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This volume provides an overview of a number of different areas of social and cultural life in which nostalgia is shown to be an important prism for understanding and analysing human thoughts, actions and feelings.
Featuring a rich collection of empirical studies and analyses of nostalgia, the contributors demonstrate creative ways to study nostalgia - from qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews/narrative analyses to experimental methods that involve inducing nostalgia in research participants. Altogether, these studies highlight the variability of the experience of nostalgia as well as the usefulness of nostalgia at both individual and collective levels, ultimately showing nostalgia to be a helpful, enriching emotion in everyday, pragmatic ways and also at deep, philosophical levels.
Exploring Nostalgia will appeal to scholars, academics, faculty and advanced students with interests in social theory, psychology, cultural studies and the sociology of emotions.
Contents
Introduction - Living in Times of Nostalgia: Empirical Studies of Contemporary Experiences and Practices 1. Why Be Nostalgic About Work? Exploring the Paradoxes of Workplace Attachment and Loss 2. Conscious Nostalgia: Reflections on Historical Craft Demonstrations 3. Neo-craft and Nostalgia 4. Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia and Belonging in Retirement Migration: British Women Living in Spain 5. Nostalgia in 'Sin City': Exploring Nostalgic Ambivalences Among Expats in Pattaya 6. Nostalgias and Belongings in the Neoliberal Context: A Chilean Case 7. Ostalgie: Nostalgia as Identity Politics 8. The Dark Side of Longing: How Nostalgia and Prostalgia May Be Used To Further Extremist Ideologies 9. Enchanted Places, Invoked Pasts: Nostalgia, Dementia and Poetry 10. Cherished Memories: Nostalgia as a Source of Well-Being 11. Even Nostalgia Scholars are Nostalgic: Reflections on and Experiences with Personal Nostalgia Afterword - Reflections on Nostalgia in Research and Life: Applications and Implications