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This article addresses the recent attempts to integrate evolutionary history in the US national narrative. Focusing on the cultural, legal, and scientific controversy over Kennewick Man, the ancient human remains discovered in Washington state in 1996, the article explores the narrative politics of American national belonging. Through a popular historical novel on Kennewick Man's life, the article further theorizes nostalgia as a narrative tool in imagining the evolutionary origins of the nation. The article argues that nostalgia produces a temporal dynamic that bridges the gap between national history and global prehistory, and that this dynamic is reinforced through cultural ideas of genetic knowledge. At the same time, prehistoric nostalgia renders problematic ideas of ethnic difference largely invisible.

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- American History, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Indigenous Studies
- by Kathleen Loock
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- American Studies, Film Studies, Film Remakes, Nostalgia

Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time examines different encounters with the past from within the present-whether as commemoration, nostalgia, silence, ghostly haunting or combinations thereof. Taking its cue from Hannah Arendt's definition of the present as a time span lying between past and future, the author reflects on the old philosophical question of how to live the good life-not only with others who are physically with us but also with those whose presence is ghostly and liminal. While tradition may no longer command the same authority as it did in antiquity or the middle ages, individuals are by no means severed from the past. Rather, nostalgic longing for bygone times and traumatic preoccupation with painful historical events demonstrate the vitality of the past within the present. Divided into three parts, chapters examine ways in which the legacies of World War II, the Holocaust and communism have been remembered after 1945 and 1989. Maintaining a sustained reflection on the nexus of memory, modernity and time in tandem with ancient questions of responsibility for one another and the world, the volume contributes to the growing field of memory studies from a philosophical perspective. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and philosophy with interests in collective memory and heritage.

- by Siobhan Kattago
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- Ghosts, Silence, Historical Consciousness, Commemoration and Memory

This article discusses the construction of Slovenian national identity in relation to remembering the period of Socialist Yugoslavia and its dissolution in the context of contemporary Slovenian cinematography (1991-2021). The dynamic of forgetting and remembering Socialism and Yugoslav identity is presented with the help of an in-depth analysis representations, reception and contexts of production of select representative cases: Outsider (1997), the most popular Slovenian feature film of the 1990s, the mockumentary Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016) and the co-production Parada (2011). The article demonstrates that films are repositories and re-examiners of national and regional policies, trauma, and reinterpretations of history and identities. As such, they are important objects for analyzing processes of remembering and transformations of the attitudes towards Slovenian recent past.

- by Natalija Majsova and +1
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- Former Yugoslavia, Nostalgia and Memory, Slovenian Film, Postcommunist Nostalgia

Lecture 1 on Zygmunt Bauman's "Retrotopia" (2017)

- by Andreas J Önnerfors
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- Identity (Culture), Melancholy, Nostalgia, Zygmunt Bauman

Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu is translated into English with two
variants of titles: “Remembrance of Things Past”, a phrase which is taken out from
Shakespeare’s Sonnet no. 30, and “In Search of Lost Time” which is the literal translation of
the French title. However, both the titles direct the reader towards a deeper understanding of
time and memory. Shakespeare also in his sonnet laments about “lost time”; however, to
conclude that Proust’s novel is simply a lamentation for the ‘lost time’ is a bit banal and
problematic. The preoccupation with the temporal reality is a typical Proustian thought which
in Swann’s Way, the very first volume of the novel, gains a more complicated understanding
by including Bergsonian configuration of the temporal dimension along with the Einsteinian
theory of relativity

- by Amrita Bakshi
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- Henri Bergson, Marcel Proust, Memory, Nostalgia and Memory

This article proposes a phenomenological interpretation of nostalgia for communism, a collective feeling expressed typically in most Eastern European countries after the official fall of the communist regimes. While nostalgia for communism may seem like a paradoxical feeling, a sort of Stockholm syndrome at a collective level, this article proposes a different angle of interpretation: nostalgia for communism has nothing to do with communism as such, it is not essentially a political statement, nor the signal of a deep value tension between governance and the people. Rather, I propose to understand this collective feeling as the symptom of a deeper need at a national level for solidarity and ultimately about recapturing a common feeling of identity in solidarity. This hypothesis would be in line with a phenomenological approach to memory as a process of establishing shared codes by rewriting the past in such a way as to strengthen social bonds and make possible a re-imagining of a common future. Nostalgia for communism does not need to be ultimately an uncritical stance as it has been depicted, instead one could interpret it as a form of critical reflexion about our current forms of life. Instead of seeing communism nostalgia as a specific form of being stuck in the past, one could explore its potential for pointing at the things that are still not working in the current neo-liberal regime.

