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Affect and Nostalgia in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2015
This article examines the affective terrain of Poland, Canada, and the US in Eva Hoffman’s autobiographical account of her migration and exile in Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1989), the text that launched Hoffman’s reputation as a ...
Kella Elizabeth
doaj   +1 more source

Perras, marginalidad y violencia en el teatro argentino del siglo XXI [PDF]

, 2013
In this essay I examine the play Perras (2002), a joint work by Néstor Caniglia, Enrique Federman, Mauricio Kartun, and Claudio Martínez Bel, which demonstrates in a crude and bestial way the degeneration and transformation of the marginalized in post ...
Zalba, Rocío
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Carescapes in South Korea: The Migration–Care–Policy Circuit Developed During Urbanisation and Globalisation

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how outsourcing household care in modern South Korea has shaped gendered migration from both rural areas and abroad. To clarify the interplay between macro‐level power and individual lives—an aspect often treated piecemeal in earlier research—it introduces the concept of circular carescapes. This notion captures the looping
Junyoung Park, HaeRan Shin
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Home Territories During Housing Relocation: Affects and Activity Rhythms

Area, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper expands understandings of home by developing the concept of home territory to comprehend the experiences of older adults who experienced housing relocation and how they reconstituted a sense of home. The study draws on the experiences of 41 older adults who underwent the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) in Singapore ...
Siyao Gao, Elaine Lynn‐Ee Ho
wiley   +1 more source

Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery" [PDF]

, 2014
This essay suggests memory studies, ecocriticism, and trauma studies as new avenues for the study of rusticated youth narratives. Towards reaching this goal, I first introduce a meditation on memory by Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), especially his sketch of ...
Scruggs, BM
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis

Area, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment and support of the digitalization of businesses in Europe during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020–2021 has created an unprecedented incentive to digitize firms. This paper aims to explore how European companies may have responded to COVID‐19 through digitalization. An online survey of experts from 22 European countries showed that software technologies supporting online meetings, remote working and e‐commerce ...
Wojciech Dyba, Eleonora Di Maria
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola, Eemeli J. Hakoköngäs, Jari Martikainen, Iida Pyy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source