The Impact of World War I on Middle East “Arabs” in Awwad’s “Al-Raghif”: A Cultural Perspective by Hamid Lateef Wisam

“…My paper will explore the genre of war narrative from a cultural perspective, namely the impact of the Great War on Arabs in the novel Al-Raghif (The Loaf’) in 1939 by the Lebanese novelist Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, as it is the first Arabic novel which is totally concerned with WWI and its longlasting consequences: hunger, despair and the elusive promise of freedom to Arabs.…”
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Re-framing the Spanish Civil War as ‘Cultural Trauma’: When Responsibilities Get Blurred After Violence by Rafael Pérez Baquero

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Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture  by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

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Youth aspirations for integration of Old Serbia into influential social and cultural circles of Europe before the Balkan Wars by Stanojević Saša D.

“…This paper deals with the engagement of Serbian youth in social change placed in the context of critical historical events related to time before liberation of the area of Old Serbia in the Balkan Wars. Based on the testimony of some contemporaries and selected historiographical literature, article presents an analysis of the youth activities of the late 19th and especially at the beginning of the 20th century, which indicates its distinct and specific contribution to the cultural emancipation. …”
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“The greatest of all garden parties:” the Great War, Memory and Cultural Myths in Katherine Mansfield’s Critical Writing by Janka Kaščáková

“…Katherine Mansfield’s critical works serve as a brilliant illustration of these tensions and among the most interesting are her reviews of the contemporary literature dealing with World War I and the cultural myths attached to it. Mansfield uncovers and analyses a whole range of approaches from the mythical presentation of war as “a cleansing fire” to the use of the fashionable topic of war trauma by authors who have not undergone the “change of heart” that Mansfield deemed necessary after the war experience. …”
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Thomas R. Lindlof (2008) Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars by Colm O'Shea

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Digital Gaming: A Comparative International Study of Youth Culture in a Peaceful and War Zone Country by Lyn Henderson, Yoram Eshet-Alkalai, Joel Klemes

“…This paper reports an exploratory survey in Australia and Israel of the leisure habits, attitudes and preferences of 716 teenagers aged 13-14 years who are part of the international digital games culture. The rationale was threefold: (a) this age group is not singled out in other surveys; (b) examination of gaming across five platforms would contribute new insights; and (c) the premise that a comparison between eGamers in a war zone and a peaceful country would produce striking contrasts. …”
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Survival of the common graves of the Spanish civil war in the 21st century. Cultural evidence, academic particularity by Queralt Solé

“…In the present article an approximation is made to the different forms of cultural and historical production that have taken place in Spain around the mass graves of the Spanish civil war in the 21st century. …”
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Life in Khartoum: Probing Forced Migration and Cultural Change Among War-Displaced Southern Sudanese Women by Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa

“…An analysis of the findings demonstrated a strong link between war-displacement and the adoption of FC. In addition to expanding the anthropological and demographic literature on the practice of female circumcision, and that on displacement, this study explored the phenomenon of cultural responses in times of human trauma and suffering. …”
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Remapping the Sinophone: the cultural production of Chinese-language cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War by Hee, Wai Siam

“…In a work that will force scholars to re-evaluate how they approach Sinophone studies, Wai-Siam Hee demonstrates that many of the major issues raised by contemporary Sinophone studies were already hotly debated in the popular culture surrounding Chinese-language films made in Singapore and Malaya during the Cold War. …”
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Worship Wars! : cultural transition of praise and worship in Chinese dialect-based churches of tradition denomination in Singapore by Chang, Dorcas Ping

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Historical framing of the Ukraine Crisis through the Great Patriotic War: Performativity, cultural consciousness and shared remembering by McGlynn, J

“…Remembering in Russia is increasingly performative and actualised, as shown by the Russian government and media’s conflation of the Ukraine Crisis with the Great Patriotic War. By presenting the Great Patriotic War as a frame though which to understand events in Ukraine, the media and government guided domestic political perceptions of the contemporary crisis and encouraged participative shared remembering as a bulwark against threats to Russian national identity and historical legacies. …”

Museum Activists as Agents of Social Change in War by Polina Verbytska, Svitlana Muravska

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Overcoming Post-War Traumas and Confl icts through Dialogue in Distributed Cognition by Banka Augustine

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The First “Mrs. Japanese” of Slovenia between the Two World Wars by Klara Hrvatin

“…Such lectures testify to the Japanese-Slovenian cultural exchanges, and the cultural milieu in Slovenia in which she acted. …”
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Gerhard Richter’s Critical Artistic Strategies: Politics, Terrorism and War by Van Schepen Randall K.

“…Oktober 1977 (1988) and War Cut (2004). In his series of paintings on the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, Richter effectively employs his “photopainting” style to address the profoundly disturbing deaths of the Baader-Meinhof group in the 1970s. …”
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Feasts of Indifference: Racialization, Affect, and Necropolitics in 1X War Games by Mahshid Mayar

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Russia–Ukraine war: Understanding and responding to wars and rumours of wars as ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων by Chidinma P. Ukeachusim

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Representation of the Great Patriotic War in online communities by Golovashina O.V.

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De kunst van het verbergen. Een lichtzinnige naziprins en de Nederlandse monarchie (discussiedossier over Bernhard. Een verborgen geschiedenis) by G. Deneckere

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