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Introduction: mobilizing nostalgia in Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2020

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Ryoko Nakano*
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Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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Author for correspondence: Ryoko Nakano, E-mail: rnakano@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

What is the role of nostalgia in our increasingly dynamic and interconnected world? This special issue, Mobilizing Nostalgia in Asia, assesses the mobilization of nostalgia in the changing international order, and within individuated socioeconomic and cultural spheres. Its four articles examine the political and social dynamics that evoke, utilize, amend, and manipulate nostalgia for collective present needs and demands. This Introduction connects the issue's four contributions to three interconnected themes: the power of nostalgia, the plurality of nostalgia, and nostalgia as a process of creation.

Keywords

Creative processmemorynarrativenostalgiapowerremembrance
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Special Issue Articles
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International Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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