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Koetz, Clara, and John Daniel Tankersley. "Nostalgia in online brand communities." Journal of Business Strategy 37, no. 3 (May 16, 2016): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbs-03-2015-0025.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of a subculture of consumption organized toward a nostalgic brand on a social media platform. More specifically, the authors examine the role of these nostalgic feelings in the development of a community identity and the benefits they promote in the creation and perpetuation of this group. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a netnographic study to examine the case of Caloi 10 on Facebook. The data collection was carried out by following interactions among members of this community for seven months. Besides this, field observations and interviews were also considered in the analysis. Findings Four categories emerged from the analysis: Identity and nostalgia, the subculture’s ethos, consumption habits and hierarchical social structure. Nostalgia was shown to have a collective dimension, connecting the group around the brand, and positively affecting the ties between members and members and the brand. Practical implications On-line brand communities can be promoted to strengthen connections between consumers and a brand, and between consumers with each other. For that, it is important to understand the characteristics and specificities of these groups. Originality/value Few studies have dealt with the characteristics of brand communities in social media, as well as the role of nostalgia in these groups. This research fills these gaps, exploring aspects related to consumption as a way of transmitting symbolic meanings and expressing nostalgic feelings in on-line brand communities.
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Morozov, A. Y. "NOSTALGIA AS THE CULTURAL PHENOMENON." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 2 (3) (2018): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2018.2(3).03.
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The article is devoted to the observation of the cultural phenomenon of nostalgia, its social, psychological, ethical and general philosophical aspects. It is shown that nostalgia is based on value-laden memory that helps us differ pleasant and unpleasant, useful and useless, meaningful and meaningless. This value-laden memory has its ethical dimension that deals with moral tradition, our concepts of good and evil, justice and injustice, sense of life and sense of death. We may say that ethical memory is a part of a larger “cultural memory” that enables every kind of social and individual identity. Due to nostalgia the generation`s continuity is established. In the act of nostalgia a person recalls the past but also rebels against actual state of presence. It is affirmed that our time-arrangement of “bad presence” and “good past” is possible because of ontological time regress. Nostalgizing for the past, a man is trying not only to mythologize the latter, but to resurrect it symbolically. Nostalgia’s faith in revival contains a hope for annihilation of time and triumph of eternity. We may call it an archetypical need, a manifestation of ancient mythological and religious motive of death and resurrection. Longing for past accompanies mankind dur- ing all its history and especially rises in the postmodern culture – in forms of metaphysical, political and aesthetical nostalgias. Metaphysical nostalgia is the lust for Logos, (God, meaning, truth, the good and the beauty) in the post-nihilistic absurd world, where god is claimed to be dead, and all supreme values are seemed to be devalued. It is also longing for the sacred reality, the being, that postmodern culture is lacked. Political nostalgia is the lust for the real power, subconscious desire for its increasing, expanding, absolutization. Aesthetical nostalgia is the sadness for the art as symbolic hierarchical structure with definite cultural and historical code as today we observe fakes and simulations, chaos and “metastases of cultural codes” (J. Baudrillard).
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Zlotnikova, Tanjana S., and Vladislava M. Kuimova. "Nostalgia for the soviet in the modern media scene." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 2, no. 119 (2021): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2021-2-119-133-143.
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The article sets out the current and paradoxical problem of nostalgia, the object of which is the Soviet past, Soviet being, the idea of soviet life as a source of stability and moral and psychological certainty. Nostalgia is considered as a cultural philosophical metaphor and as an academically conceived subject of study in the interdisciplinary paradigm. The definition correlates with psychological discomfort and with the need to return the past, perceived as a harmonically arranged life. The concept of nostalgia and the phenomenon it denotes correlate with several problematic discourses, being at the intersection of socio-cultural, philosophical and worldview, historical, symbolic and psychological aspects. Nostalgia turns out to be a way of mythologizing the Soviet past, actualizing the personal experience of representatives of different generations as experiencing negative and requiring overcoming psychological conflicts. The research methodology is related to the deep traditions of socio-philosophical and philosophical-anthropological issues, consists in ideas about the cyclical nature of social processes and phenomena of cultural life. Based on the judgments of N. Berdyaev, S. Bulgakov, other philosophers and publicists, the significance of the aspect of nostalgia associated with longing for lost Russia and for lost spaces, emotions, links is affirmed. For the noble environment, the subject of nostalgia is pre-revolutionary Russia, the image of which is being idealized, and the social problems of the monarchist state go into oblivion. Soviet existence is permeated by longing for the past. Living generations see psychoemotional reactions in the Soviet past, which are broadcast as present there and absent in the current society – the value of friendship, the duration of love, interest in life, social inclusion, willingness to make decisions and lack of infantility, early adulthood; collectivism, stability, camaraderie are being updated as an alternative to the loss of socially significant ideals. The dynamics of nostalgic manifestations in several generations of Soviet and post-Soviet people is noted. We analyze media, in particular, presented in television and cinematic products, manifestations of nostalgia for strength and harmony, fidelity to the chosen path and masculine certainty (sports issues, appeal to the discourse of power).
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Petrov, Ana. "The implications of nostalgia in German modern sociology." Sociologija 62, no. 2 (2020): 217–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc2002217p.
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In this article, I deal with nostalgia as an implicit category in the 19th-century German sociological discourses. I draw on the approaches that argue that sociology can be seen as a nostalgic social science since the sociologists? discourses were focused on the issues of causes, characteristics, and consequences of the modern age for individuals and society. Trying to explicate modern society, usually by comparing it to the premodern forms of social order, modern sociologists shaped dichotomous categories that were used for the definition of basic sociological concepts, one of the typical ones being the dichotomy between modern society and traditional communities. I here argue that modern sociologists constructed their theories in relation to the idea of a lack or loss, i.e. in relation to the question of what the modern society left behind during its growth: community, spirit or freedom. An alternative, a solution, or simply a utopian object for making comparison are found exactly in the object that is lost - in the nostalgic reflection on those aspects of humanity that were no longer possible in the modern age. Hence, I argue that modern sociology can be defined as a certain discourse on social loss. This will be elaborated on the examples of theories of Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel.
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Theodorou, Michalis. "Aspects of Populism and Nostalgia in the akp’s Turkey." Turkish Historical Review 13, no. 1-2 (October 7, 2022): 183–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18775462-bja10041.
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Abstract As a consequence of a long series of domestic and international political, economic and social developments that resulted in the rise of political Islam in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party (akp) came to power in 2002. Since then, it has been the dominant party in the country, developing a political narrative and a public discourse that have many attributes of modern populism. In line with its strategy to consolidate its power, the akp espouses a populist public discourse that is distinctive and multifaceted. One of its most important manifestations is the mobilization of the population through neo-Ottoman nostalgia, in a context of politicization of emotion to connect with the broader masses.
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AHOLA-LAUNONEN, JOHANNA. "Humanity and Social Responsibility, Solidarity, and Social Rights." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 25, no. 2 (March 9, 2016): 176–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180115000481.
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Abstract:This article discusses the suggestion of having the notion of solidarity as the foundational value for welfare scheme reforms. Solidarity is an emerging concept in bioethical deliberations emphasizing the need for value-oriented discussion in revising healthcare structures, and the notion has been contrasted with liberal justice and rights. I suggest that this contrast is unnecessary, flawed, and potentially counterproductive. As necessary as the sense of solidarity is in a society, it is an insufficient concept to secure the goals related to social responsibility. The discussion on solidarity is also based on a questionable sense of nostalgia. Furthermore, solidarity and liberal justice share essential objectives concerning welfare schemes; therefore, the question arises whether the proper comparison should in the first place be within justice and solidarity.
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Sandberg, Eric. "Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice(s) and the Affective Politics of Nostalgia." Adaptation 13, no. 3 (November 3, 2019): 295–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz028.
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Abstract This essay examines Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 Inherent Vice and Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2014 adaptation of the novel. These works are closely connected, and can be effectively viewed as two parts of a single transmedia text which includes a novel, a film, and two trailers. All of the constituent parts of this meta-Inherent Vice are informed by their engagement with nostalgia. Yet it is precisely here that the texts diverge from each other most markedly, activating different types of nostalgia for different purposes. While much contemporary scholarship relies on Svetlana Boym’s reflective/restorative binary to conceptualize the phenomenon of nostalgia, this reading argues that a public/personal divide offers another perhaps more appropriate lens to view the differences between the two versions of Inherent Vice. Pynchon’s novel emphasizes the political potential and social aspects of nostalgia, while Anderson’s film focuses on its personal, affective impact.
