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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Nostalgia, identita e senso del tempo

open access: yesRevista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas, 2008
Il saggio si articola in tre partí: nella prima parte, attraverso la storia di questo sentimento, vengono analizzati alcuni nodi concettuali che rendono la nostalgia un sentímentocomplesso e che spiegano in parte la difficolta di una sua riabilitazione ...
Vita Fortunati
doaj  

“Suffered Side by Side”: Dynamics of Trauma and Nostalgia in Post-Communist Romania

open access: yesDiffractions
How do trauma and nostalgia interact in Romania today? What stories about the communist past do their discourses enable? In the wake of 1989 up until today, the trauma-of-oppression narrative has dominated public and official discourses as the legitimate
Claudia Partac
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Le ciel n'attend pas : dialogues avec l'invisible et voix angéliques dans A Prairie Home Companion de Robert Altman

open access: yesMise au Point, 2014
In the director's swan song, the last performance of a radio show provides a visual and auditory frame where human voices play the role of angelic musicians, while a female angel of death remains devoid of any transcendence.
Sandra Gorgievski
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on the Experience and the Effect of Nostalgia Seen through Andrei Tarkovsky's Film Nostalghia (1983)

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi
The aim of this research is the cultural, temporal, and spatial displacement of an individual from their native country as a trigger for nostalgia. Consequently, the material for this analysis is drawn from the artistic film Nostalghia (1983), the first ...
Vladimira Ilić
doaj   +1 more source

Amélie mellan fantasi och turistisk verklighet

open access: yesKulturella Perspektiv, 2003
The point of departure of this article is the notion that the movie Amélie from Montmartre (2001) is situated in a liminal space between nostalgic fantasy and touristic reality.
Sven-Erik Klinkmann
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal 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

The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
wiley   +1 more source

‘The White Hordes From the West’: Race and Refuge in Australian Media Commentary About White Rhodesians During Zimbabwe's Decolonisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source

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