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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

Analog photography enhances identity, well-being, and social connection, in Southeastern China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

“I'm not in love, so don't forget it; it's just a silly phase I'm going through”: On (not) falling in love during fieldwork in Southwest China

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract During fieldwork, anthropologists engage in emotional, social and economic exchanges with interlocutors, through which to better understand one's own positionality and that of others. When such exchanges occur with an interlocutor who becomes a romantic lover, these exchanges are filtered through desire, amplifying their psychological ...
Suvi Rautio
wiley   +1 more source

"I belong to nowhere now": An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Pakistani migrant women's lived experiences of identity, nostalgia, exclusion and wellbeing in Norway. [PDF]

Womens Health (Lond)
Mehtab E, Anjum G, Grzymała-Moszczyńska H, Aziz M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

Positive emotions in fairy-tale reading: a text-mining study of nostalgia among adult purchasers from 1,428 online reviews. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Liu C, Feng T, Wang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

The return of the Bee Sultan: Vibrant encounters of environmentalism and language reclamation in Turkey's Hemshin lands

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-modal impacts of olfactory perception and individual differences in emotional responses to odors modulate hedonic evaluations of visual scenes. [PDF]

Chem Senses
Pacinotti L, Roberts C, Giesbrecht T, Fallon N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Semiotics and Nostalgia

Common sense understands nostalgia as a bittersweet, individual memory of a positive experience in the past, destined never to be repeated due to the irreversibility of time or, in the case of space, to the impossibility of the physical reconnection to ...
Mario Panico
core  

The Plagiarist in the Machine? Generative AI and the Will to Fail

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that the real challenge posed by Large Language Models (LLMs) in Higher Education lies not in their potential for plagiarism, but in their creation of a new form of writing that is indistinguishable in the traditional essay.
Matthew J. Barnard, Keith Crome
wiley   +1 more source