Nostalgia and heritage

What is it about?

This is the introduction to a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies on nostalgia and heritage. The aim of this special issue is to illustrate that nostalgic responses come in many forms, often surprising and unexpected, with an array of political and social consequences, and are commonplace emotional responses to heritage and engaging with the past, and we suggest heritage studies might fruitfully engage with this formulation. In particular, we think it is important to deal with nostalgia specifically as an emotion, and to pay close attention to the following ways that emotion can be seen as important.

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