Between Nostalgia and Retrotopia
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Starovoytenko A.D. Between Nostalgia and Retrotopia. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2019. Vol. 11. No. 18. P. 125-135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2019.18.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The notion of nostalgia has been used across various social sciences and humanities, having been rethought many times and acquiring many conceptual configurations. These configurations are not always easy to integrate with each other. Yet a number of new approaches have emerged that make it possible to look upon a person’s (a collective’s, a society’s) attitude to their pass differently. The brightest of them all is the theory of retrotopia as provided by Zygmunt Bauman in his last book. Thus the article has two goals. First, various approaches to theories of nostalgia are observed. Second, it is an attempt to fnd out how Bauman’s retrotopia could help to think more clearly about the problems traditionally discussed within theories of nostalgia.
Keywords:
nostalgia, retrotopia, collective memory, utopia, past, present
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Balazs F. (2007) The apotheosis of Janos Kadar: On the glorifying gesture of nostalgic memory, in: Nosztalgia –Ways of Revisiting the Socialist Past. Ed. I. Willinger. Budapest: Anthropolis, pp. 5–9.
Bartmanski D. (2011) Successful icons of failed time: Rethinking post-communist nostalgia. Acta Sociologica, no. 54(3), pp. 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699311412625
Bauman Z. (2019) Retrotopiya [Retrotopia]. Per. s angl. V. L. Silaevoj; pod nauch. red. O. A. Oberemko. M: VCIOM.
Boym S. (2008) The future of nostalgia. Basic Books.
Davis F. (1979) Yearning for yesterday: A sociology of nostalgia. New York: Free Press.
Heidegger M. (2013) Osnovnye ponyatiya metafziki. Mir — Konechnost’ — Odinochestvo [Introduction to Metaphysics] Per. s nem. V. V. Bibihina, A. V. Ahutina, A. P. Shurbeleva. SPb: Vladimir Dal’.
Hutcheon L., Valdes M. J. (1998) Irony, nostalgia, and the postmodern: a dialogue. Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada, no 3.
Gudkov L. D. (2007) “Sovetski chelovek” v sociologii Yuriya Levady [The “Soviet Man” in Yury Levada’s Sociology]. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’ [Social Sciences and the Present], no 6, pp. 16–30.
Kaspe I. M.(2008) “S”est’ proshloe”: ideologiya ipovsednevnost’ gastronomicheskoj nostal’gii[“Eating the Past”: Gastronomic Nostalgia’s Ideology and Everyday]. http://www.hse.ru/data/418/231/1226/Kaspe_Puti2008.pdf
Rezanova Z. I. (2011) Nostal’giya po sovetskomu [Nostalgia for the Soviet]. Tomsk: Izd-vo Tomskogo universiteta [Tomsk University Press].
Sedikides C., Wildschut T., Arndt J., Routledge C. (2008) Nostalgia: Past, present, and future. Current Directions in Psychological Science, no. 17 (5), pp. 304–307.
Sorokina A. A. (2015) Sindrom politicheskoj nostal’gii u rossiskih studentov: dissertaciya … kandidata politicheskih nauk [Political Nostalgia Syndrome among Russian Students: Thesis for PhD in Political Sciences]: 23.00.03. Mesto zashchity: Ros. akad. nar. hoz-va i gos. sluzhby pri Prezidente RF [The Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration]. Moscow.
Starobinski J., Kemp W. S. (1966) The Idea of Nostalgia. Diogenes, no 14 (54), pp. 81–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/039219216601405405
Todorova M., Gille Z. (2012) Post-communist nostalgia. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Wildschut T., Sedikides C., Arndt J., Routledge C. (2006) Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, no 91 (5), pp. 975–993. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022–3514.91.5.975
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Starovoytenko, A. D. (2019). Between Nostalgia and Retrotopia. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 11(18), 125-135. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2019.18.7
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