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Šutinienė, Irena. "Sovietmečio atmintis šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje: ambivalentiškumas ar nostalgija?" Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 152–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/socmintvei.2013.1.1845.
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Santrauka. Straipsnyje, remiantis kiekybinio sociologinio tyrimo duomenimis, analizuojamos sovietinio laikotarpio interpretacijos Lietuvos gyventojų kolektyvinėje atmintyje. Analizuojant gyventojų atmintyje vyraujančių požiūrių į sovietmetį spektrą, siekiama parodyti šių požiūrių ambivalentiškumą: atskirdami ir neigiamai vertindami politinius buvusios sovietinės sistemos aspektus, žmonės tuo pat metu teigiamai prisimena ir vertina kai kuriuos sovietmečio kasdienybės reiškinius, traktuodami juos kaip „nepolitinius“. Požiūrių į sovietmetį ryšiai su dabarties kontekstais – demokratizacijos rezultatų vertinimais ir socialiniais-demografiniais kontekstais – atskleidžia, kad požiūrius į sovietmetį dideliu laipsniu lemia žmonių amžius, taip pat teigiami (tarp jų ir nostalgiški) požiūriai į sovietmetį iš dalies susiję su socialiniais-ekonominiais ir subjektyviais marginalizacijos kontekstais. Ryšių su socialiniais dabarties kontekstais ir požiūriais į dabartį silpnumas rodo, kad sovietmečio atmintis yra tik dalinai nostalgiška ir galimai yra susijusi su daugeliu konkrečių, tarp jų individualių kontekstų.Pagrindinės sąvokos: sovietmetis, kolektyvinė atmintis, nostalgija.Key words: Soviet era, collective memory, nostalgia.ABSTRACT THE MEMORIES OF SOVIET ERA IN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIA: AMBIVALENCE OR NOSTALGIA?The collective memories of Soviet era of Lithuanian adult population are analysed in the article. The analysis is based on the data of representative sociological survey, conducted by company „Baltijos tyrimai“ in 2012. The analysis reveals the ambivalence of the memories of Soviet era prevailing in popular memory: people express positive attitudes towards many aspects the Soviet era everyday life and simultaneously evaluate negatively political aspects of the Soviet regime. The Soviet era everyday is presented in people‘s memories as „apolitical“ and separated from political domain. The connections between attitudes towards Soviet past and contemporary contexts (attitudes towards the outcomes of democratization and indicators of social and economical position) reveal, that the memories of Soviet era are structured by generations in a great degree; there are also slight relations between positive (and nostalgic) memories of Soviet past and the social contexts of marginalization as well as feelings of marginalization. The slight relations of the memories of Soviet era to the contemporary social contexts and attitudes towards outcomes of democratization indicate, that positive memories of Soviet past are only partly nostalgic and are influenced by many other, among them individual, factors.Pastaba. Straipsnis parengtas vykdant Lietuvos mokslo tarybos finansuojamą projektą „Demokratizacijos procesų Lietuvoje reprezentacijos individualioje sąmonėje“, sutartis Nr. SIN-03/2012
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Zhidchenko, Aleksandr V. "HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES OF A POST-WAR SOVIET CITY IN THE MEMORY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF SALAVAT AS AN EXAMPLE OF “SOVNOSTALGIA”." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Philosophy. Social Studies. Art Studies, no. 1 (2022): 287–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6401-2022-1-287-296.
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The proposed work touches upon important aspects of women’s social historical memory, which, using the example of everyday aspects (in particular, those related to childbearing practices) of life in a Soviet city, becomes part of nostalgia for the Soviet past. The study was carried out on the materials of oral history, the history of everyday life, the ethno-gender approach and the theory of historical memory. It can be noted that the construction of maternity hospitals in cities, the creation of a system of medical care at enterprises and at women’s consultations in the USSR at that time made it possible to abandon many outdated traditions inherent in young families, but in general, the system of traditional ethno-gender views continued to be present. in the life of citizens during that period, including in the behavior associated with the birth of a child. However, the symbolism associated with the attributes of the birth of children in the 1950s–60s. (maternity hospital, solemn meeting of the spouse with the child, etc.) can already be considered as part of the nostalgia for the Soviet past. The factors shaping such nostalgia were: the transition from rustic birth traditions to urban practices; to the accelerated decision to have a child in young families in order to get the unscheduled housing (a room in a communal (shared) apartment or a separate apartment).
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Rezaei, Afsane. "The Ritual Fusion." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 18, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 216–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767856.
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Abstract This article explores domestic religious practices of Iranian Muslim women in Los Angeles. In the diasporic context, Iranian women’s voluntary engagement in vernacular Islamic practices is often associated with an unreflexive pursuit of religion and lack of agency or with complicity with the Islamic Republic’s conservative brand of Shiism. To examine the complexities of such practices in the United States, this research relies on the ethnography of a monthly domestic gathering in LA that offers a hybrid blend of multiple devotional and social genres. The article demonstrates that the event’s performative and affective characteristics cater to a range of individual framings of the shared ritual and allow for complex and multilayered modes of engaging with the practice of faith. Further, it argues that vernacular Islamic practices in the diaspora are not always tied to individuals’ expression of religious conviction and pursuit of piety. By depicting the material and sensory aspects of the space, the article suggests that such rituals can serve as sites for engaging in a mode of diasporic nostalgia that does not commonly have a place in Iranian communities’ nostalgic narratives of the homeland.
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Sporton, Gregory. "Power as Nostalgia: the Bolshoi Ballet in the New Russia." New Theatre Quarterly 22, no. 4 (October 20, 2006): 379–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x0600056x.
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The economic and political transition of the old Soviet Union into Putin's Russia has been given plenty of attention over the past few years, with emphasis on free markets and democratic choice much in evidence. In this essay Gregory Sporton discusses the less often considered difficulties of the social transition towards a New Russia. The role of ballet in the culture of the Soviet Union occasionally leads to some embarrassment for those who think the arts represent freedom; and here the symbolic power of the nation's most political theatre, the Bolshoi, is examined at the point of its renovation. How the company has adapted to the new political realities, to the challenge of attracting audiences, and to its own complicity with the old regime is observed against the backdrop of May Day celebrations in 2004. Gregory Sporton is Director of the Visualisation Research Unit in the Department of Art at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Since 2004 he has been a frequent visitor to Russia, studying a range of aspects of Russian culture under the Soviets from ballet to architecture, education and the visual arts. His study trip in 2004 was funded by the Elisabeth Barker Fund from the British Academy.
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Savini, Paola. "Remembering Operación Triunfo." TV Formats and Format Research 5, no. 9 (August 1, 2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2016.jethc100.
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The music format Operación Triunfo (2001–2011), which aired on RTVE for the first time in 2001, started as a television (TV) and musical success in Spain and today is one of the most famous shows around the world as well as an incredible socio-economic phenomenon in Spanish TV. This paper describes the format concept and results. Both commercial and social aspects are introduced to understand why, after 15 years, it is remembered with nostalgia and remains a shining example of a good communication project and a perfect balance between the global and the local, despite the lack of great success in the following years in Spain and abroad.
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Renko, Sanda, and Kristina Bucar. "Sensing nostalgia through traditional food: an insight from Croatia." British Food Journal 116, no. 11 (October 28, 2014): 1672–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-02-2014-0089.
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Purpose – Due to the growing trend of consuming healthy food, which reproduces the ideal of the food the authors tried in their childhood, an increasing number of researchers have brought together the values of tradition, nostalgia and food. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between food and nostalgia in order to find out in which way they affect each other. Design/methodology/approach – In order to explore the perspectives of traditional food in re-collecting and re-experiencing positive past experiences, both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used in two stages. First, focus group interviews were conducted with ten restaurant chefs in three different regions of Croatia. Then, a survey was carried out with 362 Croatian consumers. Findings – Focus group results show that although traditional food creates new opportunities for differentiation, finding the right ingredients and time for cooking traditional food is still a problem. There is a low interest in traditional food in restaurants, as domestic patrons mostly worry about the high prices, while foreign ones do not know anything about such foods due to the inadequate promotion of Croatian gastronomic offer. Survey results indicate that consumers are familiar with traditional Croatian food, eat it regularly at home and consider it as food with high-quality aspects that reminds them of their childhood and positive past experiences. Practical implications – The results presented in this paper give some directions for subjects involved in the manufacturing industry, tourism, the restaurant industry, etc. to devise ways of reminding their customers of childhood memories, family ties, etc. Originality/value – A relatively small number of food-centred studies are directly concerned with nostalgia. Many more studies investigate food in social changes, related to ethnic elements, etc. Considering an extensive literature review, and the analysis of data in the qualitative and quantitative study, this paper addresses two multidimensional and complex concepts which are powerful predictors of customer satisfaction.
