Nicholas Manganas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Manganas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Manganas |
| SIGNATURE | MANGANAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6121-2531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to the Special Issue
This introduction frames the special issue Gendered Life Stories and the Politics of Imagination within a broader crisis of narration, where storytelling is both culturally ubiquitous and increasingly unstable. Drawing on feminist theory and narrative studies, it explores how gendered life stories function as narrative technologies—forms through which marginalised subjects navigate risk, challenge dominant frameworks, and reimagine what kinds of …
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Citizenship in Higher Education
This introduction to the special issue on Global Citizenship in Higher Education explores how global citizenship is understood and practiced in higher education. It reflects on the term’s multiple meanings and how it is shaped by diverse cultural, political, and educational contexts. The articles in this special issue examine how global citizenship is taught, lived, and imagined—whether through study abroad programs, language education, or creati…
Horizons
This reflection explores the metaphorical significance of the horizon in inspiring ventures beyond the familiar. Through the lens of the International Studies program at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), it examines how students engage with new cultural and intellectual frontiers, expanding their ‘space of experience’ and ‘horizon of expectation’ in line with Reinhard Koselleck’s theoretical framework. This transformative journey challen…
The unconscious nation
This article introduces the concept of national confabulation to describe the unconscious formation and widespread internalisation of emotionally charged yet historically distorted national narratives. Drawing from clinical understandings of confabulation as an involuntary response to cognitive disorientation, the concept is expanded into the psychosocial domain to illuminate how such narratives emerge amid ambient crisis and digital hyperconnect…
Introduction to Sticky Memories
This special issue, Sticky Memories: The Emotional Landscape of Food, explores the profound impact of culinary experiences on our emotional and cultural landscapes. It examines how food, beyond its material form, becomes a powerful symbol in our personal and communal narratives. The issue engages with the concept of 'stickiness' in food memories, where culinary experiences not only linger but also shape identity, resist replication, and reflect c…
A Europe of stories
In January 2019, 30 leading European intellectuals, including Bernard-Henri Lévy and Orhan Pamuk, pronounced that ‘the idea of Europe is in peril’. Their voices added to a general sense from all corners of the European continent that the liberal narratives that have sustained the European Union integration project are under attack. Is it true, as Pamuk suggested, that Europe no longer makes us dream? What would it take to reactivate Europe’s abil…
Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities
Mediterranean port cities share a number of trajectories that reveal their constitutive interconnectedness. Among the more recent is the process of urban regeneration that many of these cities have undergone over the last two decades. Several studies have analysed the implications of urban renewal from a socio-economic and urban planning perspective. However, the intersection between diverse urban restructuring processes and the emotions that cri…
A Borrowed Life
A Place to Finally Rest
This article argues that economic crisis and austerity ruptured how many young Spaniards understand their place in the world by disrupting their sense of what makes home home. It analyses two Spanish films in the emergent subgenre of crisis cinema, Techo y comida (2015) and Hermosa juventud (2014) and argues that crisis cinema not only viscerally depicts the Spanish economic crisis as a failure of late capitalism, but it also challenges us to thi…
Real men
In Spectre (2015), British pop star Sam Smith contributed the James Bond theme The Writing’s on the Wall and in so doing was accused of emasculating the towering figure of Bond who has been the epitome of ‘manliness’ since the franchise’s inception in 1962. In this article I argue that Smith Smith’s voice discomforted many of its critics because it penetrated the Bond universe with its passivity, revealing the enigmatic nature of masculinity in a…
The Possibility of a 'Dead Europe
This article posits that two constituent mythologies sustain and drive the EU integration process. The first is the tension between the twin narratives of “perpetual peace” and “perpetual suffering.” The second fundamental mythology of the EU project is the tension between the narratives of Europe as on the one hand “authentic” and as “cosmopolitan” on the other. Both of these constituent mythologies are essential in forming what is emerging as a…
The unconscious nation
This article introduces the concept of national confabulation to describe the unconscious formation and widespread internalisation of emotionally charged yet historically distorted national narratives. Drawing from clinical understandings of confabulation as an involuntary response to cognitive disorientation, the concept is expanded into the psychosocial domain to illuminate how such narratives emerge amid ambient crisis and digital hyperconnect…
