Sustainable nostalgia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Davies (0000-0001-8359-6265, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 262-268 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698010364819 |
| OpenAlex | W4247628675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 12 |
The ecological ideal of ‘sustainability’ is defensible, but controversial. It valorizes a certain way of inhabiting the world not by defining it directly, but by imagining its perpetual reproduction. I argue that what sustainability offers us is a way of being nostalgic for the future.The sustainable present will become our true home because it is the point to which the future will always recur; we look nostalgically to the future because it is there that the present will be inhabited as our home. Nostalgic imaginings are not, then, just a regulative ideal for ecological praxis. Nostalgia is called upon as an ethical principle, and the characteristics of this memory-work will affect the shape of our future
Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Praxis · Reproduction · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Law · Philosophy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Understanding Energy Innovation
Temporal regimes in heritage and urban planning
Sola(no)stalgic Suburbs
Back to the Future
Mermaids, knitted costumes and pink carbolic soap
Sustainable Nostalgia to Dystopian Future
Selling homes
Seeking the past through eyes of others
Simulating fisherfolk and performing heritage through ritual, history, and nostalgia
Imagining the good life in Stoke-on-Trent
Heritage as Landscape Manicure - Questioning Idealized Historical Landscapes as a Model for Sustainability; The Example of Toarp Ecovillage in Sweden
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |