This political culture relied on the use of "selective nostalgia" to strengthen loyalist local authority but could also be used to challenge central authority.
Thus, with the rediscovery of a forgotten person and experience, modern scholars infuse the home with feelings of nostalgia.
The finding that nostalgia was more salient for older, than for younger refugees lends credibility to this speculation.
These traits are subsumed into collecting as a significant aspect of social identity, involving the acquisition of cultural capital, overlaid with a patina of nostalgia.
This verbal nostalgia for the past of a love affair is overlaid in the song by a deeper nostalgia for infancy.
This past would act as an inspiration for future action rather than an object of empty nostalgia.
In surveying modern theories of nostalgia the author points out that most ' ' proceed from and are governed by notions of loss and amnesia.
The world constantly renews itself, and when you look at it that way, regret and nostalgia seem equally futile.