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Ujayli, Shahla. "Knowledge and the Discourse Power of the Exile’s Writing." Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences 49, no. 4 (July 30, 2022): 90–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i4.2035.
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This research defines the mechanisms by which the discourse of exile becomes a discourse of power, using the two aspects of knowledge: organic and procedure. The exile used to represent the margin, the outsider, and the pervert which encounters the hegemony of the center that is located at homeland. By studying two of the diaspora novels, we will find that the writing of exile may move away from expressing of nostalgia, memory, and the dream of return, it is based on truth from the perspective of its writers and critics as well, using a range of techniques such as the phenomenology of the home, the concepts of domination, the deconstruction of absence, and recognition. It mainly benefits from the power of knowledge that is available in exile, which dismantles the authority of the center.
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Ciulla, Joanne B. "Leadership and the power of resentment/ressentiment." Leadership 16, no. 1 (February 2020): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742715019885772.
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This paper examines the emotion of resentment and the French version of it, ressentiment. It shows why resentment is an effective way for leaders to cultivate followers who are loyal to them even when they do not serve the followers’ interests. I begin by looking at the differences between the two concepts of resentment and ressentiment in the literature and how they relate to justice, fairness, self-esteem, social status, nostalgia, and other emotions. Next, I go on to explore one of the most harmful aspects of resentment, the social and moral bi-product of it that Nietzsche and Scheler call the “inversion of values.” This is when leaders convince followers that what is considered good by those they resent as bad, and vice versa. I then construct a picture of how leaders like Donald Trump cultivate resentment and invert values. While I do not offer a panacea for resentment, I believe that understanding it better may point us towards a cure.
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Miller, Arthur H., William M. Reisinger, and Vicki L. Hesli. "Understanding Political Change in Post-Soviet Societies: A Further Commentary on Finifter and Mickiewicz." American Political Science Review 90, no. 1 (March 1996): 153–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2082804.
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Modernization theory suggests that in the post–World War II period increased education promoted public support for democratic principles and an individual opportunities society in the former Soviet Union. Finifter and Mickiewicz (1992), however, based on a 1989 survey in the Soviet Union, found that the less well educated were more supportive of individual locus of control than were the better educated. Examining survey data collected in the former USSR during 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1995, we find consistent reconfirmation of the modernization theory, despite a major decline in support for an opportunities society that occurs between 1992 and 1995. This recent increase in preference for socialism is explained by rising nationalism, growing nostalgia for communists, and disillusionment with certain aspects of the market economy, particularly the perceived growth of social inequality.
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Malik, Aqdas, Kari Hiekkanen, Zaheer Hussain, Juho Hamari, and Aditya Johri. "How players across gender and age experience Pokémon Go?" Universal Access in the Information Society 19, no. 4 (October 16, 2019): 799–812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-019-00694-7.
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to provide insights into player experiences and motivations in Pokémon Go, a relatively new phenomenon of location-based augmented reality games. With the increasing usage and adoption of various forms of digital games worldwide, investigating the motivations for playing games has become crucial not only for researchers but for game developers, designers, and policy makers. Using an online survey (N = 1190), the study explores the motivational, usage, and privacy concerns variations among age and gender groups of Pokémon Go players. Most of the players, who are likely to be casual gamers, are persuaded toward the game due to nostalgic association and word of mouth. Females play Pokémon Go to fulfill physical exploration and enjoyment gratifications. On the other hand, males seek to accomplish social interactivity, achievement, coolness, and nostalgia gratifications. Compared to females, males are more concerned about the privacy aspects associated with the game. With regard to age, younger players display strong connotation with most of the studied gratifications and the intensity drops significantly with an increase in age. With the increasing use of online and mobile games worldwide among all cohorts of society, the study sets the way for a deeper analysis of motivation factors with respect to age and gender. Understanding motivations for play can provide researchers with the analytic tools to gain insight into the preferences for and effects of game play for different kinds of users.
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Larsen, Jeppe Fuglsang. "The Identitarian movement and fashwave music: The nostalgia and anger of the new far right in Denmark." Popular Music 41, no. 2 (May 2022): 152–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143022000022.
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AbstractThrough perspectives from the sociology of emotions and multimodality as an analytical tool, this article analyses the cultural aspects of the Identitarian movement through the case of the Danish Generation Identitær (GI) and its online videos. The analysis shows that the group shares an understanding of societal problems and emotions of nostalgia and anger connected to this worldview and demonstrates that the group's use of fashwave music style fits its worldview and emotions. Furthermore, the article argues that the coded language associated with fashwave music is part of what defines the community of GI and that the music binds its members to a collective consciousness. Therefore, this article presents an analysis of the cultural style of fashwave, an important contribution to the study of the broader cultural and social ecology of newer far-right groups and milieus, such as the Identitarian movement.
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Lee, Megan F., Douglas Angus, Hayley Walsh, and Sally Sargeant. "“Maybe it’s Not Just the Food?” A Food and Mood Focus Group Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 3 (January 21, 2023): 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032011.
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Epidemiological and intervention studies in nutritional psychiatry suggest that the risk of mood disorders is associated with what we eat. However, few studies use a person-centred approach to explore the food and mood relationship. In this qualitative study of 50 Australian participants, we explored individuals’ experiences with food and mood as revealed during focus group discussions. Using a thematic template analysis, we identified three themes in the food and mood relationship: (i) social context: familial and cultural influences of food and mood, (ii) social economics: time, finance, and food security, and (iii) food nostalgia: unlocking memories that impact mood. Participants suggested that nutrients, food components or food patterns may not be the only way that food impacts mood. Rather, they described the social context of who, with, and where food is eaten, and that time, finances, and access to healthy fresh foods and bittersweet memories of foods shared with loved ones all impacted their mood. Findings suggest that quantitative studies examining the links between diet and mood should look beyond nutritional factors and give increased attention to the cultural, social, economic, and identity aspects of diet.
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Munné, Myriam I. "Drinking in Tango Lyrics: An Approach to Myths and Meanings of Drinking in Argentinian Culture." Contemporary Drug Problems 28, no. 3 (September 2001): 415–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145090102800305.
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A study of cultural aspects of drinking analyzes the lyrics and titles of 82 Argentinian sung tangos, written between 1914 and 1977, in terms of references to drinking and drunkenness. Champagne, as the drink of the brothel or the cabaret, is the most commonly mentioned beverage, and is associated with status and parties. But the primary motivations given for drinking, usually by a male narrator, are negative: to forget—particularly to forget a lost love—and to drown sorrows. Paradoxically, the alcohol is often seen as facilitating remembering and as making one sad. The song's narrator often presents himself as a drunkard, seen through others' eyes; but he gets drunk “not just for the pleasure,” but to express his feelings of nostalgia, sadness and loss in love.
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Triantafillidou, Amalia, and George Siomkos. "Consumption experience outcomes: satisfaction, nostalgia intensity, word-of-mouth communication and behavioural intentions." Journal of Consumer Marketing 31, no. 6/7 (November 4, 2014): 526–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-05-2014-0982.
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Purpose – The aim of the present study is to investigate the impact of the different aspects of consumption experience on various post-consumption variables (i.e. satisfaction, nostalgia intensity, word-of-mouth (WOM) communication and behavioural intentions). Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative study using a self-administered questionnaire was conducted. The sample comprised of 645 respondents and the snowball sampling technique was used. Consumption experience was measured using a seven-dimensional scale (dimensions: hedonic, flow, escapism, socialisation, personal challenge, learning and communitas). Findings – Not all experience dimensions affect consumers equally in the post-consumption stage. Hedonism was an important experiential dimension affecting positively most of the post-consumption variables. Other boosters of consumers’ nostalgia, WOM communication and behavioural intentions were the feelings of escapism, knowledge and communitas. On the contrary, flow and personal challenge were negative predictors of consumers’ evaluations. Practical implications – Marketers should co-create the experience with consumers by carefully managing their experiential offering. Companies should focus on designing pleasurable, social, educational and fantasy experiences while minimizing the feelings of immersion and risk that arise from intense activities. Originality/value – A holistic conceptual model on the consequences of the different consumption experience dimensions is tested. Until now, most of the relevant studies on experiences have treated experience as a higher order construct without taking into consideration the different effects of the various experience dimensions. Hence, the present study contributes to research by identifying the most pertinent experience dimensions on post-consumption evaluations, behaviour and intentions of consumers.
