Futures Worth Preserving:Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability (Culture & Theory)
"by:Andressa Schröder (Author, Editor), Nico Völker(Author, Editor), Robert A. Winkler(Author, Editor), Tom Clucas(Author, Editor)&1more"

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Publication Date: 15 Feb. 2019

Language: English

Print Length: 272 pages

ISBN-10: 3837641228

ISBN-13: 9783837641226

Book Description

Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of 'futures worth preserving'. The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them. Drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the chapters investigate cultural assumptions about which aspects of the past deserve to be remembered and which aspects of the present should be sustained for the future. In the process, they reveal how contemporary definitions of sustainability are informed by a nostalgic yeaing for the past, and how nostalgia is motivated by a reciprocal longing to sustain the past for the future.
Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of 'futures worth preserving'. The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them. Drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the chapters investigate cultural assumptions about which aspects of the past deserve to be remembered and which aspects of the present should be sustained for the future. In the process, they reveal how contemporary definitions of sustainability are informed by a nostalgic yeaing for the past, and how nostalgia is motivated by a reciprocal longing to sustain the past for the future.