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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community
Abstract We show how technology and its temporal instantiations act as material‐relational mnemonic devices that provide temporal anchors for collective remembering in occupations and form the basis of what we call an 'occupational mnemonic community'.
Hamid Foroughi +2 more
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Cultural Absolutism and the Nostalgia for Community [PDF]
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
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‘We Can Win this Fight Together’: Memory and Cross‐Occupational Coordination
Abstract While scholars have studied coordination across occupational lines, they have yet to theorize how the memories held by those involved in such coordination might influence it. In this paper, we frame occupational groups as mnemonic communities – collectives for whom a shared understanding of the past constitutes their character – to explore the
Sung‐Chul Noh +2 more
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA
Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja +4 more
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Fever Dreaming on TikTok: A Conceptual Framework for Performative Nostalgia
Digital media technologies afford multiple modalities of nostalgia as communicative practices. Recognizing nostalgia’s potential to do things in, through, and by media, this article offers a processual framework to define and study nostalgia as ...
Viki Askounis Conner
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This essay considers some of the ways in which nostalgia figures in contemporary social theory as well as addresses the post/modern character of nostalgia.
Sarah Bracke
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Nostalgia: An impactful social emotion.
J. Juhl, Marios Biskas
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Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation
Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
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Nostalgia and Stories of Early Arrival Amongst the Turkish Diaspora in Broadmeadows
This article discusses how Turkish people in the suburb of Broadmeadows in Melbourne, Australia, construct nostalgia for their earlier days as migrants.
Orhan Karagoz
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Expert Memories: The Professional Construction of the Past and the Mnemonic Making of Occupations
Abstract This article introduces the special issue on occupations and memory in organizations. To foster increasing collaboration from scholars from both fields, we offer a general argument connecting memory and occupations on two levels. At the societal level, we show how memory experts, such as historians, archivists, and museologists, have played a ...
Diego M. Coraiola +4 more
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