"This book examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire for various groups in the region. Rather than focus on how Ottomanism evolved, the book examines how social and political memories of the Ottoman pas…
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"This book examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire for various groups in the region. Rather than focus on how Ottomanism evolved, the book examines how social and political memories of the Ottoman pas…
1. From the past to the present : a history of nostalgia -- 2. How we perceive and experience nostalgia -- 3. What makes people nostalgic? -- 4. The affective consequences of nostalgia -- 5. The social functions of nostalgia -- 6. The self-related functions of nostalgia -- 7. Th…
Explains in detail what nostalgia is, how views of it have changed over time, and how it has been studied by social scientists. Routledge explores issues like how common nostalgia is and whether people differ in their tendency to be nostalgic. He looks at the triggers and inspir…
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we run out of past? Are we hea…
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds argues that we have indeed…
In this book the author shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. She examines how southerners the…
Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. Cox examines how southerners themselves embraced the…
Post-communist nostalgia
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