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The Politics of Nostalgia: Class, Rootlessness and Decline

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Availability:In StockContributor:Simon WinlowSeries:SocietynowPublish date:02/18/25Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Emerald Publishing LimitedISBN-13:9781837535514ISBN-10:1837535515UPC:9781837535514Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Political Ideologies, Social Classes & Economic DisparitySize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC0C8AG5BK

For ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of living continue to fall. Our institutions seem redundant, our cities dilapidated and dysfunctional. Electoral systems seem incapable of driving positive change. What is there to be optimistic about?

A multiplicity of escalating pressures and a growing fear of the future encourage people to look to the past to identify something positive, and the bittersweet sting of nostalgia now plays a key role in working-class politics and community life. But how should we understand our increasingly common retreat into nostalgia?

In this sweeping ethnography, Simon Winlow explores our common desire to take refuge in the past, and what it means for our political future.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Emerald Publishing LimitedISBN-13:9781837535514ISBN-10:1837535515UPC:9781837535514Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Political Ideologies, Social Classes & Economic DisparitySize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC0C8AG5BK

Simon Winlow is Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. An internationally recognized criminologist and sociologist, he is one of the left's most original thinkers and a key commentator on British politics and culture.


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