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Anglo nostalgia : the politics of emotion in a fractured West / Edoardo Campanella and Marta Dassù.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campanella, Edoardo, author.
- Dassù, Marta, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Great Britain.
- Nationalism.
- National characteristics, British.
- Nostalgia--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Nostalgia.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.
- Great Britain.
- European Union--Great Britain.
- European Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hurst & Company, 2020.
- Summary:
- Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump hopes to 'make America great again', Xi Jinping calls for a 'great rejuvenation of the Chinese people', and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. But it is Brexit, with its idealization of a bygone era of full sovereignty, that epitomizes nostalgic nationalism in its purest form. Despite its romantic flavour, nostalgia is a malaise - a combination of paranoia and melancholy that idealizes the past, while denigrating the present. This epidemic of mythicizing national history is shaping politics in risky ways, fuelled by ageing populations, shifts in the global order, and technological disruption. When deployed in the political debate, collective nostalgia is used as an emotional weapon, capable of mobilizing a nation towards illusory goals.
- Contents:
- Part one : mythmaking. A global epidemic
- Nostalgia as an emotional weapon
- Constructing a nostalgic narrative
- Birth of an idea
- Part two : reality check. The foreign policy of nostalgia
- The Anglo-Saxon tribe
- A not-so-special relationship : America and Britain
- Conclusion : nostalgia and the future of sovereignty.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-009961-5
- 0-19-009257-2
- 0-19-009262-9
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