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The real reason Yes Scotland avoids Braveheart nostalgia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In 1998 Alex Salmond dismissed doubts over Scotland’s Celtic lineage as “ignorance bordering on silliness”. In 2007 he expounded a vision of the country as a “Celtic lion” economy.
Marsden, Richard
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The divided continent: Understanding Europe’s social landscape in 2020 and beyond. European Policy Centre 11 February 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The political upheaval and dysfunction of recent years have focused political minds on better understanding the volatility underpinning European electorates.
Gaston, Sophia
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Nostalgia for What and to What End? Multi-Dimensional National Nostalgia and its Relationship With National Identification and Political Preferences

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology
Research on group-based nostalgia has begun exploring how different ways of representing the pasts shapes our group belonging and political preferences. So far, this body of work has focused on measuring levels of nostalgia, at the expense of considering
Sandra Obradović, Denise Baron
doaj   +1 more source

The torment of exile and the aesthetics of nostalgia : transnational Chinese neo-romanticism in Xu Xu’s post-war fiction

open access: yes, 2018
Physical exile certainly was a painful reality for Xu Xu. Restorative nostalgia might to some extent have informed his literary activity in those years. However, nostalgia in Xu Xu’s postwar fiction, I will argue in this paper, constitutes above all the ...
GREEN, Frederik H.
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

A grounded theory analysis of the occupational impact of caring for a partner who has multiple sclerosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Chronic progressive conditions such as multiple sclerosis impact engagement in and orchestration of daily occupations by people with the condition, and their family members.
Gough, B, Heward, K, Molineaux, M
core   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of nostalgia on consumer preference

open access: yesSA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 1999
The main objectives of this study were to investigate the influence of nostalgia on consumer preference and to measure levels of nostalgia amongst multicultural groups.
G. G. Rousseau, D. J. L. Venter
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring how men's physical activity behaviour changes during and after the Australian Fans-In-Training (Aussie-FIT) program: A qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Health Psychol
Abstract Objectives Sufficient physical activity (PA) reduces the risk of chronic disease. In Australia, men experience higher rates of overweight, obesity and cardiovascular disease than women. Gender‐sensitized PA interventions like Australian Fans‐In‐Training (Aussie‐FIT) leverage men's interest in sport to promote behaviour change and have shown ...
Smith BJ   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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