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Nostalgia and populism

This chapter explores the role of nostalgia as a driver of the rise of populist attitudes and parties around the world. Both right- and left-wing populists use nostalgia to create a sense of “us versus them,” harking back to a utopian past they promise ...
Elçi, Ezgi
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
wiley   +1 more source

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

, 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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Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Range and Impact of Visitor Experiences at Science Museums

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the core mission of science museums is to provide engaging learning experiences that promote scientific literacy among the visiting public, attention has recently been focused on the wide range of visitor experiences that surround and support visitor learning.
Jan Packer
wiley   +1 more source

Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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Guises of Despair

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Is Hope A Secular Virtue?’ (2024), Bob Stern and I argued that despairing involves being unable to stop desiring something we deem of great value while believing that this good can neither be obtained, nor return on its own. We characterised despair as one of the two vices hope sits between as a virtue (the opposite vice being unwarranted ...
Béatrice Han‐Pile
wiley   +1 more source

“I stopped liking the country I was born in – the motherland”: Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in the Israeli Works of Kalman Segal

Studia Judaica
The subject of reflection in this article is the Israeli period in the work of Polish-Yiddish writer Kalman Segal (1917–1980), who decided to emigrate to Israel after the antisemitic campaign inspired
Magdalena Ruta
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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli, Alfons van Marrewijk, Arne Carlsen   +2 more
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