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Showing 1 to 20 of 326 for “"nostalgia"”.
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Voting for nostalgia?: Authoritarian nostalgia, social identity, and political behavior in post-authoritarian democracies
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Unsettling Nostalgia: The Difficult Journey Home
Contained within the following pages is a narrative inquiry which analyzes the impact of place upon those who have occupied particular rural Southern spaces. This ethnography pays special attention to life forces and attempts to confront issues of gender, race, class, religion, and community by …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… can glean moments where a soundtrack of liberal nostalgia begins to form. Drawing on sound studies, gender and race theory, and postmodern media critique, “Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia” illustrates how this twentieth century soundtrack has become ingrained in a …
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
Using the form of an essay I discuss the preservation of built heritage from the 'difficult' histories of colonialism and enslavement, linking together the global stories of oppression through colonialism and slavery to the global tourism and pressure for economic growth today. I focus on Yangon, …
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Nostalgia and the idea of urban ruin
An archetype for nostalgia withholds moments, suspending time in a state between memory and anticipation. Gravity plays an essential role in creating time in architecture: it gives physicality to the transience, allows time to be experienced with one's senses and imagination. In that sense, time is …
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The relationship between nostalgia, social exclusion, and empathy
As a positive, social emotion, nostalgia has the potential to reduce the negative impact of social exclusion on empathy. I ran a series of experiments in order to establish the relationship between nostalgia, social exclusion, and empathy. In Studies 1 and 2, participants were instructed to recall …
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Singaporean Cinema in the 21st Century: Screening Nostalgia
In the 21st century, the notion of nostalgia has become more and more prevalent in Singaporean films. However, current studies of Singaporean cinema either adopt an auteurist approach or focus on the resistance against the government and the marginality of citizens from the lower social stratum, …
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Saudades de Arcoverde: nostalgia and the performance of origin
… entertainment industry. Written with tinges of nostalgia and tragicomic irony, this work traces how marginal-turned-traditional musicians on the cusp of commodification navigate this newfound world of music as a commodity, rendering the idiosyncratic play of social inclusion and exclusion they …
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Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium
… videogames. The increasing presence of nostalgia is deemed paradoxical to a forward-facing high technology medium such as videogames. Yet, this is only a symptom of an underlying problem with the medium. By expanding upon hauntology, as used by Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds to examine …
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"As-Yet-Still-Forgiven Past": Dylan Thomas and Nostalgia
… A careful study of his life will reveal a nostalgia that evolved from adolescent musings upon an ideal past, to a self-destructive urge to return to innocence through death. Thomas incorporates a variety of historical influences within this nostalgia, but his primary influence is ultimately …
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Immigrant Risk, Self-Discontinuity, and the Role of Nostalgia
… discontinuity as a core feature of migration, 3) nostalgia as a defense against discontinuity. The study tested two moderated mediation models of psychological distress and of life satisfaction, with magnitude of difference between home and host countries as the independent variable, self- …
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Nostalgia, emotionality, and ethno-regionalsim in Pontic parakathi singing
This dissertation explores the multilayered connections between music, emotionality, social and cultural belonging, collective memory, and identity discourse. The ethnographic case study for the examination of all these relations and aspects is the Pontic muhabeti or parakathi. Parakathi refers to …
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Parody and nostalgia : contemporary re-writing of Madame White Snake
… China as a Chinese resident in Hong Kong. Her nostalgia for traditional China is not idealistic but paradoxical, because her re-writing of the story was an avenue to understand and re-negotiate her identity. Li is also well-known for her other novels, which are parodies of classical literature, …
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Nostalgia and wellbeing in autistic and non-autistic young adults
Research shows that nostalgia - remembering with emotion - supports wellbeing in the general population. The studies within this body of work are the first to explore whether the same is true for autistic individuals – a group of people who experience the world differently and often experience …
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Performing nostalgia: body, memory, and the aesthetics of past-home
… beginnings, the meanings and usages of nostalgia have shifted markedly. In the shifting, nostalgia’s associations with the body and with the concept of home has diminished. This study of African American nostalgia for Africa uses genealogical inquiry, personal and autoethnographic …
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Nostalgia and heritage in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, 1956 to 1990
… potential heritage resources and the value of nostalgia as a method for engaging with these marginal heritages. The case is a set of values of a group of past users of a series of entertainment structures in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, from 1956 to 1990. Their everyday experience of living in …
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From nostalgia to architecture: a stair for New York City
… rational clarity to the concepts associated with nostalgia in an effort to intelligently transform its essence into an expression of architecture relevant to the spirit of this culture and time.
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