The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

Tobias Becker, Dylan Trigg

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Routledge
21 August 2024

Historiography; Social & cultural history; Social & political philosophy; Sociology; Nationalism

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly.

Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings together an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers to survey the current landscape and identify common trends, achievements and gaps in existing literature. Comprising 45 chapters, the volume covers the following topics:

Disciplinary perspectives of nostalgias including philosophy, history, literature, and psychology. Conceptual aspects of nostalgia including homesickness, temporality, affectivity, and memory. Historical and political dimensions such as afro-nostalgia, populism, feminism, and queer nostalgia. Spatial and material aspects of nostalgia including ruins, regionalism, and objects. Media related nostalgia such as analogue and digital nostalgia, reboots, revivals, gaming, and graphic novels.

Essential reading for students and researchers working in nostalgia studies, this book will also be beneficial to related disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, geography, history, and literature; cultural, media, heritage, museum and film studies courses; and more generally for readers interested in how the past is represented and used in the present.

Edited by: Tobias Becker, Dylan Trigg
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032429205
ISBN 10: 1032429208
Pages: 562
Publication Date: 21 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Introduction Part One: Disciplines 2. Philosophy and Nostalgia 3. Sociology and Nostalgia 4. History and Nostalgia 5. Psychology and Nostalgia: A Primer on Experimental Nostalgia Inductions 6. Literature and Nostalgia 7. Semiotics and Nostalgia 8. Music and Nostalgia 9. Heritage Studies and Nostalgia 10. Media Studies and Nostalgia Part Two: Concepts 11. The Metaphysics of Nostalgia 12. Nostalgia and Homesickness 13. Nostalgia and Time 14. Nostalgia and Affect 15. Nostalgia and Wellbeing 16. Nostalgia and Autobiographical Memory 17. Nostalgia and Childhood 18. Nostalgia, Ageing and Older Age 19. Hauntology 20. Anthropocene Nostalgia 21. Solastalgia Part Three: History and Politics 22. Medieval Nostalgia 23. Indigenous Nostalgia 24. Afro-Nostalgia 25. White Supremacy and Nostalgia 26. Nostalgia and Populism 27. Post-Yugoslav Nostalgias 28. Industrial Nostalgia and Working-Class Identity 29. Nostalgia and Feminism 30. Queer Nostalgia 31. Nostalgia Toward the Future Part Four: Spaces, Materiality and Practices 32. Topology of Nostalgia 33. Nostalgia and Regionalism 34. Old South Plantation Nostalgia 35. Nostalgia and Ruins 36. Appliance Nostalgia 37. Wistful Objects 38. Keepsakes Part Five: Media and Genre 39. Analogue Nostalgia 40. Digital Nostalgias 41. The Functions of Contemporary Mediated Nostalgia 42. Reboots and Revivals 43. Diasporic Nostalgia in Indian Cinema 44. Retro Gaming 45. Nostalgia in Comics and Graphic Novels

Tobias Becker is a Visiting Professor of Modern History at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published widely on the history of popular culture and nostalgia. His most recent books include Popular Culture in Western Europe since 1800: A Student‘s Guide (2023) and Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia (2023). Dylan Trigg is an Austrian Science Fund Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy. He works on phenomenology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of emotion. Recent books include Topophobia: a Phenomenology of Anxiety (2016) and the edited collection Atmospheres and Shared Emotions (2022).