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Reclaiming Nostalgia
Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. InReclaiming Nostalgia,Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon by tracing its dominant forms in American literature and culture since the closing of the frontier in 1890. While referencing nostalgia for pastoral communities and for untamed and often violent frontiers, she also highlights the ways in which nostalgia for nature has served as a mechanism for social change, a model for ethical relationships, and a motivating force for social and environmental justice.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implications of nostalgia for land and homeland, thinking them anew through questions of exile and language. Ultimately, Cassin shows how contemporary philosophy opens up the political stakes of rootedness and uprootedness, belonging and foreignness, helping us to reimagine our relations to others in a global and plurilingual world.
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Nostalgie
La nostalgie fait-elle partie des universaux de l'esprit humain ? Ce thème a été développé par vingt-quatre intervenants qui en ont décliné des variations sur tous les tons, dans tous les genres. Des classiques de Chateaubriand, Mauriac à Camus, ont côtoyé des contemporains comme Koltès, Modiano ou Enard, des voisins tels que Joyce, Barry ou Nothomb ont rencontré des écrivains lointains d'Estonie, de Hongrie, du Liban, de Russie, célèbres ou inconnus, parfois émigrés : Kundera, Sandor Marai ou Isabel Allende.
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George Copway's Figures of Homesickness
This essay reads George Copway's autobiography, The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847), in terms of a series of dramatic sociopolitical and environmental changes that shape the text, including the arrival of Protestant religious cultures in the Great Lakes region, the decline of the fur trade, the beginning of an American timber and mineral boom, and, most significantly, the emergence of the Ojibwe Nation as a collective political entity. Faced with these interconnected disturbances to established ways of living and being, Copway turned to literary travel writing as a means of navigating a changing world. Reading this text as a travel narrative, the author concludes, offers an important window into Copway's historical experiences and his use of literary writing as a resource for nineteenth-century life. Copway's sense of homesickness ultimately suggests a tribally specific, place-based response to colonialism and the rupture of his established ways of being and moving about in the world.
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Does homesickness undermine the potential of job resources? A perspective from the work–home resources model
Rapid economic development in recent decades has resulted in a considerable increase in the number of people working far away from their home locations. Homesickness is a common reaction to the separation from home. Our research uses the work–home resources model to explain how the experience of homesickness can undermine the positive effect of job resources on job performance (i.e., task performance and safety behavior). In addition, we hypothesize that emotional stability and openness are key resources that can buffer the negative interference of homesickness with the job resources–performance relationship. We conducted two studies to test our hypotheses. Study 1 was a two-wave longitudinal study using a migrant manufacturing worker sample. In this study, homesickness was measured at the between-person level, and performance was measured three months later. Study 2 was a daily diary study conducted in a military trainee sample. In this study, homesickness was measured at the within-person level to capture its fluctuations over 20 days, and daily job performance was assessed using supervisor ratings. Both studies showed evidence of the hypothesized moderating effect of homesickness and three-way interaction effects of job resources, homesickness, and key resources (i.e., emotional stability and openness) on task performance and safety behavior.
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Creative Arts Therapies as Temporary Home for Refugees: Insights from Literature and Practice
One of the frequently overlooked psychosocial problems of refugees is the phenomenon of homesickness. Being forced into exile and unable to return home may cause natural feelings of nostalgia but may also result in emotional, cognitive, behavioral and physical adversities. According to the literature, the creative arts therapies with their attention to preverbal language—music, imagery, dance, role play, and movement—are able to reach individuals through the senses and promote successive integration, which can lead to transformation and therapeutic change. These forms of therapy can be a temporary home for refugees in the acculturation process, by serving as a safe and enactive transitional space. More specifically, working with dance and movement can foster the experience of the body as a home and thus provide a safe starting place, from which to regulate arousal, increase interoception, and symbolize trauma- and resource-related processes. Hearing, playing, and singing music from the home culture may assist individuals in maintaining their cultural and personal individuality. Creating drawings, paintings, or sculpturing around the topics of houses and environments from the past can help refugees to retain their identity through art, creating safe spaces for the future helps to look ahead, retain resources, and regain control. This article provides a literature review related to home and homesickness, and the role the arts therapies can play for refugees in transition. It further reports selected interview data on adverse life events and burdens in the host country from a German study. We propose that the creative arts therapies are not only a container that offers a temporary home, but can also serve as a bridge that gently guides refugees to a stepwise integration in the host country. Several clinical and research examples are presented suggesting that the support and affirmation through the creative arts can strengthen individuals in their process of moving from an old to a new environment.
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440 - Dementia villages: rethinking dementia care
Introduction:Over the past 20 to 30 years, alternative dementia care models have been developed. Dementia villages challenge popular perceptions about life with dementia and contrast to the traditional model of long-term care facilities that are often seen as institutional, impersonal, and risk-averse. The first dementia village, De Hogeweyk, was developed in 2009 and is located in Weesp, Netherlands. Hogeweyk aims to create a safe environment, enabling the person with dementia to live an “ordinary life” with as much autonomy as possible and also maintaining integration with the local community. Other dementia villages have been established in several countries, following De Hogeweyk model.Objectives:The aim of this presentation is to describe the functioning of dementia villages and evaluate its benefits on dementia patients.Methods:A non-systematic review of the literature was performed on PubMed, PsycINFO and Web of science using selected keywords. We also consult the official websites of the institutions.Results:Dementia villages seem to improve functioning and reduce the need for medication. Anxiety, restlessness and homesickness can still persist, but are reduced by the homelike and hospitable setting in which residents live. In fact, antipsychotic medication use at the residence has decreased from approximately 50% of residents, before the dementia village was introduced, to approximately 12% in 2019. The staff also reported greater job satisfaction. Although dementia villages are growing throughout the Western world, this concept has also been criticized, arguing that this type of living is dishonest, misleading the residents to believe that they are still living in the ‘real community’.Conclusions:Dementia villages are guided by the principles “deinstitutionalize, transform and normalize” care for people with advanced dementia. Although its intuitive advantages, there is no research evidence to demonstrate that this environment has any beneficial effect in behaviour, functional ability or cognition. In future studies, clinical outcomes could be used as a measure of quality of care. Hogeweyk concept has made societies rethinking dementia care and has been inspiring the development of other innovative models of dementia care.
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Baba’s Death: Nour’s Nostalgic Voice in Zyen Joukhadar’s The Map of Salt and Stars
This article discusses how nostalgia functions as a successful tool of resistance in The Map of Salt and Stars (2018). The article examines the representation of nostalgia of a displaced character called Nour emphasizing how weather and place shape her homesickness. It also investigates how the character copes with her nostalgic experience in an attempt to construct her shattered personality. We contend that there is a link between nostalgia, memories, weather, and place using the concept nostalgia as outlined by Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, and Clay Routledge. This reading helps us better understand the narratives under discussion and comprehend the psychological development of diasporic individuals. Overall, the paper concludes that Nour’s nostalgia is powered by her memories and weather, which enables her to resist the impact of the death of her father.
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