The Geography of Nostalgia. Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss
The Geography of Nostalgia. Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss
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怀旧的地理。
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2016
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J. Connell
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这是一位雄心勃勃的作家，他写了一本书《怀旧的地理》，然后在《社会学进展》系列中出版。那些讨厌的社会学家会在船上占据适当的空间和位置吗？在不到180页的篇幅里，这本书怎么能成为权威的文本呢？很及时。这本书在我从澳大利亚乡村的猫王节回来后一天左右就放在了我的桌子上，书中充满了怀旧和令人厌倦的舞步。回到家里，我换上了我那件似乎没人喜欢的复古T恤，匆忙拿了些血肠，这不是一种古老的饮食，而是一种家常的提醒，然后坐下来看电视上的真实的板球--不是让我想起自己在约克郡围场里艰苦劳作的20岁板球--而是约翰·梅杰的乡村蔬菜和温啤酒。要么是唐顿修道院要么是你以为你是谁与此同时，新闻简报关注的是欧盟国家正在考虑与英国脱欧一起回到申根前的日子，而唐纳德特朗普和伊斯兰国则以略微不同的方式寻求怀旧和民族国家的复兴。苏格兰民族主义者在上次选举后仍在发光，加泰罗尼亚也在寻求类似的策略。现在我会发现是什么把所有这些怀旧的线索联系在一起。不幸的是，我没有：几乎没有一个字关于食物，音乐，运动，家谱，那些构成我们的空间感和时间感的许多东西。当然，把任何书评的目标对准书中没有的东西是不公平的，邦尼特确实短暂地遇到了咖啡、移民和奶酪。那么，他在讨论什么呢？尽管有遗漏，这本书在许多方面仍然是兼收并蓄的，确实如此。它从英国的田野游荡到印度的火葬，从拉图尔、马克思、尼采，到一夫多妻、普鲁斯特和托马斯哈代。但是，把所有这些结合在一起并不是一件容易的事情。Bonnett正在寻求探索现代性，地理和怀旧的相互关联的性质，没有微不足道的任务。他把怀旧描述为一种“破坏性和令人不安的力量”，而不是他所面对的各种试图“拯救对进步政治的怀旧”的尝试。因此，邦尼特面临着一个异常困难的挑战-写一个不带感情色彩的叙述一个本质上是感性的主题，从强烈的个人怀旧转向国家的纪念过程。开头一段的大部分柔和怀旧在这里是完全不可接受的;没有什么是没有政治色彩的。《怀旧地理学》被誉为“第一个研究失去作为一种全球和地方现象的研究，这种现象发生在许多不同的尺度上，并将许多不同的人联系在一起”。这是真的，但不是第一次。
It is an ambitious author who entitles a book The Geography of Nostalgia and then publishes it in a series on Advances in Sociology. Will those pesky sociologists ever take space and place properly on board and how, in less than 180 pages, can this be the definitive text? It was timely. The book landed on my desk a day or so after I had come back from an Elvis Presley festival in rural Australia—nostalgia and weary dance moves a plenty. Back home I changed into my retro tee shirt, that no one else seemed to love, hastily grabbed some black pudding, not quite a palaeo diet but a homely reminder, and settled down for real cricket on TV—not the Twenty20 that reminded me of my own slogging days in Yorkshire paddocks – but John Major’s village greens, and warm beer. It was either that, Downton Abbey or Who Do You Think You Are? Meanwhile the news bulletins focused on EU states contemplating a return to pre-Schengen days, alongside BREXIT, while Donald Trump and Islamic State, in marginally different way, were seeking other variants of nostalgia and the reclamation of the nation-state. Scottish nationalists were still glowing in the aftermath of the last election and Catalonia was seeking a similar strategy. Now I would discover what it was that might tie together all these threads of nostalgia. Unfortunately I did not: barely a word on food, music, sport, genealogy, those many things that make up our senses of place and space, and time. Unfair of course to target any book review at what is not in a book, and Bonnett does briefly encounter coffee, migrants, and cheese. What then does he discuss? Despite the omissions the book is still in many ways eclectic, indeed wantonly so. It wanders from English fields to Indian cremations, from Latour, Marx, and Nietzsche, to Yi Fu Tuan, Proust, and Thomas Hardy. But bringing all that together is no easy task. Bonnett is seeking to explore the interconnected nature of modernity, geography and nostalgia, no trivial task. He presents nostalgia as a “disruptive and unsettling force” rather than, he argues, as in various attempts to “rescue nostalgia for progressive politics” that he confronts. Bonnett thus faced an unusually difficult challenge—to write an unsentimental account of a topic that is inherently sentimental, and which veers from intense personal nostalgia to national processes of memorialisation. The soft nostalgia of much of the opening paragraph is quite inadmissible here; nothing is without political overtones. The Geography of Nostalgia is heralded as ‘the first study of loss as a global and local phenomenon, something that occurs on many different scales and which connects many different people’. True enough, but it is not the first.