Experiences of Nostalgia: Politics, Media, Futures (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

This book is an original and provoking international collection of theoretical, analytical, and situated essays from different disciplinary and cultural perspectives that engage critically with nostalgia as home- and timesickness in troubled times. By bringing together media, memory, and nostalgia studies, the volume focuses on the functional relationship between media and nostalgia placing emphasis on current urgencies such as climate change, social inequities, new and old forms of media extractivism, and political polarization. Ranging from investigations into online communities, media art and archaeology, media industries and publics to political communication, vintage media collectors, and archives of the margins, the authors engage with qualitative methodologies, and unsuspected viewpoints. To tackle the question of nostalgic (be)longings as hybrid experiences of reinventing the past, present, and future, the volume comes forth with nuanced conceptualizations such as tropical, disguised or speculative nostalgia and works with scrutiny the repercussions of political, social, cultural, and technological change on our current experiences of loss, grief, and hope.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3032389925
• ISBN13: 9783032389923
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan