Closing Time: Deindustrialization and Nostalgia in Contemporary France

Clarke, Jackie

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“…Nostalgia's juxtaposition with progress (Boym, 2001; Turner, 1987) ties the socio‐economic status of the losers of modernisation to their receptiveness for nostalgia and, thus, to arguments for restoring national values and idealized images of a social order now foregone (cf. Clarke, 2015). For those left behind, social change is understood as happening ‘too fast’ (Rouban, 2016) and moving in the wrong direction.…”

Section: Nostalgia As a Spatio‐temporal Phenomenonmentioning

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The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

Rogenhofer

Abts

Klein

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British Journal of Sociology

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This article untangles competing conceptualisations of nostalgia and identifies a specific form of collective‐restorative nostalgia as politically significant. We argue that the link between resentment and this type of nostalgia emerges from their joint critique of the socio‐political realities of the present. Nostalgia provides spatial and temporal orientations for a group's experiences of resentment through highly selective recollections of the heartland and an idealised golden age. We hypothesize that nostalgia leverages the heartland and the golden age to formulate claims for recognition and restored status on behalf of those who feel left behind by late modernity. Next, the article uses structural equation modelling and the 2019 Belgian National Election Study to reveal how resentment (consisting of ontological insecurity, group relative deprivation, and powerlessness) mediates between structural characteristics and nostalgia. Our findings suggest that each component of resentment individually contributes to explaining the nostalgia of less educated and economically deprived individuals.

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Section: Nostalgia As a Spatio‐temporal Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

Rogenhofer

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Klein

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British Journal of Sociology

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“…The unlived industrial past mediates experiential contexts of employment (McDowell, 2003 ; Nixon, 2009 ; Walkerdine and Jiménez, 2012 ; Bennett, 2015b ), education and school (Bright, 2012 ; Bathmaker et al, 2013 ; Ward, 2014 ), place (Nayak, 2003 , 2006 ; Bright, 2016 ), and identity (Rhodes, 2013 ). A focus of the literature has been on how valued male occupational identities remain rooted in industrial forms of labor (High, 2003 ; MacKenzie et al, 2006 ; Walkerdine, 2010 ; Ward, 2014 ; Clarke, 2015 , 2017 ). With labor market shifts from industrial work to service-based employment “industrial citizenship” has been fractured and men from industrial families struggle to form coherent senses of identity and belonging around what are considered locally to be feminine jobs (Strangleman, 2015 ).…”

Section: Affective-temporal Processes Deindustrialization and Deindustrialized Generationsmentioning

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After Coal: Affective-Temporal Processes of Belonging and Alienation in the Deindustrializing Nottinghamshire Coalfield, UK

Emery

2020

Front. Sociol.

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This article advances conceptualizations of belonging and alienation among deindustrializing people toward (i) pluralistic temporal and (ii) affective processes. The focus is on belonging and alienation among a deindustrialized generation in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, UK, exploring how various affective-temporal processes mediate capacities, claims, and senses of belonging and alienation. Extant studies suggest that multiple temporal processes constitute deindustrialized places, particularly intergenerational transmissions, declarative memory, and place-histories. Recent work has explored the affective, emotional, and embodied dynamics of these temporal processes. While these literatures are insightful in locating affective and temporal processes of belonging, studies do not have much to say on the relational dynamics of affective-temporal processes in everyday becoming lives and experiences of deindustrializing places. The significance of foregrounding multiple affective-temporal processes of belonging and alienation is because of their relational nature. Advancing understandings of belonging is critical as a coherent sense of belonging is fundamental for individual and social well-being, and the loss of belonging, namely, alienation, informs how former industrial places are lived. Based on autoethnographic, interview and Observant Participation research with participants born between 1984 and 1994, I use ethnographic vignettes to delineate multiple relating affective-temporal processes of belonging and alienation of a generation that came after coal. The first vignette concerns the embodied and affective relationalities of intergenerational transmission and becoming in a deindustrialized world through the lens of masculinity, place and belonging. The second vignette examines nostalgic and traumatic shared declarative memories contingent of living through and with deindustrialization. The third vignette looks at intersections of place histories, silenced memory and local pride and shame, drawing out the significance of space and place to class-based experiences. Weaved through the stories are thematic threads of class, place, alienation, belonging, and temporality. Bringing these threads together, the paper then discusses the relationalities between issues covered, emphasizing the mutual contingencies between affective-temporal processes of belonging and alienation. I end by calling for shared affective-temporal processes of belonging and alienation to form the basis of a renewed solidarity, attenuation of alienation and a means to belong.

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“…Consequently, working‐class youth across genders have been left “adrift from “illegitimate” histories that are their legitimate “heritage” and, at the same time, subject to the traumatic affective legacy of those same histories” (Bright, , p. 316; see also Bright, ). Numerous studies have argued that legacies of industrial worker identities have retained meanings, continuing to form much of the basis of identity formations, gendered projections of societal purpose, and gendered performances (Clarke, ; High, ; MacKenzie et al, ; Walkerdine, ).…”

Section: Deindustrialization: Themes Concerns and Agendasmentioning

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“…Finally, and both connected to the political imperative of working‐class historical geographies, as well as returning to the debates outlined in the first section, intersectional historical geographies of deindustrialization are required which expand the focus of studies beyond the experiences of white male former industrial workers. Although notable examples exist (see Clarke, ), working‐class “women in the rapidly deindustrializing clothing, textile and electrical industries have received far less scholarly or public attention” (High, , p. 1002; see also McDowell, ). Potential studies need not necessarily focus solely on women's job losses.…”

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“…Although notable examples exist (see Clarke, 2015), working-class "women in the rapidly deindustrializing clothing, textile and electrical industries have received far less scholarly or public attention" (High, 2013b(High, , p. 1002; see also McDowell, 2008). Potential studies need not necessarily focus solely on women's job losses.…”

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Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Emery

2018

Geography Compass

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Sections of the post‐industrial working‐class have made a notable return to media and political discourses in the context of the rise of populism across Europe and the United States. These narratives, which exclude women and BAME working‐class people, suggests the (white, male) working‐class are angry and resentful of being left behind by increasingly globalized political economies, nostalgic for the industrial ordering of work, home, and community. It seems that the political and media establishment are, selectively, understanding what has long been realized by researchers of deindustrialization. In the first, this paper surveys and critiques recent discourses on the post‐industrial working‐classes. The paper then traces the development of industrial ruination as an interdisciplinary area of academic focus, highlighting the themes of memory and temporal factors that have come to dominate the literature. The next section reviews contestations surrounding the affordances of landscapes and industrial ruins for the analysis of memory and history. Finally, the paper proposes interrelated ways to advance future study which historical–cultural geographers are well placed to carry forward. Here, I call for greater attention toward the affective and embodied dimensions of classed experience and the intersectionalities of race and gender in working‐class subjectivities. Further, I suggest there is an imperative to a deeper understanding of constitutive “affective” histories to mediate enduring social inequalities and their political and socially divisive mobilizations.

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Closing Time: Deindustrialization and Nostalgia in Contemporary France

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

After Coal: Affective-Temporal Processes of Belonging and Alienation in the Deindustrializing Nottinghamshire Coalfield, UK

Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

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