Alastair Bonnett

The Geography of Nostalgia (eBook, PDF)

Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

We are all familiar with the importance of 'progress' and 'change'. But what about loss? Across the world, from Beijing to Birmingham, people are talking about loss: about the loss that occurs when populations try to make new lives in new lands as well as the loss of traditions, languages and landscapes. The Geography of Nostalgia is the first study of loss as a global and local phenomenon, something that occurs on many different scales and which connects many different people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134686162
• Artikelnr.: 43592067

Autorenporträt

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Newcastle, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Nostalgic Commodities and Nostalgic Resistance 2. The
Anxieties and Adventures of Green Nostalgia: Environmentalism after
Constructionism 3. Nostalgia across Asia: The Uses of the Past and the
Dilemmas of Authenticity 4. Migrant Nostalgias: The Persistence of Loss 5.
Nostalgia for the City: Conservation, Mobility and Critique 6. Getting
Back: The Forest, Home and the Local Walk Conclusions