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How to Think Critically about the Common Past? On the Feeling of Communism Nostalgia in Post-Revolutionary Romania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article proposes a phenomenological interpretation of nostalgia for communism, a collective feeling expressed typically in most Eastern European countries after the official fall of the communist regimes.
Marin, Lavinia
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Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Chinese embroideries have featured in British domestic interiors since at least the seventeenth century. However, Western imperial interests in China during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century created a particular set of meanings around ...
Baker Muriel   +7 more
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
wiley   +1 more source

Empathetic listening boosts nostalgia levels and positive emotions in autobiographical narrators

open access: yesHeliyon, 2020
Nostalgic memories serve to increase human resilience. Here, we hypothesized that emotional impressions on a narrator's nostalgic memory change depending on the level of empathy in the listener's response. This independent-measures study was conducted in
Eriko Sugimori   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Different Pasts for Different Political Folk: Political Orientation Predicts Collective Nostalgia Content

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2021
Collective nostalgia is a bittersweet emotion that reflects sentimental longing for valued aspects of the past of one’s group. Given that conservatism is typically associated with a general desire to preserve the societal status quo or return society to ...
Anna Stefaniak   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enabling effective urban green space stewardship through planning: A qualitative comparative analysis in Southwest England

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid increasing urbanisation and biodiversity decline, ‘effective stewardship’ of urban green space (UGS) is a complex but critical nature‐based solution for long‐term environmental, social and economic gain. Combining stewardship and sense‐of‐place frameworks with European nature‐based solutions guidance, we investigate which social and ...
Fay Kahane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nostalgia increases punitiveness by intensifying moral concern

open access: yesScientific Reports
We addressed the relation between nostalgia and moral judgment or behavior. We hypothesized that nostalgia, a social emotion, increases moral concern (H1), nostalgia intensifies punitiveness against moral transgressors (H2), and that the nostalgia ...
Jannine D. Lasaleta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People in Bulgaria and Greece – Cross-Validity of the Questionnaire SNEP and Cross-Cultural Comparison

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2017
Sentimentality and nostalgia are two similar psychological constructs, which play an important role in the emotional lives of elderly people who are usually focused on the past. There are two objectives of this study - making cross-cultural comparison of
Stanislava Yordanova Stoyanova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

This Won’t Last Forever: Benefits and Costs of Anticipatory Nostalgia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
What helps consumers extract the greatest happiness from their experiences? The current investigation is the first to introduce to the consumer literature the construct of anticipatory nostalgia, defined as missing aspects of the present before they ...
Xinyue Zhou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

What’s all the fuss about Disney? : narcissistic and nostalgic tendencies in popular Disney storyworlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper seeks to study the narcissistic and nostalgic desires cultivated in cinematic audiences by modern Disney story franchises. Through its storyworlds, the Disney conglomerate is a key player in the cultural formation and consciousness of global ...
Cremona, Maria
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