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There’s No Nostalgia Like Hollywood Nostalgia
This essay argues that the complexities of the nostalgic impulse in Hollywood cinema are inadequately described by Svetlana Boym’s particular description of Hollywood as “both induc[ing] nostalgia and offer[ing] a tranquilizer” and her ...
Thomas Leitch
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia
This book examines the feeling that we often refer to as ‘nostalgia’ from the perspective of writers and artists located on the (imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet) periphery of Russian culture who regard the center of the culture from which they have ...
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Nostalgia (nostos ‘return home’ plus algia ‘longing’), first diagnosed and named in the seventeenth century, was a disease that, as Svetlana Boym points out, became less curable and more mysterious in its pathology as time passed, resistant to reason and
Howell, Amanda
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If I could turn back time: The authoritarian connection to nostalgia
Comparative politics scholars have long noted the presence of authoritarian nostalgia in emerging democracies. In this paper, we explore how the combination of nostalgia and authoritarianism influenced public attitudes within the U.S.
Spencer Goidel, Kirby Goidel
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Nostalgia Proneness and the Collective Self
In two studies, we examined the association between nostalgia proneness (i.e., trait-level nostalgia) and importance of the collective self. In Study 1, we tested and supported the hypothesis that nostalgia proneness is positively correlated with ...
Georgios Abakoumkin +2 more
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic
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
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Nostalgia as enabler of self-continuity
In 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young released their self-titled album containing the classic song "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." A particularly striking lyric from this song recommended: "Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now." This evocative
Sedikides, Constantine +4 more
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This blog accompanies the conference "Nostalgia. Historicising the Longing for the Past" that takes place at the German Historical Institut London from 1 to 3 October 2015.
Tobias Becker
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La nostalgia di cristianità del populismo latinoamericano
Se l’America Latina è il paradiso del populismo 1, e se il populismo esprime una nostalgia olistica 2, sillogismo vuole che la storia latinoamericana sia permeata di nostalgie populiste. Così è, infatti. Ma cos’è questo «populismo», perché questa
Loris Zanatta
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