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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 m...
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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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Pages: 272
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837641226
Format: Paperback
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics
»What remains to be explored, and for which this edited volume has laid an important foundation, is the desire called utopia (sensu Fredric Jameson), its entanglement with values, its cultural manifestations across the globe, and its influence on concepts of nostalgia and sustainability.«

Andressa Schröder is a PhD researcher in Cultural Sustainability. Her research interests include environmental aesthetics, arts-based research, sustainability ethics, alternative and psychedelic art and culture.
Nico Völker is a PhD researcher in American Studies. His thesis is a cultural narratology of the process of gentrification in 21st-century Brooklyn.
Robert A. Winkler is an assistant professor at the Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg in Austria. He received his Ph.D. from the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen in 2019 with a dissertation on race and gender in hardcore punk.
Tom Clucas completed his DPhil at Oxford and was a Deputy Professor of English and American Literature and Culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen. He now works at a leading law firm in London.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Content 5
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction: Why Juxtapose the Concepts of Nostalgia and Sustainability? 9
Nostalgia and the Genesis and Sustainability of Values 37
Between Nostalgia and the New: Turns to Ontology in Contemporary Theory 55
Civic Art Lab: Reflections on Art, Design, and Sustainability 73
Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice 95
Agente Costura: Sustainability Sounds 111
Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery 119
Commoning Nostalgia: Making "Romantic Sensibility Sustainable" in Contemporary Poetry 139
Nostalgic Utopias: William Dean Howells's Altrurian Romances (1892-1907) 161
Cultural Ecosystems and the Paradoxes of American Environmentalism 177
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pastness: Nostalgia and Sustainability in American Post-Suburbia 197
Nostalgia and the Sustainable Lyric: John Burnside and the Pibroch 221
Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency 239
Value Creation in Nostalgia and Sustainability: Interacting on Behalf of the Absent 257
Authors 267