The politics of nostalgia : class, rootlessness and decline

For ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of living continue to fall. Our institutions seem redundant, our cities dilapidated and dysfunctional. Elect...

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Main Author Winlow, Simon (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
SeriesSociety now.
Subjects
Social change.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781837535507
DOI10.1108/9781837535484
Physical Description1 online resource (208 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Falling
  • Chapter 1. The new politics of nostalgia
  • Chapter 2. Fearing the future
  • Chapter 3. Lost roots
  • Chapter 4. Beyond modernism
  • Chapter 5. Permanent reform
  • Chapter 6. Intimations of post-sociality
  • Chapter 7. Towards a better future.

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