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Bird, Colin. "Review Essay: Capitalism, Inequality, and Meritocracy." Review of Politics 82, no. 2 (2020): 317–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670520000194.
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Trying to judge capitalism and the social forms it has brought into being is a bit like asking adolescents to assess puberty as they are going through it. We instinctively recognize that we are living through a particular phase in our development; we notice an expansion of our powers as well as recurrent problems attending their exercise; we find our concerns, attention, and aspirations reoriented in various ways; and our attitudes to our situation swing wildly between optimism, nostalgia, rebellion, exhilaration, and dejection. Similarly, we are uncertain about which aspects of market-saturated social arrangements will turn out to be temporary aberrations rather than permanent fixtures, and wonder constantly whether we must simply learn to cope with their effects, or should instead actively strive to master them. Above all, like the anxieties of adolescence, our assessments are haunted by vanity: Should we be proud or ashamed of what we are becoming and making of ourselves? Since, in one way or another, they address the adequacy of capitalist social forms, the three books under discussion all give voice, and in some cases respond, to these anxieties. They nonetheless belong to very different genres.
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Urwin, Jessica, and Catherine Flick. "AR games as a potential source of improved mental well being: Implications for self-help and individual support." Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 11, no. 3 (October 1, 2019): 309–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.11.3.309_1.
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This article argues that augmented reality (AR) games such as Pokémon Go are beneficial in enhancing the mood and mental well being of players. Whilst developed purely for entertainment purposes, AR games can offer a number of social and emotional benefits. Within this article Pokémon Go is used as an example. Whilst benefits from playing such as increased physical activity have been found to be short lived, the combination of active participation, positive reinforcement and nostalgia that are central to Pokémon Go’s gameplay appear to have a longer impact upon mental well being. Using survey data, this research considers three key aspects of mood in relation to the experience of gameplay: activity, relationships and environment. This highlights the impact playing Pokémon Go has on mood, and shows broader implications for the use of AR games in self-help strategies and developing mental well being on an individual level.
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Lessersohn, Nora. "Write to return: The memoir of Hovhannes Cherishian and the restoration of the Armenian hearth." Memory Studies 12, no. 5 (October 2019): 565–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698019870706.
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In this essay, I will analyze the memoir of Hovhannes Cherishian (1886–1967), an Ottoman Armenian shoemaker and genocide survivor from what is now southern Turkey, as an attempt to “restore the ruined ancestral [Armenian] hearth” and render “part of the lost legacy of [his] forebears” back unto “the possession of the Armenian community.” By analyzing examples of transcultural memories from Cherishian’s text, I will highlight the ways in which Cherishian uses his memoir to restore (and thus return to) a complex, multicultural, pre-genocide Ottoman Armenian existence. I will first locate Cherishian’s memoir in nostalgia and memory studies as a way to draw out his role as an author. I will then explore aspects of Cherishian’s text that reveal that which he lost to the genocide—and thus that which he restores through his memoir. In conclusion, I will discuss briefly the importance of memory sources for writing Ottoman and Armenian history.
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Watts, Rob. "John Braithwaite and Crime, Shame and Reintegration: Some Reflections on Theory and Criminology." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 29, no. 2 (August 1996): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589602900203.
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John Braithwaite's ‘republican theory of criminology’ (1989) claims to offer a new general theory of crime, an account of ‘the good society’ and a set of policy prescriptions for effective crime control. Along the way he has spelt out a moral theory grounded in communitarianism, and refined his own version of a ‘progressive’ politics. This paper examines two central aspects of Braithwaite's work. Given Braithwaite's claim to say why ‘some kinds of individuals and some kinds of societies exhibit more crime’, the paper suggests his answers to this question and the adequacy of his notion of good social science are severely wanting. Braithwaite's claim to be offering a theory of the moral shares with the Durkheimian tradition he draws on, a refusal of the moral. The contemporary praise accorded Braithwaite's work is a sign both of intellectual desperation and of a pervasive nostalgia for a return to ‘community’ exemplified in the work of communitarians like Macintyre (1981) and Bellah (1985).
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Voelcker, Becca. "Field work: Ogawa Productions as farmer‐filmmakers." Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) 10, no. 1 (September 1, 2021): 50–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00063_1.
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This article considers the value of the leftist filmmaking collective Ogawa Productions’ interdisciplinary practice, which combined filmmaking and farming as an activist project of advocacy for social and environmental justice in 1980s Japan. It argues that Ogawa Pro, as the collective was known, integrated agriculture and film culture to construct a radically inclusive ecosystemic understanding of humans, plants, animals and the climate. Viewed today, their approach exemplifies an early model of ecological thinking that speaks to the recent multispecies turn in the arts, humanities and social sciences. But Ogawa Pro’s turn to the land is also riddled with ambivalence: the films harbour agrarian romanticism bordering on a politics of nostalgia and ethnic environmentalism. Torn between what we might today call progressive and reactionary traditionalist politics, Ogawa Pro’s enmeshed filming and farming practices constitute an important example of what I call Land Cinema ‐ that is, film entangled in territorial, ecological and aesthetic aspects of land. Though the collective’s earlier and more militant films have received critical acclaim in recent years, its later land-based work merits further attention for the way it exposes political tensions over how to cultivate, represent and share space responsibly.
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Nicolau, Felix. "Memories from the future: constative and performed identities in ideologized spaces." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 4, no. 1 (May 13, 2021): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v4i1.22420.
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Although communism was a Western creation its last consequences were implemented in southeastern Europe. In addition to the imposed aspects, there were local enthusiasms and excesses of zeal (euphemistically speaking), which attest to the existence of an identity matrix and a common mentality. Countries with an authoritarian tradition have absorbed this ideology of simultaneous denationalization and supra-nationalization to the deepest. And after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Southeast European space preserved mass nostalgia: Stalin, Tito and Ceausescu are still guardianship figures for many of various social categories. Imperialist stability and/or glory are two of the most important reasons for forgetting communist terror. The research tries to identify and analyze the sources of historical instability that has an impact on the post-communist present - the communist heritage still looming large-, as well as to demystify certain stigmas unconditionally applied to Southeast European civilizations: corruption, laziness, negative Balkanization, frivolity and lack of consistency. This is a selective overview which aims to decant common mentalities of synchrony in relation to diachrony.
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Lake, Robert J. "The Wimbledon Championships, the All England Lawn Tennis Club, and “Invented Traditions”." International Journal of Sport Communication 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 52–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2017-0094.
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The Wimbledon Championships, staged annually at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), is a British sporting event of great social significance. Its popularity stretches beyond the high standards of tennis on display to what it seems to represent culturally for many people. Wimbledon’s public image has been carefully constructed over the years, with consideration given to how the players look, behave, and play; the appearance of the courts and AELTC grounds; the refreshments; its corporate partners; and its relationship to television and media generally. This study suggests that many of these aspects, including Wimbledon’s fashions and the all-whites clothing rule, the grass courts, the strawberries and cream and Pimm’s, the royal box, “Henman Hill,“ and the eulogizing of Fred Perry, conform to Eric Hobsbawm’s concept of “invented traditions.” Through analysis of Wimbledon’s subtle branding and constructed public image, as gleaned from testimonies from AELTC executive-committee members and high-profile Wimbledon officials, this article discusses how these invented traditions serve various functions for the AELTC, namely, to establish social cohesion among an “imagined community” of Wimbledon fans, to legitimize Wimbledon’s high status globally, and to inculcate beliefs, value systems, and behavioral conventions in tandem with Wimbledon’s nostalgia for its amateur “golden age.”
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Almenara-Niebla, Silvia. "“You have raised me between two worlds”: Mothers, daughters, and emotions in the Sahrawi digital diaspora in Spain." Feminismo/s, no. 41 (January 2, 2023): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/fem.2023.41.09.
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The theoretical development of the concept of diaspora accounts for almost any transnational population that maintains strong emotional ties based on nostalgia and memory with their territories of origin, but also affects and ties with their territories of destination. These processes are generated through intrinsically diverse experiences that are constructed in-between both social realities. The emergence of digital technologies has provided these populations with a new scenario wherein the past and present homes are connected by immediate communication, which currently reduces distances, and uprootedness. However, few investigations have analyzed the frequent communication paradoxes that occur within these communities based on not only the need to be connected but also the failure to meet family expectations. Most studies have focused on the experience of mothers and the role they play in maintaining traditions linked to their places of origin, leaving behind the experience of daughters and their mutual relationship. This article addresses this gap while exploring the challenges that these contradictions present for the Sahrawi digital diaspora in Spain. Specifically, it investigates relationships between mothers and daughters and their impact on the social media practices of the latter. Through a social media ethnography that was developed between 2016 and 2018 together with Sahrawi refugees in Spain, this research examines how aspects such as the maintenance of family honor and the need to build one’s own life plan constantly clash in relationships between mothers and daughters with respect to cultural preservation, the emergence of new forms of belonging, emotional relations, and community expectations.