- by Lavinia Marin
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- Communism, Memory Studies, Nostalgia, Critical Reflection

Since the end of the twentieth century, many filmmakers, critics, and historians have lamented the state of cinema, claiming that the medium and Hollywood are suffering a profound crisis. This crisis, which has supposedly left cinema on... more

- by Eugenie Theuer
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- Film Studies, Cultural Memory, Cinema, Museology
- by David Engels
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- European Studies, Self and Identity, Narrative, Identity (Culture)
- by Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier
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- Nostalgia, Utopia, Utopia and Science Fiction, Theme Parks

Professor Włodzimierz Mędrzecki is a historian and political scientist at
the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences.
His work spanning over four decades has already won recognition, with the author receiving the award of Przegląd Wschodni for one of his earlier books. The book under review, Kaleidoscopic Borderlands. Journeys through the Eastern Lands of the Second Republic 1918–1939, won fi rst prize in the KLIO Prize of the Polish Association of History Books Publishers in November 2018. Focused on the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic, this is not the first study of the region in terms of geographical scope. However, it is an outstanding one in terms of methodological breadth. Its highly elegant, clear and accessible style makes reading this book a pleasure. Mędrzecki’s unwavering commitment to a critical approach is evident here as it has been throughout his career.

- by Aliaksandr Paharely
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- History and Memory, Modernization, Book Reviews, Interethnic Relations

The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to explore the effects of music on nostalgia, and assess whether practicing nostalgia results in a happier and more optimistic person. The purposive sample of 90 participants comprising young Irish adults aged 20-30 (n=45) and older Irish adults aged 65-75 (n=45) partook in a quasi-experimental, cross-sectional study in two experimental groups plus a third control group. Sad and happy nostalgic music triggers were administered to experimental groups and in one setting, empirically measured by a written questionnaire to examine influences on the criterion variables: nostalgia proneness, optimism behaviours and happiness levels. The analysis showed significant effects of sad music on nostalgia. No significant relationships were found between nostalgia behaviour and happiness/optimism. Significantly, this is the first nostalgia study undertaken in an Irish context, and indicates the effectiveness of sad music to trigger nostalgi...

- by Dominique Ellickson
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- Psychology, Nostalgia and Memory

Note: This essay was one of a set commissioned by Two Temple Place in 2021 to begin an ongoing project investigating the building’s history and assist cultural engagement with that history.
William Waldorf Astor engaged in projects aimed at the materialisation of history. His collection of historic properties, and the enormous volume of possessions from historical figures which he collected, created contexts that whilst owing much to historical accuracy, were also his own romantic creations. Two Temple Place shows that this was even true of his office. Was this desire to materialise his actual and literary journeys not a profound psychological one?

- by Paddy Altern
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- Art History, Architecture, Victorian Literature, Victorian cultural studies

Pre-nostalgia exists at the intersection of identity, memory, and temporality. The core difference between what is understood to be a nostalgic feeling versus a pre-nostalgic feeling comes from the individual’s motivation to act due to an... more

- by Brad Mindich
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- Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, Music, Philosophy

This article delves into the nexus of nostalgia, memory, and visuality by examining the images, objects, and events surrounding Yuan Kewen's remembrances of his father, Yuan Shikai, and their family estate in Huanshang. It also considers Zhang Boju's remembrance of his interactions with Yuan Kewen as another layer of historical memory. Phenomenological analysis of the act of remembering, especially in the work of Edward Casey, will be shown to yield rich insights when applied to China's early twentieth-century Republican culture. Surviving fragments-poems, anecdotes, photographs, and paintings-replete with sensuous and affective images of the past become the loci of memory in which these historical figures lived. Lamentation and reminiscence are also conducted through performance of historical dramas whose gestures of mourning and remembrance allowed Yuan to cultivate feelings of perpetual nostalgia through personal artistic expressions. The act of remembering became symptomatic for Yuan, Zhang, and to a large extent the entire generation of literati who experienced drastic social-political changes in the twentieth century.

