Revisiting nostalgia: imperialism, anticolonialism, and imagining home

Tinsley, Meghan

doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1727935

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“…Joe PL Davidson https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1800-3771 Notes 1. It is worth noting here that nostalgia, like utopia, is also entwined with relations of racial and colonial power, an issue not considered by Bauman (see Ravela, 2020;Tinsley, 2020). 2.…”

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“…On this perspective, social theoretical concepts need to be rethought to draw out their latent connection to histories of colonial power and racial domination (Bhambra, 2014; Go, 2016). If other key concepts of modernity, from citizenship (Bhambra, 2015) to nostalgia (Tinsley, 2020), have been marked by these histories, why not utopia? More specifically, I am not the first to notice the lacuna regarding race in the literature on the sociology of utopia.…”

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The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of Liberation

Davidson

2022

Sociology

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This article focuses on the relationship between the sociology of utopia and Black visions of liberation. Influential figures from Karl Mannheim to Ruth Levitas have effectively demonstrated the value of a utopian perspective for sociology. However, the African American tradition of utopianism has been largely overlooked in this literature. I argue that the Black standpoint forces a rethinking of the sociological understanding of utopia. More specifically, while most sociologists of utopia straightforwardly associate the desire for a better world with the future, the Black tradition proposes a more expansive understanding of utopia’s temporality. Building on visions of new worlds advanced by WEB Du Bois and the movement for reparations for slavery, I suggest that Black utopia involves a glance backwards to the past, such that the image of a better future is accompanied by the memory of the catastrophe of slavery.

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The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of Liberation

Davidson

2022

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“…As a response to identity disturbance or discontinuity, nostalgia can be used as the means at our disposal for holding on to, reaffirming, and reconstructing our identities through, for example, searching for familiarity and certainty in the past (Davis, 1977(Davis, , 1979. In this sense, nostalgia is less about place than about time: in particular, a perceived or imagined "golden age" in which the gulf between past and present can be bridged, one's desired self can be accommodated, and there is no longing for any other time-space (Tinsley, 2020).…”

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“…That is, it is an age, or timespace, in which heterosexual, white, Christian men had a monopoly on social and political power, and in which the now-lost moral virtues and religious values that are essential to the "authentic Americanness" should be revived and recaptured (Al-Ghazzi, 2021;Braunstein, 2021;Murphy, 2009). Such a singular and essentialist articulation of Americanness through a distorted past became a base for Trump to mobilize and consolidate power against his political opponents (Gul, 2021;Tinsley, 2020Tinsley, : 2354.…”

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Nostalgia in Times of Uncertainty: (Re)articulations of the Past, Present, and Future of Globalization

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2023

Globalization: Past, Present, Future

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Taking the United Kingdom, the United States, and China as cases, this chapter explores the transnational connections of the rhetoric of nostalgia—or, more precisely, what Roland Robertson (1990) calls “willful nostalgia”—in the current phase of globalization. Analyzing these cases through a lens of global studies enables an understanding of nostalgia both as a response to the paradoxes—such as between the compressed world and the intensified distinctions of clusters of nations, between integration and retreat, and between globalization and deglobalization, generated by the globalization processes—and as a multifaceted construct associated with geotemporality, affect, politics, culture, and history. I contend that the divergent rhetoric of nostalgia reflects these countries’ different empirical stages and experiences of globalization and (re)articulations of the places to which they aspire in the future world. While the willful nostalgia under discussion has revealed the continuing tensions among nation-states, citizens, international relations, and humanity in the context of accelerated global capitalism, the conflictual and mutually constitutive relationship between globalization and nostalgia are also important to consider.

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“…This can at times lead to backwardlooking approaches or becoming stuck in the past rather than moving forwards, as memory is re-negotiated retrospectively and/or prospectively, drawing from nostalgic and utopic visions (or versions) of the past and future. As Meghan Tinsley notes, "future-nostalgia takes the gulf between past and present as evidence that society can be transformed, and imagines a new and utopian society" (Tinsley, 2020(Tinsley, : 2329, which contains both potentialities and pitfalls in terms of (tinted or dashed) hope.…”

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