Exploring Nostalgia (eBook, ePUB)

Empirical Studies of Contemporary Experiences and Practices
Redaktion: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid; Wilson, Janelle L.; Batcho, Krystine I.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040755686
• Artikelnr.: 75625959

Autorenporträt

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