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.
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.
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, social theory, qualitative research methodology and utopia/nostalgia. Krystine I. Batcho is Professor of Psychology at Le Moyne College, USA. Her research focuses on nostalgia, memory, emotion, identity, coping, childhood happiness, family and news stories and psychological well-being. Janelle L. Wilson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA. She is a micro-level sociologist, whose research focuses on socialization processes, collective memory, nostalgia and the sociology of everyday life.
Inhaltsangabe
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 Enchanted Places, Invoked Pasts: Nostalgia, Dementia and Poetry
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 Enchanted Places, Invoked Pasts: Nostalgia, Dementia and Poetry
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