Anglo Nostalgia
The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19986068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edoardo Campanella, Marta Dassù |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Anglo Nostalgia (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190068936.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4253975353 |
| Open Library | OL34665487M |
| ISBN | 9780190068936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump hopes to ‘make America great again’, Xi Jinping calls for a ‘great rejuvenation of the Chinese people’, and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. But it is Brexit, with its idealization of a bygone era of full sovereignty, that epitomizes nostalgic nationalism in its purest form. Despite its romantic flavor, nostalgia is a malaise—a combination of paranoia and melancholy that idealizes the past, while denigrating the present. This epidemic of mythicizing national history is shaping politics in risky ways, fueled by ageing populations, shifts in the global order, and technological disruption. When deployed in the political debate, collective nostalgia is used as an emotional weapon, capable of mobilizing a nation towards illusory goals. Drawing on psychology, political science, history and popular culture, Anglo Nostalgia analyses the rapid spread of this global phenomenon, before focusing on Brexit as a case study. With the detachment of informed outsiders, Campanella and Dassù expose nostalgia’s great danger: the oversimplification of reality, leading to unprecedented political miscalculations and rising geopolitical tensions
Aesthetics · Art · Brexit · Epistemology · European union · Geopolitics · Idealization · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Global Energy Security and Policy · History · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · British · British National characteristics · Great britain · National characteristics · National characteristics, british · Nostalgia · Political aspects · politics and government
The Art of Brexit
Musicology and Decolonial Analysis in the Age of Brexit
Desiring Walls
British Borders and/in East Africa
The Dark Side of Inspirational Pasts
Distrusting ‘them’ and creating ‘us’
Un-cancelling the future
Brexit and the trap of history
After Brexit
America and the special relationship
Powellite nostalgia and racialised nationalist narratives
The Future of Nostalgia
Introduction
Those were the days
Double devaluations
The neo‐nationalist ascendency
Emotions in Politics
Illiberal Jewish-Christian Encounters
Resentment, nostalgia and the underpinnings of a populist worldview
Brexit and the Death of Centrist Liberalism
Nationalism in the neoliberal order
A new Elizabethan age
Nostalgia and political analysis
Euroscepticism, Anti‐Nostalgic Nostalgia and the Past Perfect Post‐Brexit Future
A tale of two cities
Unraveling the white working-class conundrum
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |