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Geek nostalgia: The...
Geek nostalgia: The reflective and restorative defence of white male geek culture
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- Ottemo, Andreas, 1979 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik,Department of Education and Special Education,University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Berge, Maria, 1979- (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för naturvetenskapernas och matematikens didaktik,UmSER
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- Mendick, Heather (author)
- Independent Academic, UK
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958- (author)
- Umeå universitet,Pedagogiska institutionen
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- Sage Publications, 2024
- 2024
- English.
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In: New Media and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315.
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- During recent decades, geek culture has become increasingly visible, and the geek has left the cultural margins, becoming more popular than ever. At the same time, nostalgia has emerged as a central component of geek culture. Framed by a post-structural understanding of gender and race and drawing on cultural theorist Svetlana Boym’s distinction between reflective and restorative nostalgia, this article explores how and why geeks nostalgically long for a time when they were largely marginalized. We combine readings of Swedish online geek podcasts and YouTube channels with ethnographic visits to geek conferences and pop-cultural “geek fairs,” such as Comic Con and SciFiWorld. We argue that geek nostalgia represents a clinging on to a “constitutive wound,” allowing the geek figure to mobilize masculine victimhood in ways that simultaneously underpin geek privilege and allow the geek to continue operating as a white male gatekeeper of geek culture.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Lärande (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Educational Sciences -- Learning (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Annan humaniora -- Etnologi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Other Humanities -- Ethnology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Medievetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Media and Communications -- Media Studies (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Geek culture
- gender
- masculinity
- nostalgia
- race
- Geek culture
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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