and the (De)Construction of Mythical England in Ben Wheatley’s Kill List

open access: yesAmaltea: Revista de Mitocrítica, 2023
Arthurian mythology has often been employed to articulate notions of nationhood, identity, and nationalism. In the recent wave of nationalist nostalgia, myths, such as Arthur’s, have been put forth as core narratives to return to, articulating the ...
Diana Ortega Martin
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"If you go there - you who was never there:" On Contemporary Uses of the Memory of Slavery

open access: yesIperstoria, 2016
Kenneth Warren, in his controversial What Was African American Literature? (2011), argues that while African American literature was once “prospective,” contemporary black writing is “retrospective” and its obsessive preoccupation with the past is the ...
Anna Scacchi
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The Religion of Victory, the Cult of a Superpower. The Myth of the Great Patriotic War in the Contemporary Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

open access: yesReview (Institute of National Remembrance), 2021
The glorification of the Soviet victory over Nazism is the focal point of Russia’s politics of history and an element of the ideological offensive that aims to legitimise Russian great-power ambitions.
Maria Domańska
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Hegel sobre Tácito y la libertad teutona

open access: yesHYBRIS: Revista de Filosofía, 2015
Una investigación sobre la presencia (así como sobre la ausencia) de Tácito en Hegel es crucial para entender la posición política y filosófica de este pensador, especialmente en la época de Jena.
Valerio Rocco Lozano
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Central Europe as a (Neo-Conservative) Periphery: The Politics of Nostalgia Between Theory and Practice [PDF]

open access: yesMeđunarodna politika
The primary aim of this paper is to elucidate the influence of neo-conservative paradigms on the transformation of the political landscape in Central Europe, with a particular focus on four EU member states from the Visegrád Group.
Darko Baštovanović
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Historical imaginaries, historic urban branding, and the local state in China: rejuvenation discourse, manufactured heritage and simulacrascapes

open access: yesBuilt Heritage, 2023
This intervention examines the extant literature on historical imaginaries and historic urban branding in China. It suggests that while research in this field has increasingly moved away from an economic (or an implicit neo-Marxist) model, there is still
Andrew Malcolm Law
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