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Futures Worth Preserving : Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability / ed. by Robert A. Winkler, Nico Völker, Andressa Schröder, Tom Clucas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 157Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783839441220
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  • 306 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Content -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Juxtapose the Concepts of Nostalgia and Sustainability? -- Nostalgia and the Genesis and Sustainability of Values -- Between Nostalgia and the New: Turns to Ontology in Contemporary Theory -- Civic Art Lab: Reflections on Art, Design, and Sustainability -- Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice -- Agente Costura: Sustainability Sounds -- Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery -- Commoning Nostalgia: Making “Romantic Sensibility Sustainable” in Contemporary Poetry -- Nostalgic Utopias: William Dean Howells’s Altrurian Romances (1892-1907) -- Cultural Ecosystems and the Paradoxes of American Environmentalism -- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pastness: Nostalgia and Sustainability in American Post-Suburbia -- Nostalgia and the Sustainable Lyric: John Burnside and the Pibroch -- Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency -- Value Creation in Nostalgia and Sustainability: Interacting on Behalf of the Absent -- Authors
Summary: Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of ›futures worth preserving‹. The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them. Drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the chapters investigate cultural assumptions about which aspects of the past deserve to be remembered and which aspects of the present should be sustained for the future. In the process, they reveal how contemporary definitions of sustainability are informed by a nostalgic yearning for the past, and how nostalgia is motivated by a reciprocal longing to sustain the past for the future.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Content -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Juxtapose the Concepts of Nostalgia and Sustainability? -- Nostalgia and the Genesis and Sustainability of Values -- Between Nostalgia and the New: Turns to Ontology in Contemporary Theory -- Civic Art Lab: Reflections on Art, Design, and Sustainability -- Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice -- Agente Costura: Sustainability Sounds -- Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery -- Commoning Nostalgia: Making “Romantic Sensibility Sustainable” in Contemporary Poetry -- Nostalgic Utopias: William Dean Howells’s Altrurian Romances (1892-1907) -- Cultural Ecosystems and the Paradoxes of American Environmentalism -- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pastness: Nostalgia and Sustainability in American Post-Suburbia -- Nostalgia and the Sustainable Lyric: John Burnside and the Pibroch -- Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency -- Value Creation in Nostalgia and Sustainability: Interacting on Behalf of the Absent -- Authors

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Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of ›futures worth preserving‹. The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them. Drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the chapters investigate cultural assumptions about which aspects of the past deserve to be remembered and which aspects of the present should be sustained for the future. In the process, they reveal how contemporary definitions of sustainability are informed by a nostalgic yearning for the past, and how nostalgia is motivated by a reciprocal longing to sustain the past for the future.

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In English.

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