Partition of India in 1947, or to be more specific the division of Punjab is one of the darkest human tragedies mankind has ever experienced. Its impact was so deep and penetrating that it continues to haunt the psyche of those uprooted migrants even though a whole generation is almost gone. The survivors and their next generations can still feel the traces of trauma in their memories. It has left a deep scar in the collective memories of migrants and even in the psyche of their next generation. As the time passes by memories also start

- by Prof. Ravinder Singh
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- Pakistan, History of Political Violence, Brotherhood, Partition literature
- by Katharine Hodgkin
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- Sociology, History Of Emotions, History of Childhood, Literary studies
- by Lisa Di Giovanni
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- Latin American Studies, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Spanish Cinema, Chile

« Nostalgie dans l'image photographique » dans Nostalgie : entre le mal-être et le désir,
actes du colloque international de l’Association européenne François Mauriac, [3 - 5 juillet
2015, Metz], Paris, Harmattan, 2016, pp. 155-164

- by Snježana Šimić
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- Philosophy, Art Theory, Photography, Contemporary Art

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic tells the story of the lives and works of Iranian poets whose personal and literary career were shaped by the Iranian revolution in 1979. By drawing on similar examples, such as Soviet Russia, the book tries to tackle some key questions: how did these poets come to be known in the literary scene? What did they write about, and what were their ideas, styles, and literary techniques? And, last but not least, what kind of relationship have they established with the ruling power on the course of the past four decades? In a detailed study, Shams tackles the life and work of ten Iranian poets whose personal and literary lives transformed and were transformed by the 1979 Revolution and the rise of the Islamic Republic, shedding light on ways in which the current ruling state in Iran uses literature and particularly poetry as a tool for ideological dissemination.

- by Fatemeh Shams
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- World Literatures, Persian Literature, Iranian Studies, Literary Theory
- by Ahmad Muzaffar
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- Marketing, Advertising, Consumer Behavior, Nostalgia and Memory

This essay aims to investigate the various semiotic roles played by islands in the memory of the Italian Fascist confino (forced confinement) of opponents of the Mussolini's regime. In particular, starting from the assumption that the little islands in the south of Italy were used by the regime as a space of exclusion for its enemies, I consider the possible encyclopaedical network related to the fascist construction and anti-fascist memory of islandness. The essay compares different forms of cultural perception of the island of confino: as a space for anti-fascist enemies and minorities, as a stereotypical space of "villeggiatura", relaxation and holiday, and as space of nostalgia.

- by Mario Panico
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- Cultural History, Memory Studies, Nostalgia, Italian fascism

Este artigo aponta três suposições para o retorno do grupo sueco Abba às prateleiras de consumo da indústria cultural e sua cristalização nesta mesma indústria nas décadas seguintes, a partir do lançamento da coletânea Gold-Greatest hits, em 1992. Nos guiaremos a partir de um fenômeno central: a mercantilização do sentimento de nostalgia, tendência mercadológica conhecida como "onda retrô". Trataremos de remontar os sentidos que nostalgia recebeu ao longo dos séculos, desde a sua catalogação como doença, até a sua consolidação como tendência de mercado. Logo depois, faremos apontamentos sobre as concepções de indústria cultural. Encerraremos este artigo com o levantamento de suposições para a reciclagem do grupo Abba enquanto produto da indústria cultural e sua configuração como engrenagem nostálgica.

This article studies hair artefacts, such as jewellery made from hair, lockets containing locks of hair, or locks contained in envelopes, poetry albums, boxes or a variety of other objects, over three centuries (1700–2000). The ambivalent position of hair in relation to different cultural codings and ritual practices is explored with reference to theoretical concepts such as memory and materiality. By turning cutoff hair into jewellery, or saving the locks of engaged couples or children, it is possible to bind people and generations together, not only symbolically but also in purely material terms. Locks of hair from deceased children create material memories and evidence of parental status, while ritually cut locks from living children nostalgically freeze a moment of their childhood. At the same time, hair removed from the body always brings into play the different cultural codings of nature/culture, rubbish/adornment, dead/alive and permanent/transient.

