The concept of nostalgia in relation to empire is usually analyzed as a longing for former imperial and colonial glory, thus eliding the full spectrum of hegemonic practices that are associated with empire. Focusing on the postindependence narratives and practices of France and Britain, this article distinguishes between imperial nostalgia and colonial nostalgia, arguing that the former is associated with the loss of empire—that is, the decline of national grandeur and the international power politics connected to economic and political hegemony—and the latter with the loss of sociocultural standing or, more precisely, the colonial lifestyle.
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Imperial Nostalgia; Colonial Nostalgia
Differences of Theory, Similarities of Practice?
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Postimperial Melancholia and Brexit
Marc Matera
effectively aided in recent years.” Noting that “Brexiteers, however wistful they may in fact feel for the past of formal Empire, actually seek to play it down or to avoid discussing it,” Thackeray and Toye maintain that imperial nostalgia “could only become
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2021
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Brexit, Erewhon, and Utopia
Porscha Fermanis
: Routledge, 2004), 25–42, here 41; Robert Saunders, “The Myth of Brexit as Imperial Nostalgia,” Prospect , 7 January 2019, https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/the-myth-of-brexit-as-imperial-nostalgia ; Andrew Gardner, “Brexit, Boundaries and Imperial
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Introduction
When Was Brexit? Reading Backward to the Present
Antoinette Burton
dramas—tense and tender scenes that touch on everything from imperial nostalgia to the criminality of immigrants (whether ex-colonial or East European) to the threat of globalizing forces—have unfolded in countless British-based TV series over the last
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Introduction: World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology
Revisiting Contexts of Post-colonialism
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos, Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Andrés Barrera-González, and Pegi Vail
-Gedik , H. ( 2021 ), ‘Orientalism alla Turca’: Evolutionary Desires, Imperial Nostalgias, and Western Anxieties in Ahmed Midhat's Avrupa'da Bir Cevelân Field Notes: History of Anthropology Review . https
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2022
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Brand of Brothers?
The Humboldt Forum and the Myths of Innocence
Jonathan Bach
form of neo-exoticism and imperial nostalgia. The Humboldt Forum is an intriguing subject for exploring this special issue's theme of “myths of innocence” in German public memory. The concept of “innocence” draws on a dual meaning in its etymology
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Britain, Brexit and Euroscepticism
Anthropological Perspectives on Angry Politics, Technopopulism and the UK Referendum
Cris Shore
fixation with borders, the triumph of fake news or demagogic populist nationalism, or imperial nostalgia. 2 These were all elements in the Vote Leave narrative, but other factors were also at work, including a backlash against decades of austerity, anger
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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The Representation of “Difficult Pasts” in Military Museums
The Portuguese Colonial War in the Portuguese Armed Forces Museums
André Caiado
colonial war are articulated with those of the colonial past. They are “entangled memories” marked by silences, amnesia, strategies of active forgetting and selective remembering ( Campos 2017 ; Cardina 2020 ), and imperial nostalgia ( Caiado 2021 ). They
Machiavellian Moments and the Exigencies of Leaving
Stuart Ward
Empire: Global Britain and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 48, no. 6 (2020): 1140–1174, here 1142, doi: 10.1080/03086534.2020.1848403 . 61 Bourke, “Presuppositions of the New British History,” 752. 62
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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