Results 81 to 90 of about 2,912,285 (273)

El tiempo en una novela nostálgica: La aldea perdida de Armando Palacio Valdés

open access: yesVerba Hispanica, 2012
La nostalgia es un elemento clave de la novela del asturiano A. Palacio Valdés. La recurrencia continua del narrador a un tiempo pasado, «feliz» y «arcadiano», sirve para que nos planteemos hasta qué punto tiempo y espacio van íntimamente ligados en ...
María Eloína García García
doaj   +1 more source

Historical Nostalgia, Personal Nostalgia, and the Kidult:  Comparing Older and Younger Consumers

open access: yesJournal of Business Strategies
Nostalgia, a longing for the past, has been used successfully by marketers via nostalgia marketing or retro-marketing, including retro-branding, of goods and/or services. The nostalgia market has stereotypically been of interest to older consumers so it is surprising that a significant number of Generation Y (Millennials) and Generation Z consumers ...
openaire   +1 more source

Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia

open access: yes, 2015
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 ...

core   +1 more source

Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Past: A Literature Review of Psychological Studies on Collective Nostalgia and National Nostalgia

open access: yes, 2023
reservedQuesta tesi si concentra sull'utilizzo della nostalgia in politica e sui suoi effetti sulle attitudini e i comportamenti politici e le relazioni intergruppi. La nostalgia, intesa come emozione complessa radicata nei ricordi personali e collettivi,
NGOTA, SIBORA
core  

When sharing becomes shameful: atmospheres of class formation in Namibia Quand le partage devient honteux : ambiances de formation de classes en Namibie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
wiley   +1 more source

“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
doaj   +1 more source

“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Poetics of Detachment: The Role of Nostalgia in Patrick Kavanagh’s Christmas Poems (1939-1943) [PDF]

open access: yesEstudios Irlandeses
Between 1939 and 1943, Patrick Kavanagh wrote a series of poems around the theme of Christmas that set forth the enabling role of nostalgia in the transmission of hope in times of trouble. Commonly experienced as a longing for the past, nostalgia appears
Isabelle Fratani
doaj  

The Social Use of Yorùbá Personal Names

open access: yesNames, 2010
This study examines the principles and practice involved in the clipping of Yorùbá personal names based on the preference of either the addressee or the speaker.
Reuben O Ikotun
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy