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Title Futures Worth Preserving : Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability / Robert A. Winkler, Nico Völker, Andressa Schröder, Tom Clucas
Published Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2019]
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Series Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 157
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Content -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Juxtapose the Concepts of Nostalgia and Sustainability? / Schröder, Andressa / Völker, Nico / Winkler, Robert A. / Clucas, Tom -- Nostalgia and the Genesis and Sustainability of Values / Chrostowska, S.D. -- Between Nostalgia and the New: Turns to Ontology in Contemporary Theory / Kovach, Elizabeth -- Civic Art Lab: Reflections on Art, Design, and Sustainability / Scherling, Laura / Kasper, Jeff -- Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice / Clucas, Tom -- Agente Costura: Sustainability Sounds / Simpson, Lisa -- Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery / Lap, Theo B. -- Commoning Nostalgia: Making "Romantic Sensibility Sustainable" in Contemporary Poetry / Eltringham, Daniel -- Nostalgic Utopias: William Dean Howells's Altrurian Romances (1892-1907) / Metz, Katharina -- Cultural Ecosystems and the Paradoxes of American Environmentalism / Kipourou, Ioanna -- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pastness: Nostalgia and Sustainability in American Post-Suburbia / Berkemeier, Moritz W. -- Nostalgia and the Sustainable Lyric: John Burnside and the Pibroch / Gurrey, Owen -- Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency / Salmose, Niklas -- Value Creation in Nostalgia and Sustainability: Interacting on Behalf of the Absent / Langenohl, Andreas -- Authors
Summary How can the paradoxical conceptual overlap of nostalgia and sustainability in cultural constructions of the present be used in order to make previously unexplored territory within the study of culture accessible?The collection of essays and artistic contributions aims at answering this and other questions. It 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
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
Subject Kulturwissenschaft
Theoriebildung
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Form Electronic book
Author Clucas, Tom, editor
Schröder, Andressa, editor
Völker, Nico, editor
Winkler, Robert A., editor
ISBN 3839441226
9783839441220