The Possibility of a 'Dead Europe
This article posits that two constituent mythologies sustain and drive the EU integration process. The first is the tension between the twin narratives of “perpetual peace” and “perpetual suffering.” The second fundamental mythology of the EU project is the tension between the narratives of Europe as on the one hand “authentic” and as “cosmopolitan” on the other. Both of these constituent mythologies are essential in forming what is emerging as a…
The Possibility of a 'Dead Europe
This article posits that two constituent mythologies sustain and drive the EU integration process. The first is the tension between the twin narratives of “perpetual peace” and “perpetual suffering.” The second fundamental mythology of the EU project is the tension between the narratives of Europe as on the one hand “authentic” and as “cosmopolitan” on the other. Both of these constituent mythologies are essential in forming what is emerging as a…
Real men
In Spectre (2015), British pop star Sam Smith contributed the James Bond theme The Writing’s on the Wall and in so doing was accused of emasculating the towering figure of Bond who has been the epitome of ‘manliness’ since the franchise’s inception in 1962. In this article I argue that Smith Smith’s voice discomforted many of its critics because it penetrated the Bond universe with its passivity, revealing the enigmatic nature of masculinity in a…
A Place to Finally Rest
This article argues that economic crisis and austerity ruptured how many young Spaniards understand their place in the world by disrupting their sense of what makes home home. It analyses two Spanish films in the emergent subgenre of crisis cinema, Techo y comida (2015) and Hermosa juventud (2014) and argues that crisis cinema not only viscerally depicts the Spanish economic crisis as a failure of late capitalism, but it also challenges us to thi…
A Borrowed Life
A Europe of stories
In January 2019, 30 leading European intellectuals, including Bernard-Henri Lévy and Orhan Pamuk, pronounced that ‘the idea of Europe is in peril’. Their voices added to a general sense from all corners of the European continent that the liberal narratives that have sustained the European Union integration project are under attack. Is it true, as Pamuk suggested, that Europe no longer makes us dream? What would it take to reactivate Europe’s abil…
Emotional scapes in Mediterranean port cities
Mediterranean port cities share a number of trajectories that reveal their constitutive interconnectedness. Among the more recent is the process of urban regeneration that many of these cities have undergone over the last two decades. Several studies have analysed the implications of urban renewal from a socio-economic and urban planning perspective. However, the intersection between diverse urban restructuring processes and the emotions that cri…
Introduction to Sticky Memories
This special issue, Sticky Memories: The Emotional Landscape of Food, explores the profound impact of culinary experiences on our emotional and cultural landscapes. It examines how food, beyond its material form, becomes a powerful symbol in our personal and communal narratives. The issue engages with the concept of 'stickiness' in food memories, where culinary experiences not only linger but also shape identity, resist replication, and reflect c…
Hablo por mi diferencia
Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Citizenship in Higher Education
This introduction to the special issue on Global Citizenship in Higher Education explores how global citizenship is understood and practiced in higher education. It reflects on the term’s multiple meanings and how it is shaped by diverse cultural, political, and educational contexts. The articles in this special issue examine how global citizenship is taught, lived, and imagined—whether through study abroad programs, language education, or creati…
Horizons
This reflection explores the metaphorical significance of the horizon in inspiring ventures beyond the familiar. Through the lens of the International Studies program at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), it examines how students engage with new cultural and intellectual frontiers, expanding their ‘space of experience’ and ‘horizon of expectation’ in line with Reinhard Koselleck’s theoretical framework. This transformative journey challen…
The unconscious nation
This article introduces the concept of national confabulation to describe the unconscious formation and widespread internalisation of emotionally charged yet historically distorted national narratives. Drawing from clinical understandings of confabulation as an involuntary response to cognitive disorientation, the concept is expanded into the psychosocial domain to illuminate how such narratives emerge amid ambient crisis and digital hyperconnect…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This introduction frames the special issue Gendered Life Stories and the Politics of Imagination within a broader crisis of narration, where storytelling is both culturally ubiquitous and increasingly unstable. Drawing on feminist theory and narrative studies, it explores how gendered life stories function as narrative technologies—forms through which marginalised subjects navigate risk, challenge dominant frameworks, and reimagine what kinds of …
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