Revisiting nostalgia

Imperialism, Anticolonialism, and Imagining Home

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2148295
AutoresM Tinsley (0000-0002-2628-5783, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen43
Número13
Páginas2327-2355
Fecha de publicación2020-10-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2020.1727935
OpenAlexW3014851825
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas73

The present surge in imperial nostalgia in Britain has been widely remarked and critiqued. This article considers the relationship between imperialism and nostalgia, from their historical interconnectedness to their potential decoupling. I conceptualize nostalgia as the recognition of a gulf between past and present, the judgment that the past was somehow preferable to the present, and the longing for a "home" in which there is no longing for any other timespace. Nostalgia may engender a paralyzed longing for the past, a critical engagement with the present, or an imagined utopian future. After tracing the history of nostalgia, I provide an overview of nostalgia in social theory, including imperialist as well as anti-racist and anticolonial thought. In pursuit of nostalgia's decolonizing potential, I trace its development in Fanon's writing. Finally, I ask how an expanded understanding of nostalgia might provide insight into the logic and expression of imperial nostalgia

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