nostalgia
Let an agent handle nostalgia as an emotion and cultural phenomenon, neutrally, including political nostalgia, and with care for well-being.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle nostalgia as an emotion and cultural phenomenon, neutrally, including political nostalgia, and with care for well-being.
A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, a place or a period, sometimes idealised; forms include personal nostalgia, cultural and digital nostalgia, related concepts such as hiraeth, and political nostalgia for past regimes.
What it is for: An emotion shaping memory, identity, culture and markets.
It can be describe nostalgia in psychology; analyse nostalgia in culture and marketing; discuss political nostalgia neutrally; support people when longing becomes distress.
Distinguishing features
Longing for the past
Bittersweet
Often idealises
Used in marketing and politics
What it looks like
Not visible; expressed in memories, media, fashion and politics.
How it is recognised
Retro trends
Culture-specific concepts such as hiraeth
Political nostalgia movements
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - process
is studied by - fields
is used in - contexts
In practice
Families and kinds
personal nostalgia
cultural and retro nostalgia
digital nostalgia
homesickness and hiraeth
political nostalgia
Failure modes and hazards
Endorsing idealised or distorted history
Partisan framing of political nostalgia
Missing distress behind longing
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Emotion What it is.
Psychology describes it.
Experience
Feeling.
Experience
Experience.
- How does psychology describe nostalgia? provenance
- What functions does it serve? provenance
Well-being
Distress.
Well-being
Well-being.
- Is longing turning into distress or grief that needs support? boundary
- Where can support be found? action
Culture Retro and media.
Culture trades on nostalgia.
Trends
Retro.
Trends
Retro trends.
- How does nostalgia shape fashion, media and design? provenance
- Which periods are revived? definition
Concepts
Culture-specific words.
Concepts
Culture-specific concepts.
- What do concepts such as hiraeth mean in their culture? provenance
- How do they differ from nostalgia? definition
Politics Political nostalgia.
Political nostalgia is contested.
Movements
Examples.
Movements
Political nostalgia.
- How do researchers describe political nostalgia? provenance
- Are views attributed neutrally? boundary
History
Idealisation.
History
Historical accuracy.
- Does the nostalgic account match historical evidence? provenance
- What is left out? boundary
Marketing Persuasion.
Nostalgia sells.
Use
Campaigns.
Use
Nostalgia marketing.
- How is nostalgia used in marketing? definition
- Is it manipulative? boundary
Digital
Online nostalgia.
Digital
Digital nostalgia.
- What is digital nostalgia? definition
- How do platforms use memories features? definition
What the second pass must settle
- Should kinds of nostalgia be separate entries?
- How should political movements be linked neutrally?
- How should culture-specific concepts be linked?