Nostalgia-A Polemic

Stewart, Kathleen

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“…These forms of nostalgia can be viewed as a 'sentimental' and 'romanticized' (Goulding 199b) depiction of history at the expense of cleansing the past, or what Stewart (1988) refers to as 'naturalization' of a history, which is depleted of its dark sides under the skin of 'handsome' and 'well-kept' environments. The Riverside Museum seems to distance itself from 'manipulating' (Hewison 1987, in Goulding 1999b history.…”

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“…We particularly focus on the relevance of nostalgia to the ongoing process of cultural 'reflexivity' (Giddens 1990) in contemporary society. We argue that for cultural consumers, nostalgia is not simply an aesthetic or emotional tour of the past made readily available to them via the objects of (experiential) consumption; rather, as a 'cultural practice' (Stewart 1988), nostalgia is a process of 'self-exploration' (Batcho et al 2008) and 'sense-making' (Brown and Humphreys 2002) through juxtaposing past, present, and future. The museum-based historical representations, we argue, have the power to act as 'cultural referents' (Boym 2001) in individuals' navigation of self and identity.…”

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Nostalgia, reflexivity, and the narratives of self: reflections on Devine's “Removing the rough edges?”

Jafari

Taheri

2013

Consumption Markets & Culture

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/38379/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. Abstract: This paper offers some theoretical insights on Devine's account of the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. It elaborates on three interrelated themes the authors have derived from Devine's report: 1) how historical representations arouse nostalgic sensations and sensibilities in museum visitors 2) the role of narratives in visitors' development of their nostalgic experiences 3) the importance of engagement to the creation of such nostalgic experiences. The paper contributes to the existing literature on nostalgia, experiential consumption, and the museum experience literature by establishing a relationship between nostalgia, reflexivity, and individuals' narratives of self in the conditions of (post/late/high) modernity.

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Nostalgia, reflexivity, and the narratives of self: reflections on Devine's “Removing the rough edges?”

Jafari

Taheri

2013

Consumption Markets & Culture

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“…In Australia, people used seaside colors and patterns in the shack's painted walls; in France, Breton themes predominated, and in Russia, there was a presence of wood in the dacha. The distinction between second and main homes allows a comparison to broader issues of nostalgia in popular culture (Stewart 1988).…”

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“…A great deal of this nostalgia, however, derives from non-physical elements (Buyandelgeriyn 2008;Cavanaugh 2004;Stewart 1988) or from the modification in meaning of everyday objects (Berdahl 2001;Stewart 1988), both trends which I will touch on in describing my research. In this chapter, I will explore several distinctive aspects of nostalgia, in particular a desire for relationships that mirror those of the past, food practices that are no longer an everyday occurrence at main homes, traditional home aesthetics and technology decisions, traditional notions of space use, and work practices of second homes.…”

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Identity, Nostalgia and Leisure: Technology Use in Second Homes

Bourdonnec

2000

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This thesis, based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in the US, Russia, France and Australia, focuses on technology use in second homes and its implications for technology design. I highlight the unexpectedly strong sense of nostalgia, for place as well as for richer relationships, felt in second homes around the world, and the ways in which second home residents use technology to shape space and behavior to reinforce this link to an imagined past. I show that the transition between main and second homes, with its rituals of preparation and transition between physical locations, allows residents to assume different identities in the two locations. These identities are based on location rather than role, and their second home identities allow them to showcase a part of themselves which does not flourish in the city. Lastly, I articulate the ways in which technology's logic is shaped by work environments, and how this logic does not always mesh well with the -messiness‖ of home lives. I further show that the choices of technology placement and acceptance in the home are a function of both how a technology is perceived (as aligned with work or leisure, for example) and of the behaviors residents value in the home, and an anthropologically informed understanding of these behaviors can, and should, influence product design choices.ii Dedication For Ron, who put up with -the manifesto.‖ Et pour mes parents, qui y ont toujours cru.iii Acknowledgements