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Juică, Brânduşa, Virginia Popovic, and Marinel Negru. "Banatul, temă lirică în literatura română din Voivodina." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 4, no. 1 (May 13, 2021): 50–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v4i1.22414.
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In Romanian literature in Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, poetry is the favourite genre of writers, especially when it comes to the second half of the twentieth century. Among the lyrical themes often explored by the authors who wrote their texts in Romanian, the theme of the homeland of yesterday and today, occupied a privileged place. Natural beauty, childhood images, loved ones, customs and traditions, educational aspects, social coexistence, the multicultural specificity have also quite often become literary topics. This article reveals some lyrical experiences in which the homeland - Banat, is in the focus of some poets, belonging to different literary generations. Their writings are modelled according to the feelings of nostalgia, alienation, wanting to return to the past through recollection or dreams. On the other hand, in addition to daydreams of their home and self-searches, we are drawn to the approaches to these topics that place Romanian literature in its own right, at the confluence of the two European literatures, Romanian and Serbian. The lyrical creations that present such characteristics are included both in author's collections of works as well as on the pages of the magazine „Lumina", the symbolic publication of Romanian culture in the former Yugoslavia and present-day Serbia.
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Bäcker, Roman, and Joanna Rak. "Epigonic Totalitarianism in Russia." Politeja 16, no. 5(62) (December 31, 2019): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/politeja.16.2019.62.01.
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This article aims to identify the dynamics of the Russian political regime and explain its sources. The article addresses the research problems of what the dynamics of the Russian political regime entailed from the beginning of the Russo- Ukrainian war to the end of Putin’s third presidential term as well as the sources of the dynamics. It verifies the hypothesis that the authoritarian regime started adopting totalitarian elements of the party-state apparatus, totalitarian political gnosis, and mass and controlled social mobilization in time. There were very strong neo-imperial tendencies and post-imperial nostalgia which contributed to the epigonic nature of the system changes. However, qualitative change of the system has not occurred. The research makes use of source analysis and the technique of conceptual content analysis to gather the data necessary to evaluate the changes in the Russian political regime in the mentioned aspects. The researchers triangulated mass media information and monographs and adopted the principle of theoretical sampling to verify the information necessary to recognize the values of the three indicators. Furthermore, the research applies three dual typologies of the essential features of political regimes to differentiate between the state of the system during individual ellipses of bifurcation.
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RICHARDS, GARY. "Queering Katrina: Gay Discourses of the Disaster in New Orleans." Journal of American Studies 44, no. 3 (August 2010): 519–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875810001210.
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Within certain conservative narratives imposed upon the events of 2005, New Orleans has been demonized as a site promoting gay licentiousness and therefore meriting divine retribution. In queer narratives, New Orleans has been valorized as promoting that same licentiousness but lamented for having those hedonistic excesses tempered by the widespread destruction of the city. Especially in the latter scenario, there is a significant degree of nostalgia, an element that also marks other queer understandings of the city that focus not so much on the hedonism as on the day-to-day warp and woof of pre-hurricane gay communities. The main focus of this essay is on how, as gay communities have been reconfigured in the aftermath of the hurricane by temporary and permanent evacuations, job relocations, and other alterations, gay responses have continued to evince a range of emotions, including anger, bitterness, resignation, and optimism. This essay focusses on gay literary production responding directly to the hurricane to examine essays and poems published as Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans (2006) and Blanche Survives Katrina in FEMA Trailer Named Desire, Mark Sam Rosenthal's off-Broadway show structured around a parody of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire that, as a result of this structure, faced legal action instigated by the University of the South, owner of the intellectual rights to Williams's literary production. The collection and the play are sustained queer responses to Katrina's flooding of the city that showcase both the energizing and problematic aspects of these responses.
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An, Dai Whan, and Jae-Young Lee. "Implications of Renovated Buildings in Yeonnam-Dong, Seoul, an Area under Commercial Gentrification." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (January 19, 2023): 1960. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15031960.
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We aimed to identify the characteristics of the changes in the buildings and alleyways in Yeonnam-dong, Seoul, where low-rise, residential buildings are being renovated or repurposed into commercial buildings, as well as to investigate their renovations, repurposes, and sociocultural implications. Thus, we surveyed and classified 149 renovated buildings, investigated the perceptions and ambiance of the area and buildings using a trade area analysis and interviews with visitors and store owners, and uncovered the importance of renovation. Since the early gentrification, a trend of performing renovations that retained the original form of the building from the initial renovation stage was seen; this created an ambiance of nostalgia, naturalness, and authenticity, along with the urban conditions of low-rise, residential buildings in Yeonnam-dong, a representative undeveloped area. These renovated buildings reflect the social status, taste, and practice of gentrifiers, and they reveal a hybridization of the past and present, Korean circumstances and exotic cultures, and residential and commercial buildings. As commercialization progressed, renovated buildings vastly differing from the original and displaying active commercial characteristics were seen. Our findings imply that the area’s early ambiance, which had an air of “distinctiveness”, has lost its personality and begun to generalize. Thus, numerous gentrifiers have been replaced and several aspects of renovation have changed that the visitors are aware of.
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Daneels, Rowan, Nicholas D. Bowman, Daniel Possler, and Elisa D. Mekler. "The ‘Eudaimonic Experience’: A Scoping Review of the Concept in Digital Games Research." Media and Communication 9, no. 2 (May 6, 2021): 178–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3824.
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Digital games have evolved into a medium that moves beyond basic toys for distraction and pleasure towards platforms capable of and effective at instigating more serious, emotional, and intrapersonal experiences. Along with this evolution, games research has also started to consider more deeply affective and cognitive reactions that resemble the broad notion of eudaimonia, with work already being done in communication studies and media psychology as well as in human–computer interaction. These studies offer a large variety of concepts to describe such eudaimonic reactions—including eudaimonia, meaningfulness, appreciation, and self-transcendence—which are frequently used as synonyms as they represent aspects not captured by the traditional hedonic focus on enjoyment. However, these concepts are potentially confusing to work with as they might represent phenomenological distinct experiences. In this scoping review, we survey 82 publications to identify different concepts used in digital gaming research to represent eudaimonia and map out how these concepts relate to each other. The results of this scoping review revealed four broad conceptual patterns: (1) appreciation as an overarching (yet imprecise) eudaimonic outcome of playing digital games; (2) covariation among meaningful, emotionally moving/challenging, and self-reflective experiences; (3) the unique potential of digital games to afford eudaimonic social connectedness; and (4) other eudaimonia-related concepts (e.g., nostalgia, well-being, elevation). This review provides a conceptual map of the current research landscape on eudaimonic game entertainment experiences and outlines recommendations for future scholarship, including how a focus on digital games contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of eudaimonic media experiences broadly.
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HOLOBORODKO, Yurii. "LITERARY FEATURES OF THE COMIC GENRE IN ARKADY AVERCHENKO’S WORKS DURING HIS EMIGRATION TO EUROPE." Astraea 2, no. 2 (2021): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2021.2.2.02.
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The article analyzes some aspects of life and features of the work of the worldfamous satirist writer of the beginning of the last century Arkady Averchenko at the last stage of his emigration – during his staying in Europe, in particular, in the Czech Republic. The themes and motives of the writer’s works of this period of emigration, the characteristics of the characters, the main means of creating comic, changing the ideological direction and content of his writing in accordance with changes in worldview and understanding of events in the world such as the socio-political situation in the Bolshevik Russia and drastic changes in the lives of emigrants, who were forced to start a new, rather difficult, life, arriving in Europe after the October coup of 1917. The genre peculiarities of the European period of Arkady Averchenko’s work of 1922 – 1925 are determined. Despite the general satirical orientation of the writer, his previous humorous aesthetics remains relevant in the creative work of the writer. Thus, the collection «Children» published in 1922 is marked by sensitivity in the depiction of child psychology. However, the leading style remains tragicomic, which best realizes the motive of troubles of emigrants abroad. It takes place in a general atmosphere of nostalgia and longing for the lost homeland, a reappraisal of values caused by social upheavals, and an understanding of Russia’s destruction. The article considers the scientific reception of worldview changes in the emigration period of A. Averchenko in the studies of foreign and native scholars, as well as the phenomena of his work as the main dominants of the continuation of literary and artistic traditions. The creative phenomenon of Averchenko’s prediction of the future was noted, in particular, predicting the foreign policy strategy of the Soviet state, which was set out to consist of the capture of other countries or uncivilized interference in their lives.
