Culture & Theory
Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability
Culture & Theory
Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability
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.
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This collection of essays and artistic contributions problematizes the relationship between past-oriented practices of sustaining and future-oriented forms of remembering. The present becomes the moment in which both notions overlap: Cultures have to position themselves both in relation to what they have once been and to what they aspire to become.