1st Edition
Exploring Nostalgia Empirical Studies of Contemporary Experiences and Practices
Introduction: Living in times of nostalgia: empirical studies of contemporary experiences and practices
Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Krystine I. Batcho and Janelle L. Wilson
1 Why be nostalgic about work? Exploring the paradoxes of workplace attachment and loss
Tim Strangleman
2 Conscious nostalgia: reflections on historical craft demonstrations
Christopher W. Gibson and Joy Brenneman
3 Neo-craft and nostalgia
Alessandro Gandini
4 Restorative and reflective nostalgia and belonging in retirement migration: British women living in Spain
Anya Ahmed
5 Nostalgia in ‘Sin City’: exploring nostalgic ambivalences among expats in Pattaya
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
6 Nostalgias and belongings in the neoliberal context: a Chilean case
Clément Didier Colin
7 Ostalgie: nostalgia as identity politics
Aline Sierp and Liz Emery
8 The dark side of longing: how nostalgia and prostalgia may be used to further extremist ideologies
Christine Reyna, Angel Armenta, Miguel Vazquez, and Kevin McAweeney
9 Enchanted places, invoked pasts: nostalgia, dementia and poetry
Oddgeir Synnes
10 Cherished memories: nostalgia as a source of well-being
Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, and Evan Weingarten
11 Even nostalgia scholars are nostalgic: reflections on and experiences with personal nostalgia
Krystine I. Batcho, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Janelle L. Wilson
Afterword: reflections on nostalgia in research and life: applications and implications
Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Krystine I. Batcho and Janelle L. Wilson
Biography
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, social theory, qualitative research methodology and utopia/nostalgia.
Krystine I. Batcho is Professor of Psychology at Le Moyne College, USA. Her research focuses on nostalgia, memory, emotion, identity, coping, childhood happiness, family and news stories and psychological well-being.
Janelle L. Wilson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA. She is a micro-level sociologist, whose research focuses on socialization processes, collective memory, nostalgia and the sociology of everyday life.