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Zieliński, Miłosz J. "Z Kaliningradu na Кёнигсберг – zapotrzebowanie społeczne czy marzenie nielicznych? Społeczna inicjatywa zmiany nazwy miasta." Sprawy Narodowościowe, no. 43 (April 16, 2015): 131–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/sn.2013.022.
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Kaliningrad into Кёнигсберг – a social need or a dream of a few? Societal initiative for a change of the city’s nameKaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation has been subject to manifold social processes due to its specific history, geographic conditions and other factors. Some of the former resulted in rejecting numerous elements of the Soviet past by a part of the local population. This included the very name of Kaliningrad, as a tribute paid to Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin who has been considered one of the state and party officials responsible for mass purges in the 1930s and 1940s.the purpose of the article is to analyse the initiative put forward by a group of social activists to change the name ‘Kaliningrad’ into ‘Кёнигсберг’ (Königsberg), that is to return to the pre-war name of the city. As authors of the petition refer to previous attempts of changing the name and use them as an important part of their reasoning, the history of the notion has also been outlined with emphasis on the December 1988 discussion noted by Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, then a Communist Party official.In the article, a brief introduction of the petition is followed by main arguments used by its supporters and the discussion which the document triggered among the local administration and in the media, in particular the Internet. The discussion concentrated on two aspects of the petition. First, controversies around procedural handling of the petition by Kaliningrad Duma. Secondly, fierce debates about phrases used in the document and their political significance in the context of the contemporary identity of Kaliningrad Oblast.Results of the debate and the impact the petition had on broader public opinion, both in Kaliningrad Oblast and the whole of Russia, turned out to be meagre. Only 400 signatures were collected across the country to support the idea. No decisive measures were taken on the administrative level such as moving the initiative toward a referendum. No agreement was reached between those who wish to turn the whole notion down and those who would like to postpone the final decision to a more distant future.In conclusion, it is worth noting that despite the obvious failure of the petition the discussion showed considerable social activity in Kaliningrad Oblast, especially on the part of the younger generation. This was reflected by a number of threads and posts in electronic media, many of which served as a basis for a constructive debate with relatively few irrelevant (insulting, aggressive and vulgar) arguments. On the other hand, the article shows that there is still considerable nostalgia for the Soviet Union and its artifacts in Kaliningrad Oblast.
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Palmberger, Monika. "Nostalgia matters: Nostalgia for Yugoslavia as potential vision for a better future." Sociologija 50, no. 4 (2008): 355–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc0804355p.
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Nostalgia for Yugoslavia is a social phenomenon which prevails in present-day Mostar as well as elsewhere in the Yugoslav successor states. Even if attempts are made by the elites of local politics to erase traces of the Yugoslav past (especially in Croat dominated West Mostar), a good part of Mostar's population still nostalgically remembers that period. Until recently, nostalgia has been neglected as a subject of research in the social sciences and has been acknowledged - if at all - only as a phenomenon oriented towards the past. Recent studies, however, have emphasized a utopian character of nostalgia. It is particularly interesting to further investigate this aspect in the context of post-socialism. This paper discusses the selected narratives of two women whom I encountered during my fieldwork conducted between 2005 and 2008, and their relationship to Yugoslavia. It is shown that differences in their narratives can be related to their nationality and family backgrounds, but to the same degree - if not more so - to their age and the stage in life they are in. At the end of the paper I shall tackle the question whether nostalgia for Yugoslavia can hold as a potential vision for a better future and, if so, under which conditions.
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Al-Ghazzi, Omar. "Grendizer Leaves for Sweden." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11, no. 1 (March 19, 2018): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01101004.
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Abstract Exploring the post-March 2011 Syrian online sphere, in this article I focus on nostalgic videos and memes inspired by Arabic-dubbed Japanese anime series originally broadcast on Arab government TV stations in the 1980s. As part of a dissident social media culture, amateur videos that redubbed and edited childhood cartoons have appeared on YouTube since 2011—tackling themes of revolution, war and exile. These videos defied and mocked the Al-Assad regime, as well as the Islamic State. I argue that they are to be understood as empowering media practices for how they project political meaning onto childhood cartoons which are associated with a generational identity shared by now-adult Syrians. Highlighting an understudied aspect of media globalization—the influence of Japanese anime on Arab popular culture—in this article I examine a diverse body of social media clips and memes that recycle Japanese anime. I analyze their re-appropriation by Syrians, by offering a typology of nostalgic online practices in the contexts of war and the uprising. These can be summed up in three categories of nostalgic mediation: nostalgic defiance, as expressed in calls for political action; nostalgic mockery, as reflected in subversive nostalgic humor targeting authority; and nostalgic anguish, in reaction to the trauma of war and exile, for example, in relation to the Syrian refugee crisis.
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Raggio, Marcela. "Gethsemani, KY, de Ernesto Cardenal: recuperación del espacio ausente mediante la memoria y la resignificación del espacio presente." Literatura: teoría, historia, crítica 22, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 297–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v22n2.86089.
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Este artículo realiza una lectura del poemario Gethsemani, KY (1960) del nicaragüense Ernesto Cardenal, aplicando nociones teóricas vinculadas, por un lado, con la nostalgia y, por otro, con el espacio textual, a fin de señalar líneas de la poética de Cardenal relacionadas con la espacialidad y lo social. El artículo estudia algunos aspectos de la escritura del libro, tal como se revelan en el epistolario Merton-Cardenal, y propone que los textos incluidos en el volumen se presentan en una doble tensión: pasado-presente y allá-aquí. De la dialéctica entre tiempos y espacios alejados surge la poética temprana de Cardenal en la que es posible advertir rasgos del compromiso social y político que desarrollaría plenamente enlibros posteriores.
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Głowacka-Grajper, Małgorzata. "Memory in Post-communist Europe: Controversies over Identity, Conflicts, and Nostalgia." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 32, no. 4 (June 24, 2018): 924–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325418757891.
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This article is part of the special cluster titled Social practices of remembering and forgetting of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, guest edited by Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper Controversies over social memory form an important aspect of reality in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. On the one hand, there are debates about coming to terms with the communist past and the Second World War that preceded it (because important parts of the memory of the war were “frozen” during the communist era), and, on the other hand, and intimately connected to that, are discussions about the constant influence of communism on the current situation. This article presents some of the main trends in research on collective memory in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and reveals similarities and differences in the process of memorialization of communism in the countries of the region. Although there are works devoted to a comparative analysis of memory usage and its various interpretations in the political sphere in the countries of Eastern Europe, there are still many issues concerning daily practices (economic, religious, and cultural) associated with varying interpretations of the war and the communist past which needs further elaboration and analysis.
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Sadath K, Asfar. "Diasporic Dilemma in Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i2.10914.
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Identity is one of the important themes of the diasporic writing. Identity plays an important role in an immigrant's life because they feel rootless and nostalgic when they try to become members of a new group. There are different aspects of identities like political, social, cultural, economic and individual and so on. These are playing an important role in an immigrant's life. The concept of home always gives a sweet feel for immigrants. A sense of belongingness plays an important role in immigrant life. Immigrants never accept the host country as their country.
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Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie, Anthony Papathomas, Jonathan Foster, Eleanor Quested, and Nikos Ntoumanis. "“Shall We Dance?” Older Adults’ Perspectives on the Feasibility of a Dance Intervention for Cognitive Function." Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 26, no. 4 (October 1, 2018): 553–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2017-0203.
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We explored perceptions of social dance as a possible intervention to improve cognitive function in older adults with subjective memory complaints. A total of 30 participants (19 females; mean age = 72.6 years; SD = 8.2) took part in the study. This included 21 participants who had self-reported subjective memory complaints and nine spouses who noticed spousal memory loss. Semistructured interviews were conducted, and a thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Three main themes were constructed: (a) dance seen as a means of promoting social interaction; (b) chronic illness as a barrier and facilitator to participation; and (c) social dance representing nostalgic connections to the past. Overall, the participants were positive about the potential attractiveness of social dance to improve cognitive and social functioning and other aspects of health. In future research, it is important to examine the feasibility of a social dance intervention among older adults with subjective memory complaints.
