Mobile nostalgias

Connecting visions of the urban past, present and future amongst ex‐residents

Bibliographic Data

ID8962089
AuthorsAlastair Bonnett (0000-0002-7052-9298, Newcastle University, corresponding author), Catherine Alexander (0000-0003-4091-0407, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year2012
Volume38
Issue3
Pages391-402
Publication date2012-05-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00531.x
OpenAlexW2108345633
LanguageEN
Citations received52
References cited43

Drawing on interviews with ex‐residents of Tyneside (United Kingdom), this paper builds on recent reappraisals of nostalgia as a ‘productive’ and ‘living’ disposition, to show how fond memories and a sense of loss shape and sustain engagement with the city. In contrast to recent attempts to identify active nostalgia only with its ‘reflective’ forms, or to separate out ‘official’ and ‘non‐official’ nostalgia, the paper demonstrates that nostalgias are mobile and interwoven. It is shown that ‘restorative’ and ‘reflective’ forms can co‐exist and state‐led practices of conservation be maintained in a complex and mutually sustaining relationship with more personal, less official, visions of the value of the past. Thus it is argued that urban nostalgia for the city needs to be acknowledged as a potentially critical intervention that draws together different modes of attachment and yearning

Aesthetics · Art · Intervention (counseling · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Vision · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance

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