The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

This article untangles competing conceptualisations of nostal- gia and identifies a specific form of collective-restorative nostalgia as politically significant. We argue that the link between resentment and this type of nostalgia emerges from their joint critique of the socio-political realities of the present. Nostalgia provides spatial and temporal orienta- tions for a group's experiences of resentment through highly selective recollections of the heartland and an idealised golden age. We hypothesize that nostalgia leverages the heartland and the golden age to formulate claims for recog- ni... Mehr ...