- by Blanka Henriksson
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- Cultural Memory, Memory and materiality, Nostalgia, Materiality

The article concentrates on the growing multilingual and multicultural diversity which Ivan Vladislavić's protagonist reads as impinging chaos. The fear of intelligibility enhances his efforts to defend the ordering standards associated with the English language. Indicating the conventional and arbitrary nature of standards indispensable for the protagonist's understanding of the world, the article traces their cultural limits. Further, it points to the fact that the protagonist must transcend his predilection for closure in order to respond to the multilingual env-iron. Finally, the article argues that, paradoxically, the discernible nostalgic undercurrent pervading South African literature and culture may facilitate the acceptance of a necessary disruptive, self-reflexive epistemology. Dwelling on the ambivalences of longing and belonging, travelling between the individual and the collective, between the present and the prospective future—the article proposes— nostalgia may become a screening device, a mediator that performs a comforting function.

- by Ewa M Kębłowska-Ławniczak
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- Multiculturalism, Nostalgia and Memory
- by Siobhan Lyons
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- Media Studies, Media History, Literature and cinema, Cinema
- by Georgs Avetisjans
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- Photography, National Identity, Modernity, Photography (Visual Studies)

Lifestyle-Ratgeber erklären uns, Analog sei ‚das neue Bio‘, Nachrichtenportale verkünden die Rückkehr der Schallplatte, in Kunstgalerien surren wieder die einst ausgesonderten Diaprojektoren und die befürchtete Einstellung der Produktion von fotochemischem Filmmaterial konnte vorerst abgewendet werden. Die in den 1990er Jahren bereits totgeglaubten analogen Medien suchen offenbar auch heute noch unsere digitale Medienkultur heim. Die Fetischisierung ‚des Analogen‘ und seiner Ästhetik ist längst im Alltag auch jener Generation angekommen, die bereits mit Computern und Mobiltelefonen sozialisiert wurde: Software-Filter verleihen Smartphone-Fotografien einen hippen Polaroid-Look und digitalen Musikproduktionen wird das Knistern von Schallplatten beigemischt. Auffällig ist dabei, dass gerade jene Aspekte, die einst als Störung oder Rauschen erlebt wurden, heute oft als Garanten eines privilegierten Wirklichkeitsbezugs aufgefasst werden. In der populären Wahrnehmung oszilliert ‚das Analoge‘ so zwischen unendlicher Exaktheit und menschlich konnotierter Imperfektion.
Um den Motivationen und Modalitäten solcher Phänomene nachzuspüren, wird zunächst die Diskurs- und Theoriegeschichte der Nostalgie selbst fokussiert. Dieses Konzept erweist sich als vielschichtiger und heuristisch ergiebiger als gemeinhin angenommen. Auf dieser Basis werden medienwissenschaftliche Debatten über die Digitalisierung beleuchtet. Dabei geht es jedoch nicht darum, das Wesen ‚des Digitalen‘ im Gegensatz zu dem ‚des Analogen‘ zu bestimmen, sondern aufzuzeigen, wie diese technische Differenz zu der binären Opposition geworden ist, als die sie heute wahrgenommen wird. Ausgehend von der Überzeugung, dass auch die populären und künstlerischen Reflexionen des Medienwandels als eigenständige Beiträge zu jenen Diskursen ernst zu nehmen sind, deren Elemente sie aufnehmen und verarbeiten, ist der letzte Teil des Buchs der Analyse paradigmatischer Beispiele gewidmet. Diese stammen u.a. aus den Bereichen Film, Fotografie, Medienkunst, digitale Remixpraktiken und populäre Musik. Durch die medienübergreifende Perspektive offenbart sich eine ganze Reihe wiederkehrender Topoi, die schon in früheren historischen Umbruchssituationen geprägt wurden. Solche mediennostalgischen Topoi offenzulegen ist das erklärte Ziel dieses Buchs.

