Velvet Retro

Velvet RetroScholars of state socialism have frequently invoked nostalgia to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a retro fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro

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This text describes what is distinctive about Indigenous approaches to health and healing and why it should be studied as a discrete field

Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia sheds light on situations of contact in which disparate cultures meet and wrestle with each other in highly asymmetric relations of power

and proposes hypotheses on their origin

In this biography of Tsar Teh-yun

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the reader is left with a sensitivity and an awareness of the role one might play in the survivor's journey

While the elderly Serebryakov enjoys life in the city

as well as the organizations ACT UP and Lesbian Avengers