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“…Por lo tanto, se busca aquí superar una concepción conservadora de la nostalgia para pensarla como fenómeno socio-cultural anclado en el presente. Se aborda la nostalgia como discurso y práctica socio-cultural (Stewart, 1988), partiendo de la hipótesis de que su experimentación respecto de un espacio social o físico se traduce en -y revela-prácticas y conductas sociales en la ciudad. Es por eso que no solamente se puede interrogar las funciones y los sentidos sociales de la nostalgia, sino también sus inscripciones espaciales.…”

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La nostalgia en la producción urbana: La defensa de barrios en Santiago de Chile

Colin

2017

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ResumenEn los últimos años, la ciudad neoliberal se ha transformado en un tema central en los estudios urbanos. Uno de los aspectos analizado es la extensión de la presión inmobiliaria acompañada por la renovación urbana que consiste en destruir y reconstruir de manera permanente la ciudad. Sin embargo, son escasos los estudios que se interesan en la manera en que esos procesos son vividos y percibidos en la cotidianidad por sus habitantes, para desde ahí establecer un punto de vista crítico. Partiendo de esta constatación, el artículo propone interrogar la nostalgia gatillada por los cambios urbanos a partir del estudio de la movilización de habitantes contra los proyectos inmobiliarios y por la defensa de su barrio en Santiago Centro (Chile). El artículo se basa en un trabajo de campo de corte etnográfico realizado en 2014 y 2015 con grupos de habitantes involucrados en la defensa y la revalorización patrimonial del barrio Matta Sur. Con este trabajo se busca analizar y cuestionar la presencia y la materialización de la nostalgia en el espacio y sus usos y funciones socio-culturales actuales en la producción de la ciudad. IntroducciónEn América Latina, en los últimos años, gran parte de la literatura sobre lo urbano se ha interesado en las formas socio-espaciales de la ciudad neoliberal. Concepto utilizado para interrogar la ciudad contemporánea, hace referencia a las políticas urbanas que se piensan y se aplican a escalas múltiples desde lo local hasta lo global (Hidalgo y Janoschka, 2014) y que se basan, por un lado, en la desregulación de los mercados y el retiro del Estado y, por otro lado, en la financiación de la economía, la especulación y la plusvalía urbana (Rodríguez y Rodríguez, 2009). En Chile, uno de los aspectos que ha sido estudiado es la extensión y el fortalecimiento de la presión inmobiliaria, acompañada por la liberalización del mercado del suelo (Mattos, 2002(Mattos, y 2010López, Gasic y Meza, 2012). Eso se traduce generalmente en la renovación urbana, que consiste en destruir y reconstruir de manera permanente la ciudad y que conduce muchas veces a una densificación del tejido urbano y a una verticalización de la ciudad, como por ejemplo en Santiago Centro desde los años 1990 (Hidalgo, 2010;Contreras, 2011). Para analizar los procesos de la renovación urbana como dimensión constituyente de la ciudad neoliberal (Harvey, 1990), los autores privilegian enfoques institucionales y/o estructuralistas. No obstante, escasos son los análisis que se interesan en la forma en la cual estas evoluciones son vividas y percibidas por sus habitantes.Además, los cambios no son solamente materiales, sino que también involucran los estilos de vida y las costumbres. Por lo tanto, siguiendo la línea de pensamiento de Lefebvre (1974), según la cual la producción del espacio se fundaría también en sus dimensiones vividas y percibidas, el artículo enfatiza en la manera en que los habitantes viven, piensan y se piensan en el cambio socio-espacial permanente de la ciudad neoliberal.Para abordar esta problemática...

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Nostalgia-A Polemic

Cited by 243 publications

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Nostalgia, reflexivity, and the narratives of self: reflections on Devine's “Removing the rough edges?”

Nostalgia, reflexivity, and the narratives of self: reflections on Devine's “Removing the rough edges?”

Identity, Nostalgia and Leisure: Technology Use in Second Homes

La nostalgia en la producción urbana: La defensa de barrios en Santiago de Chile

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