- by Dominik Schrey
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- Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Theory, Visual Culture

La nostalgie semble être indissociable de notre époque. En Occident, un engouement nostalgique glorifiant les pratiques et les objets d’antan est omniprésent dans des domaines aussi divers que le nationalisme, les politiques patrimoniales, le consumérisme, l’industrie du tourisme, la culture populaire et les mouvements religieux ou écologiques. Ce dossier de Terrain examine les expressions contemporaines multiples de la nostalgie dans divers environnements sociaux et culturels.

- by Olivia Ange and +1
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- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory

The Author would like to point out Jacques Derrida's concept of hauntology which perfectly describes the experience of literature and contemporary world as haunted. Therefore, he follows closely the psychoanalytical concepts of phantom and crypt made by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Then the Author shows how the notion of specter was absorbed and could be use in literature studies (Esther Rashkin, Nicholas Royle, Jodey Castricano). Derrida's theory makes it possible to perceive literature not as homogenic and coherent but as open structure, inhabited by voices of Otherness.

- by Andrzej Marzec
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- Philosophy, Humanities, Death, Death Studies

Le malaise existentiel dans la (tech)nostalgie est une réflexion sur le caractère profondément nostalgique de notre époque, ses manifestations dans la culture populaire ainsi que dans l’utilisation de la technologie. Devant un présent désenchanté, post-11 septembre, et un futur anxiogène, la nostalgie semble être devenue un refuge pour l’individu. Celle-ci se sépare en deux catégories, «restauratrice » et « réflexive ». D’un côté, le nostalgique cherche à reproduire d’une manière authentique le « paradis perdu » et à modeler la réalité pour qu’elle soit à l’image du passé fantasmé. De l’autre, celui-ci est conscient de l’impossibilité de recréer le passé et cherche plutôt à se servir de cette émotion pour créer, via le remix, de nouvelles esthétiques. Devant l’instrumentalisation de la nostalgie par des intérêts politiques et commerciaux, la partie réflexive de ce mémoire propose la prise de conscience de son horreur existentielle comme la solution à ce sentiment.
MOTS-CLÉS : NOSTALGIE, TECHNOLOGIE, POSTMODERNISME, REMIX, ANALOGIQUE, NUMÉRIQUE, TERRITOIRE

- by Alexandra Tremblay
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- Creative Writing, Aesthetics, Technology, Popular Culture
- by Katarzyna Jerzak
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- Nostalgia and Memory

This article concerns the complex and sometimes contradictory phenomena of nostalgia using the example of Jews from Egypt living in France. It tries to define these foci and their meanings by examining discourses and the living presence of nostalgia at it is manifested in practices and exchanges. The role of languages is particularly examined and more specially that of arabic which its links with french makes a privileged domain for observing a nostalgic relationship to Egypt linked to the definition of jewish identity.

- by Michèle Baussant
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- Memory Studies, Egyptian jewellery, Nostalgia and Memory

‘Star Wars movies are basically silent movies, therefore the music has a very large role in carrying the story’ (George Lucas, 2002). For the music of Star Wars, John Williams employed the leitmotif as a structural, developmental and musico-dramatic device which is associated with characters, emotions, and situations on the screen. Leitmotifs, pioneered by Wagner in Der Ring des Nibelungen, differed from their representational predecessors through their developmental nature and the process by which they gradually accumulated association (Bribitzer-Stull, 2015). The influence of Wagner and his leitmotifs looms over film music, consequently the motif has been transmuted from the operatic stage to the film screen. This thesis investigates the most commonly recognized function of the leitmotif: its ability to generate associative meaning, and the significance of recall and nostalgia within that function. Motifs have their own unique referentiality within these films; yet externally, they also are important to the audience which has formed an attachment to them, years after the films were made. As a result of the rebirth of the Star Wars saga (with The Force Awakens (2015)), Williams’s motifs from the original movies now have an even greater sense of meaning than they once held.
This thesis examines the sentimental function of the leitmotif: how associativity is established, the relevance of Wagnerian and pre-Wagnerian precedents, and how Williams’s recent Star Wars scores might affect our understanding of these aspects. Williams’s new scores have yet to be thoroughly analysed, similarly the nostalgic function of leitmotifs remains a mystery. Ultimately, the aim is to answer the questions: How does musically created nostalgia influence the reading of an operatic/filmic plot, how is the reminiscence function of a leitmotif created and used, and what is the consequence on an overreliance of older thematic material?

