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The Politics of Nostalgia by Simon Winlow is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Politics of Nostalgia about?

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.

Who reads The Politics of Nostalgia?

Author

Simon Winlow

Publisher

Emerald Publishing Limited

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9781837535514

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Management, Business