- Title
- Formations of belonging in Australia: The role of nostalgia in experiences of time and place
- Creator
- Cuervo, Hernán; Cook, Julia
- Relation
- ARC.DP1094132
- Relation
- Population, Space and Place Vol. 25, Issue 5, no. e2214
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.2214
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Although residential mobility has been studied at length, residential immobility has been addressed comparatively rarely. In this article, we draw on interviews conducted with 35 participants aged 38–39 in 2012 in Victoria, Australia, in which they were asked to reflect on their lives over the previous 20 years, focusing specifically on those who have remained in or returned to the areas in which they grew up. We focus on the role of nostalgia in the participants' experiences of and relationships with place, finding that far from signifying a purely, or even predominantly, melancholic experience their expressions of nostalgia held the power to enliven the present, even while anchoring them to the past. We contend that nostalgia can form an integral part of practices that reconcile continuity and change and produce feelings of familiarity and comfort, which buffer individuals against the uncertainties associated with wider contexts shaped by rapid social change.
- Subject
- belonging; nostalgia; place; rural stayers; urban stayers; SDG 11; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437335
- Identifier
- uon:40317
- Identifier
- ISSN:1544-8444
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cuervo, Hernán; Cook, Julia. “Formations of belonging in Australia: The role of nostalgia in experiences of time and place”. Population, Space and Place Vol. 25, Issue 5, no. e2214 (2018), which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.2214. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
- Language
- eng
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