- by Conor Power
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- Mythology, Semiotics of Music, Science Fiction Film, Richard Wagner

статья посвящена анализу феномена народной музеефикации недавнего советского прошлого – инициативному появлению тематических интернет ресурсов и «народных музеев», посвященных ностальгической репрезентации советской повседневности периода поздней оттепели и застоя. В статье используются теоретические концепции и объяснительные модели, касающиеся форм социальной памяти, нарративной правды о прошлом и ностальгии.

- by Roman Abramov
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- Collective Memory, Nostalgia, Nostalgia and Memory

« Un médecin gouvernait seul, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une région entière du Cameroun. Il tentait d’y réaliser une utopie où la médecine guiderait toute la politique et où la politique deviendrait thérapie sociale… »
L’histoire du docteur David ressemble à un rêve exaucé : celui d’un monde réinventé par les médecins. Elle rappelle que les colonies furent, pour les hérauts de la santé publique, des espaces d’exception affranchis des contraintes de la politique ordinaire, propices aux expériences grandeur nature. Celles de cet officier des Troupes coloniales furent totales. Les autorités françaises les présentèrent comme des succès. Les archives et les témoignages en livrent une image plus troublante.
Guillaume Lachenal retrace ici le destin d’une utopie, en entrecroisant l’itinéraire de son maître d’œuvre et le récit captivant d’une enquête de terrain, qui l’a conduit de l’Afrique aux îles du Pacifique. Dans les lieux et les paysages marqués par les aventures impériales du docteur David, dans la végétation, les objets, les chansons, les mémoires ou les ruines, il découvre que cette histoire se conjugue au présent. C’est une histoire toujours vive, faite de promesses impossibles, de violence, de rêves de grandeur, de désir d’échec et de rendez-vous manqués, où l’attente du futur s’abîme dans la comédie tragique du pouvoir.

- by Guillaume Lachenal
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- African Studies, History of Medicine, Utopian Studies, Global Health

Early academic article on McCartney's songs during/after the Beatles. This focuses on themes of time and nostalgia alongside musical innovation in a selection of McCartney songs, 1963-2001. Some of my later publications on McCartney (and... more

- by James McGrath
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- Popular Music, Songwriting, Theodor Adorno, Metaphysics of Time

Literally named light or torch, The Tomoshibi captures a prevailing concept in contemporary Japan that establishes this culture of longing for a past, to retrace steps back to a more distant time in hopes of discovering the country’s roots, and reminiscing the days of old. In this small bar nostalgia permeates throughout, placing the patron in a trance of calmness; one where childhood dreams, fairy tales, and miracles abound. The Tomoshibi is almost invisible in the commercial district of Tokyo, yet its patrons and staff respect it and treat it like a sanctuary.

Bringing together scholarly discussions on heritage and state violence, this article analyzes the multilayered structure of dispossession in contemporary Turkey. Through a combination of archival and ethnographic material, it documents the journey of the Fabiato Mansion situated in Büyükada, Istanbul becoming first a ruin, then a state property, later a culture house run by the Touring Automobile Company, and now the local courthouse. It argues that, although heritage and waste have been conceptualized in opposition to one another, the case of the Fabiato Mansion reveals that ruins and heritage sites are deeply connected through practices of dispossession. Conceptualizing the layered modalities of dispossession that led to the transformation of the Fabiato Mansion into the Büyükada Culture House, it illustrates the experience of the dispossession of sense of belonging through the life story of Aurora Fabiato. Then, it analyzes the abandonment of the mansion as part of the process of elimination of possible inheritors and it illustrates how the Mansion's dilapidation was operationalized in the politics of redistribution. Focusing on Touring Company's practices of preservation and repurposing it puts forward that by obscuring property relationships, the Büyükada Culture House generates a nostalgic political ideology that operates as way to avoid reckoning the violent past. While civilizational discourses on culture facilitated justifications of contested regimes of inheritance, they could not successfully end the mansion's agonizing presence between heritagization and disinvestment.