The Politics of Nostalgia
Class, Rootlessness and Decline
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2025
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-83753-551-4 (ISBN)
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Escalating pressures and growing fear of the future encourage people to look to the past to identify something positive, and nostalgia plays a key role in working-class politics and community life. Simon Winlow explores our common desire to take refuge in the past, and what it means for our political future.
For ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of living continue to fall. Our institutions seem redundant, our cities dilapidated and dysfunctional. Electoral systems seem incapable of driving positive change. What is there to be optimistic about?
A multiplicity of escalating pressures and a growing fear of the future encourage people to look to the past to identify something positive, and the bittersweet sting of nostalgia now plays a key role in working-class politics and community life. But how should we understand our increasingly common retreat into nostalgia?
In this sweeping ethnography, Simon Winlow explores our common desire to take refuge in the past, and what it means for our political future.
For ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of living continue to fall. Our institutions seem redundant, our cities dilapidated and dysfunctional. Electoral systems seem incapable of driving positive change. What is there to be optimistic about?
A multiplicity of escalating pressures and a growing fear of the future encourage people to look to the past to identify something positive, and the bittersweet sting of nostalgia now plays a key role in working-class politics and community life. But how should we understand our increasingly common retreat into nostalgia?
In this sweeping ethnography, Simon Winlow explores our common desire to take refuge in the past, and what it means for our political future.
Simon Winlow is Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. An internationally recognized criminologist and sociologist, he is one of the left’s most original thinkers and a key commentator on British politics and culture.
Introduction: Falling
Chapter 1. The New Politics of Nostalgia
Chapter 2. Fearing the Future
Chapter 3. Lost Roots
Chapter 4. Beyond Modernism
Chapter 5. Permanent Reform
Chapter 6. Intimations of Post-Sociality
Chapter 7. Towards a Better Future
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SocietyNow |
| Verlagsort | Bingley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83753-551-5 / 1837535515 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83753-551-4 / 9781837535514 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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