Nostalgia reveals nature’s true value - New Statesman
Mar 6, 2024 · When considering the natural world, we should treat nostalgia not as a weakness, but as a diagnostic tool that allows us to identify the essential places and creatures that we have so carelessly lost and cannot replace.
Nostalgia and Well-Being in Daily Life: An Ecological Validity ...
Nostalgia is a mixed emotion. Recent empirical research, however, has highlighted positive effects of nostalgia, suggesting it is a predominantly positive emotion. When measured as an individual difference, nostalgia-prone individuals report greater meaning in …
Ecological Nostalgias: Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of ...
Ecological nostalgias, or as we call them, ‘eco-nostalgias’, are so pervasive in contemporary societies upset by climate change and the devastation of ecosystems that we believe it deserves to be approached as a singular ethnographic object.
A longing for the natural past: unexplored benefits and impacts of …
May 24, 2019 · Here, we view ecological nostalgia, which we define as a desire to return a degraded ecosystem to a past state that complements bittersweet memories of a better ecological period, as an accompanying motivator for applied ecological restoration.
Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature …
Indians and nature have been versatile, often contradictory, foils for constructions of white American identity since European settlement. Indians have a long and distinctive history of being both quintessentially “American” and the very antithesis of national identity.
A longing for the natural past: Unexplored benefits and impacts of …
May 24, 2019 · Here, we view ecological nostalgia, which we define as a desire to return a degraded ecosystem to a past state that complements bittersweet memories of a better ecological period, as an...
Many nature narratives are fraught with nostalgia—for the western frontier, for unspoiled landscapes, for a pre-indus trial golden age, or for harmonious communities with close connections to nature.
Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing - alluvium.bacls.org
May 13, 2013 · Contemporary nature writing presents an opportunity to reconnect some of the meanings of nostalgia, addressing a perceived estrangement from our environment through examination of our surroundings in search of new or renewed ways of …
Ecological Nostalgias: Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of ...
In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
Project MUSE - Reclaiming Nostalgia
While referencing nostalgia for pastoral communities and for untamed and often violent frontiers, she also highlights the ways in which nostalgia for nature has served as a mechanism for social change, a model for ethical relationships, and a motivating …