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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust: Perspectives on the Dark Grotesque

open access: yes, 2018
Motivated by the surging interest in food studies, along with their multiple interdisciplinary areas of evolution, the book aims to be a pertinent study of the recent developments, with emphasis on the embodied stasis as derived from material phenomena ...
Andrada Danilescu
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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grotesque /

open access: yes, 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.Grotesquerie -- Groteskology; or, grotesque in theory -- Monstrous and grotesque -- Grotesque bodies -- Disharmony and transgression -- Attraction/repulsion -- Laughter and grotesque ...
Graulund, Rune,, Edwards, Justin D.
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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Rewilding's technological experiments: Virtual reality and scalable narratives of rewilding in the Scottish highlands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
wiley   +1 more source

The Gravity of the Grotesque

open access: yesBakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso, 2012
I propose to take the grotesque, both as a discursive genre and a cultural attitude and practice, as a point of departure that allows us to comment more widely on Bakhtin‘s Rabelais book and its significance for current debates on subjectivity.
Galin Tihanov
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Saving the Grotesque: The Grotesque System of Liberation in British Modernism (1922-1932) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This dissertation re-situates the grotesque in a critical tradition that emphasizes its function as a liberating force, rather than its traditional role as an arouser of terror and amusement.
Henningsen, Matthew
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Screening Surface Modifications to Benzene to Improve Solubility in Hydroxyl‐Terminated Polybutadiene (HTPB)—A DFT Demonstration

open access: yesPropellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the advantage of computationally pre‐screening surface‐modifying material candidates, using density functional theory (DFT), to inform experimental synthesis and formulation efforts. This demonstration focuses on improving the solubility of benzene‐based materials in hydroxyl‐terminated ...
Samantha E. Knoth
wiley   +1 more source

Prohibited Plants: Converging Sustainability Transitions and Local Development in ‘Left‐Behind Places’

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
wiley   +1 more source

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