Left in the Past

Autoreninformationen

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. His other books include, The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History, White Identities: International and Historical Perspectives, Anti-racism and Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia
Acknowledging Nostalgia: Four Provocations
Six Windows onto Radical Nostalgia

Part One

Chapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt
Introduction
Nostalgia as the Modern Dilemma
The 'ruthless criticism of all that exists'
Radical Nostalgia
'We have lost something': The End of Utopia
Nostalgia's Uncertain Return
Conclusion

Chapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialist History, 1775-1894
Introduction
The Politics of Loss in English Socialist History
From Poorman's Advocate to Proletarian: Thomas Spence and Radical Tradition
William Morris: Nostalgia in an Age of Progress
Robert Blatchford: The New Life and Old Traditions of Socialist Fellowship
Conclusion

Part Two

Chapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Introduction
Anti-Colonial Nostalgia: Roots Against Empire
Postcolonial Nostalgias: Yearning for Resistance
Conclusion

Chapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis
Introduction
Cosmopolitan Attachments
Renewing resistance: Nostalgia and anti-nostalgia in British radical anti-racism
Nostalgia Strikes Back: Paul Gilroy's After Empire
Conclusion: Sharing Loss

Part Three

Chapter Five: Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia
Introduction
The Spectacle as Loss
'Whoever Sees the Banks of the Seine Sees Our Grief': Situationist Nostalgia for Place
Conclusions and New Departures

Chapter Six: The Psychogeography of Loss
Introduction
Purgatory and Redemption around the M25: The Radical
Nostalgia of Iain Sinclair
adical Re-enchantments: Magic, Preservationism and
Nostalgia in Revolutionary Psychogeography
Conclusion

Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia

References
Index

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