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Rakšnys, Adomas Vincas, and Deimantė Žilinskienė. "Development of Tribal Marketing and Application Possibilities in Postmodern Society." Socialiniai tyrimai 44, no. 1 (May 26, 2021): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/soctyr.44.1.2.
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Relevance and problem of the topic. Global product and service innovations are driving changes in consumer behavior. Business organizations try to apply a variety of marketing strategies to take into account changing consumer values and behaviors, to form new relationships and emotional experiences for their clientele (Cova, Dalli, 2009, p. 315; Sanz-Marcos, 2020, p. 473). Retrospectively, modernized society was dominated by developed and stable social structures and hierarchies, while postmodern society was dominated by social networks of micro-groups, in which individuals establish strong emotional connections and attitudes toward life. In order to ensure effective attraction of new customers and loyalty of existing customers in a postmodern society, business organizations should take into account and acess cultural change, societal fragmentation, and declining social connections. Renewing these social connections in the form of a consumer tribe in connection with the consumption of a product or service is a marketing opportunity and necessity. The concept of tribal marketing in the context of marketing application is related to the recurring quasi-archaic values of consumers: group identity, religiosity, syncretism, group narcissism (Necualaesei, 2017, pp. 122–125; Pinto de Lima, Brito, 2012, p. 293; Cova, Cova, 2002, p. 4). The reintegration of these values in the new conditions is extremely important, especially emphasizing the long-term tendencies of social rationalization of society in many spheres of life, the importance of qualitative indicators in the modernist period. In postmodern society, there is a growing impulse to distance oneself from rational forms of life and return to a natural or primitive state, and this need can be exploited through tribal marketing, when analyzing tribal communities in surfing, where marketing ideals become freedom, simplicity, escape from everyday life and strong impressions. (Canniford, Shankar, 2011, p. 35–46). Other significant tribes such as the Goths, (Cova, Dalli, 2009, p. 323), Harley-Davidson motorcyclists, pipe collectors, and smokers can also be mentioned (Pace et al., 2011, pp. 314-320). V. Badrinarayanan, et. al., is of the opinion that communities of various online games can also be assigned to tribes (Barnes and Mattsson, 2016, p. 98).The problem analyzed in this article can be defined by the following questions: What promotes the formation of tribal marketing and what are the specifics of its application? What are the differences between tribal marketing and traditional marketing? How virtual tribe could formed?The object of the article is the development of tribal marketing and application possibilitiesThe aim of the article is to find out the development and application possibilities of tribal marketing in the postmodern society.Tasks: 1) to theoretically define the concept and essential principles of tribal marketing; 2) to reveal the cultural origins of tribal marketing and the reasons for its formation; 3) to identify the essential differences of tribal marketing in comparison with traditional marketing tools; 4) to reveal the changes related to the transition to the formation of virtual tribes.Methods: methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and comparative analysis of scientific literature.
An analysis of the scientific literature has revealed that tribal marketing is a theory that focuses on specific subcultures, and specific products or services become cult objects and emblems that represent belonging to these subcultures, encouraging individual consumption behavior. Tribal subcultures are characterized by strong emotional ties and experiences, common interests, and specific activities. These individuals exist in a peculiar subculture characterized by peculiar myths, values, rituals, language, and hierarchy. It is important to understand that individuals can belong to several tribes at the same time, and tribes are not limited by physical boundaries. The cultural origins of tribal marketing are related to the fragmented and individualized state of postmodern society and the need to reconstruct social ties. In postmodern society, the reintegration of archaic relations takes place under new conditions. The structure of tribal marketing integrates cultural aspects, linking them with the sentiments of primitive society, nostalgia for naturalness, the need for a closer social relationship with the group.However, with the changing technological environment and socio - cultural changes, the formation of tribes is moving into a virtual space. Technological changes have led to the formation of virtual tribes. In a virtual space, individuals and their groups can share the same emotions, opinions, information about a brand, product, or service. Technological change has made it possible for individuals from all over the world to find a group or groups united by common cultural elements. The essential criteria of a virtual tribe are that the tribe has a collective consciousness, rituals and traditions, duties, a sense of commitment to both the whole tribal community and its members. When analyzing virtual tribes, it is useful to rely on the 8E model, as it covers a systematic perspective in assessing the structure and functioning of virtual tribes. The processes of creating new social connections and forms are intensified by modern technologies. Users can interact with each other, regardless of territorial barriers, share information, form virtual tribes (Pinto de Lima, Brito, 2012, pp. 291– 292). It is becoming more important for business organizations not only to take advantage of traditional tribal marketing opportunities, but also to adapt to the opportunities provided by virtual space. However, the topic of tribal marketing is poorly researched in Lithuania.
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Rodríguez, Albeley. "El arte según Diego Barboza: Fiesta, irrupción del cotidiano a través de la nostalgia." Index, revista de arte contemporáneo, no. 03 (June 28, 2017): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.26807/cav.v0i03.54.
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El siguiente texto se propone reseñar algunos de los aspectos más destacados de la actividad artística desplegada por el venezolano Diego Barboza.Este artista tuvo, y continúa teniendo, relevancia a nivel internacional, debido a la singularidad de sus propuestas en el marco de los conceptualismos latinoamericanos. Cuando los lenguajes artísticos se inclinaban a la sofisticación del mainstream global, Barboza optó por enfatizar los valores y formas de la fiesta popular de las tradiciones venezolanas, en una traducción que la integró a nuevas estrategias de producción de significados, con influencia en la reflexividad en torno a formas de ser social más conectadas con la vida en común, la alegría y la incidencia colectiva en lo político.
Palabras claves: Experiencia, Acontecimiento, Performance, Fiesta popular, Arte conceptual latinoamericano.
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Coelho, Maria Claudia Pereira, and Eduardo Moura Pereira Oliveira. "REFLEXÕES SOBRE O TEMPO E AS EMOÇÕES NA ANTROPOLOGIA: DEFINIÇÕES, PRÁTICAS E POLÍTICAS." Sociologia & Antropologia 10, no. 3 (December 2020): 1087–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752020v10315.
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Resumo Este trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre as relações entre emoções, tempo e política, tendo como pressuposto a tensão entre as vivências subjetivas e a organização do fluxo da vida em passado, presente e futuro. Considerando a pluralidade de sentidos relacionados à experiência do tempo, exploramos os aspectos sociais e políticos ligados ao deslocamento das emoções das realidades imediatas, bem como as formas pelas quais os indivíduos entretêm relações afetivas com o tempo, revitalizando o passado ou imaginando o futuro de modo a engendrar formas de atuação política. O trabalho está organizado em duas seções de revisão bibliográfica relativas à fecundidade analítica de dois sentimentos: a nostalgia, com base em Berliner (2015), e a esperança, com base em Crapanzano (2004). Nas considerações finais, examinamos o rendimento heurístico do arcabouço conceitual delineado, apresentando algumas possibilidades de construção de objetos ligados às formas de atuação política.
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Rychlicka-Maraszek, Katarzyna. "Book review of: Klaudia Śledzińska (ed.). Responsibility – Participation - Conscious Citizenship – The Dilemmas of Global Education. Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Sociologiczne. Warszawa 2017." Papers of Social Pedagogy 9, no. 2 (September 4, 2018): 67–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.4390.
