dc.contributor.author | Dora, Veronica Della | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-01T07:25:00Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-30T04:48:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-30T04:48:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/23275 | |
dc.description.abstract | Memory, nostalgia and place are subjects of increasing scholarly interest. While invoked by cultural geographers as a ‘productive force’ moulding urban landscape, nostalgia often remains an unexamined, a priori concept. Through the exploration of different reactions to the spatialized history of postcolonial Alexandria, I consider nostalgia as a fluid, multifaceted, and performative force operating at different scales and levels: on one hand, an unconscious phenomenon in the years following Egyptian nationalization, intertwining with the uncanny and bringing to surface ‘unwanted’ memories; on the other, a powerful device increasingly exploited by urban developers and the state for the construction of a ‘cosmopolitan memory’. While the former kind of nostalgia presents itself as an effective counterpart to the colonial ‘cartographic gaze’, the latter responds to the logics of cultural consumption, and constitutes a strategy adopted in an increasing number of former cosmopolitan cities seeking to negotiate a position within the global capitalist economy. | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.title | The rhetoric of nostalgia: postcolonial Alexandria between uncanny memories and global geographies | en |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | Cultural Geographies | de |
dc.source.volume | 13 | de |
dc.source.issue | 2 | de |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232751 | de |
dc.date.modified | 2011-03-01T07:25:00Z | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | http://www.peerproject.eu/ | de |
internal.status | -1 | de |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.source.pageinfo | 207-238 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 70 | de |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1191/1474474006eu357oa | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | en |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | de |
internal.identifier.licence | 7 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 2 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer | CERTAIN | |
internal.check.languageharmonizer | CERTAIN_RETAINED | |