1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

Edited By Tobias Becker, Dylan Trigg Copyright 2025
592 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

592 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

592 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings together an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers to survey the... Read more

1. Introduction

Tobias Becker and Dylan Trigg

Part One: Disciplines

2. Philosophy and Nostalgia

Dylan Trigg

3. Sociology and Nostalgia

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

4. History and Nostalgia

Tobias Becker

5. Psychology and Nostalgia

Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut

6. Literature and Nostalgia

Niklas Salmose and Eric Sandberg

7. Semiotics and Nostalgia

Mario Panico

8. Music and Nostalgia

Lola San Martin Arbide

9. Heritage Studies and Nostalgia

Svenja Hönig

10. Media Studies and Nostalgia

Mirjam Kappes and Manuel Menke

Part Two: Concepts

11. The Metaphysics of Nostalgia

Anja Berninger

12. Nostalgia and Homesickness

Susan J. Matt

13. Nostalgia and Time

Emily Hughes

14. Nostalgia and Affect

Michael D. Dwyer

15. Nostalgia and Wellbeing

Krystine Batcho

16. Nostalgia and Autobiographical Memory

Leonardo Massantini

17.  Nostalgia and Childhood

Dylan Trigg

18. Nostalgia, Ageing and Older Way

Jessica Stanier

19. Hauntology

Grafton Tanner

20. Anthropocene Nostalgia

Niklas Salmose and Anna Ishchenko

21. Solastalgia

Katharina Niemeyer and Magali Uhl

Part Three: History and Politics

22. Medieval Nostalgia

Theo B. Lap

23. Indigenous Nostalgia

Martin Deuerlein

24. Afro-Nostalgia

Badia Ahad

25. White Supremacy and Nostalgia

Jesús Luzardo

26. Nostalgia and Populism

Ezgi Elçi

27. Post-Yugoslav Nostalgias

Tatjana Rosić Ilić and Goran Lazičić

28. Industrial Nostalgia and Working-Class Identity

Alfred Archer and Leonie Smith

29. Nostalgia and Feminism

Leyla Sophie Gleissner

30. Queer Nostalgia

Gilad Padva

31. Nostalgia Toward the Future

Lucia Santa Cruz

Part Four: Spaces, Materiality and Practices

32. Topology of Nostalgia

Stefan W. Schmidt

33. Nostalgia and Regionalism

Adam Ochonicky

34. Old South Plantation Nostalgia

David Anderson

35. Nostalgia and Ruins

Zoltán Somhegyi

36. Appliance Nostalgia

Rachele Dini

37. Wistful Objects

Robert Seddon

38. Keepsakes

Mark Windsor

Part Five: Media and Genre

39. Analogue Nostalgia

Dominik Schrey

40. Digital Nostalgias

Katharina Niemeyer

41. The Functions of Contemporary Mediated Nostalgia

Ryan Lizardi

42. Reboots and Revivals

Kathleen Loock

43. Diasporic Nostalgia in Indian Cinema

Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh

44. Retro Gaming

Jacob Birken

45. Nostalgia in Comics and Graphic Novels

Giorgio Busi Rizzi

Biography

Tobias Becker is a Visiting Professor of Modern History at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published widely on the history of popular culture and nostalgia. His most recent books include Popular Culture in Western Europe since 1800: A Student‘s Guide (2023) and Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia (2023).

Dylan Trigg is an Austrian Science Fund Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. He works on phenomenology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of emotion. Recent books include Topophobia: a Phenomenology of Anxiety (2016) and the edited collection Atmospheres and Shared Emotions (2022).