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In the contemporary world, modernising at an incredible pace, an increasing importance is being placed on education, which is supposed to prepare communities for this acceleration. A few areas can be separated during discussions on education: among the others it is the issue of competencies indispensable on the labour market of the future as well as values and global education. Such issues are also a starting point for the authors of the publication issued in English “Responsibility – Participation - Conscious Citizenship – The Dilemmas of Global Education. Global education – as it is the main subject matter of the publication - was implemented into Polish system of education in the school year 2009/2010 (it was placed in the core curriculum of general education). Prior to this, in 2002 in Maastricht European politicians developed Declaration of Global Education which put forward systemic solutions in this area. The significance of education in the world of multiculturalism and globalization was stressed out long before by researchers indicating the need to focus on such issues and prepare communities for the challenges of postmodernity. It emerges that after more than a dozen years of implementing and practicing global education there is still a need to intellectually deal with this difficult and complex notion. Real practice has revealed a number of areas which still are and will long continue to remain a challenge both for researchers and practitioners. The aim of the publication, edited by Klaudia Śledzińska, is to provide an answer to the question not so much about the essence of global education in Polish educational practice but rather about its axionormative dimension and values implemented in various social dimensions. The axis for deliberations undertaken by the authors is based on such values like responsibility, committed participation and social engagement. It is education – as observed by the editor in the introduction – that is supposed to “enhance the awareness and reflexive cognition of phenomena, social processes, interrelations between people and places, as well as to foster stronger social engagement” [s.8], It should also contribute to better understanding of mutual interrelations and the permeation of cultural, environmental, economic, social, political and technological systems. This, however requires a basic consensus regarding the understanding and interpretations of the values essential in education as well as their transmission methods. The publication is composed of three parts: the first two make an attempt to put in order the notions and conceptualize the categories of responsibility as well civic participation and civic society and akin ideas of a social bond and social capital. Part three deals with selected concepts of social life and experience, wherein we can discern the very essence of responsibility, participation and process towards conscious citizenship. Thus, presented are those aspects through which “we can appreciate the significance of educational actions towards the formation of responsible civic attitudes, notably work according to a corporational model, employee - volunteering, insurance reciprocity, horizontal and vertical gender segregation in scientific milieu as well as lifelong learning and activation of older people” [s.11]. It worth emphasizing several significant issues emphasized by the Authors and related to the notions related to global education, especially in the context of transformations of contemporary societies. One of them is a crucial issue present in public and academic discourse and dealing with the division of the world into global North and South, the impact of which is mostly “felt” by the countries of a global South. Global education which was supposed to increase sensitivity to the problems of inequality and bring closer or tame “the Other” has become an element of a specific symbolic violence and imposing on poor countries the civilizational and economic model incorporated in the countries of the North. Klaudia Śledzińska in her chapter focuses on a “hidden programme” of global education, thus a Europocentric, stereotyping model of creating a global awareness, taking no consideration of the specificity and local conditions, which the countries of the North “offer” to the global South. Another manifestation of organizing the world according to old post-colonial principles is “educational disease”, that is “forcing by the rich North the only vision of the development of the deprived regions, in both individual and group dimensions, by means of formal education towards achieving a high social status” [s.43]. Thus, paradoxically the present task of global education is to deconstruct itself and include/ take into consideration other perspectives and discourses, including the ones put forward by minorities. It is teaching responsibility, creating a strong personal subjectivity, stressing out respect to subjectivity of “the Other”, learning “out of Others and from Others [s.47]. Only such attitude where “personal subjectivity of “you” appears through “I” (and vice versa) (…) and thereby secures relationships which no longer carry the features of exploitation, injustice or dominance” [s.47]. In their publication, the Authors indicate and emphasize the significance of numerous citizen-making mechanisms, practices and strategies, which they place in the context of education, making it possible to disseminate and enhance them. Both the employee participation in companies, employee volunteering, pro-social activity on community portals but also more increasingly a common activity of women, the elderly not only on the labour market but also in the social sphere contributes to building a mature civic society. Nonetheless, it will not be lasting unless education provides substantial foundations based on commonly developed values. The proposal of the model of education offered in the publication means “focusing on teaching a pupil/student – not as an uprooted citizen of the world , but as a citizen endowed with his own unique identity, socially enrooted in concrete local contexts and capable of making rational choices”[s.52]. This statement - though perhaps controversial - gives the publication Authors- proprietary feature. It reveals that the recently depreciated locality and identity, built around universal values such as responsible partnership still remains valid. In the first chapters of the publication a certain nostalgia for the return of the “culture of character” instead of the currently functioning culture of personality is clearly seen (from the perspective of one of the authors, a crucial moment for an axio-normative shift and understanding responsibility took place in the early 20th century). It “was a shift from the culture of character to the culture of personality, from internal to external values” . “The culture of character was associated with the notions of, e.g.: citizenship, obligation, democracy, labour, honour, reputation, morality. The culture of personality, in other words, the culture of “making a good impression on others” and “standing out from the crowd” refers rather to the categories of: fascination, attractiveness, bewilderment, creativity, domination, strength, power or determination” [s.20]. Even though the publication is not easy to read and requires an attentive and careful reader, it is a great contribution to the discussion on the essence and directions of global education development, especially in its axionormative character. It is recommended not only for researchers but also non-academics who are committed to the idea of the world continuously improving but also learning from its own mistakes.
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Kone, Ténon. "El hyphen o la expresión de la identidad erosionada en la narrativa guineoecuatoriana de migración." Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporáneos del Sur Global 2, no. 6 (December 11, 2021): e21077. http://dx.doi.org/10.46652/pacha.v2i6.77.
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Los estudiosos reconocen que las migraciones se han convertido en un desafío fundamental de la vida política, social e imaginaria de las regiones del “Tout-Monde”. Por lo mismo hay una innegable acentuación de las migraciones intraafricanas, transafricanas y transcontinentales. A las migraciones Sud-Sud, se añaden las migraciones hacia Europa/Occidente que captan todavía más la atención de los medios masivos de comunicación. Este artículo examina algunos aspectos teórico-prácticos en torno a la identidad del migrante subsahariano poscolonial, a partir de dos novelas guineoecuatorianas, Los poderes de la tempestad de Donato Ndongo y Nostalgia de un emigrante de Inocencio Engon. Se revisa, por ejemplo, el concepto de identidad y se defiende su condición unitaria y compleja/dinámica a la vez. Además, tras señalar “diversas fuerzas” que operan en contra de esta compleja realidad psíquica, se muestra que la erosión de la identidad básica se produce tanto en el regazo familiar como en situación de hyphen es decir en contexto de migración.
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Landy, Francis. "In the Wilderness of Speech: Problems of Metaphor in Hosea." Biblical Interpretation 3, no. 1 (1995): 35–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851595x00032.
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AbstractMy concern in this essay is with integrative and disintegrative aspects of metaphor. Metaphor, in current theory, is less the transfer of the properties of one semantic field onto another than a process towards an ideal object, wherewith we establish our sense of identity (Lakoff, Kristeva). I draw on psychoanalytic theory, especially Kristeva and Winnicott, to discuss the origins of metaphor in the relations of mother and child, and, in particular, the growth of a "play space," composed of transitional objects, as the nucleus of culture and creativity. Metaphors are generally metaphors for others, linked on complex chains of displacement and deferment. Hence they are unstable; each metaphor will be replaced or countermanded by others. Metaphor, in its integrative aspect, seeks to make sense of a fragmented world; by connecting disparate terms, it risks nonsense. Metaphorical language, especially in Hosea, is often fractured, baffling, and claims a status verging on madness. In Hosea, it seeks mimetically both to depict social and political entropy, and to interpret it, thus reconstructing and repairing its world. The principal analyses undertaken are of the ambiguous clause, "I am/where are your words/plagues, O Death," in 13:14, and of God's nostalgic fantasy of courting Israel in the wilderness in 2:16—17. The former either subordinates God to death, as the all-encompassing reality of the book, or renders death unreal, inarticulate. The latter turns on the paradoxes of speech and silence, communicated by the pun between wilderness word
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Oliete-Aldea, Elena. "Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy House (2017) and Other Evictions: Transnational Connections of Past and Present Crises in Cinema." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 83 (2021): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.13.
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Crisis is the word that seems to best characterize the twenty-first century conjuncture. The bleakness and instability of an uncertain and troubled present often encourages the proliferation of nostalgic images of past times, which become sweetened scenarios for escapist memories. On the other hand, the local and global current economic, social and political divisions have also brought to light the need to revisit certain aspects of the past from other perspectives. This is the case of Gurinder Chadha’s films, which frequently advocate for the crossing of cultural borders by showing the hybrid nature of communities and their heritage. Following Robert Stam’s cultural and filmic methodology which includes a transdisciplinary, transmediatic, transtextual, transregional, and transartistic approach (2019), I aim to analyze Chadha’s Viceroy’s House as a film that proposes a revision of India’s Partition while offering a critical transnational and intersectional connection of contemporary global and local scenarios.
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Stokowski, Patricia A. "Re-interpreting the past to shape the future: The uses of memory discourses in community tourism development." Tourism and Hospitality Research 16, no. 3 (June 6, 2016): 254–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358415600213.
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Ideas about collective memory are implicit in tourism development, even when development projects are primarily entertainment-oriented. This paper studies collective memory in the form of community creation myths associated with the transformation of two rural towns from seasonal tourism to casino gaming. Known for their contributions to Colorado mining history, Central City and Black Hawk adopted casino gambling in 1991. This paper presents data from a longitudinal study of creation myth discourses expressed by stakeholders across several decades. Data show that over time, spokespersons more frequently described a nostalgic yearning for earlier mining periods, though the content and form of discourses varied by commentator. Local residents made more emotional appeals, while local leaders’ and external entrepreneurs’ claims were more strategic. This study shows how memory is manipulated, especially during periods of rapid tourism growth, shedding light on under-studied aspects of social and cultural impacts of tourism development.