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Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia 7
Acknowledging Nostalgia: Four Provocations 9
Six Windows onto Radical Nostalgia 11
One Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt
The `ruthless criticism of all that exists' 22
Radical Nostalgia 28
`We have lost something': The End of Utopia 33
Nostalgia's Uncertain Return 38
Conclusion 47
Two Nostalgia in and against English Socialism, 1775-1894
The Politics of Loss in English Socialist History 60
From Poorman's Advocate to Proletarian: Thomas Spence and Radical Tradition 64
William Morris: Revolutionary Nostalgia in an Age of Progress 69
Robert Blatchford: The New Life and Old Traditions of Socialist Fellowship 73
Conclusion 77
Three Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-colonialism and Post-colonialism
Anti-colonial Nostalgia: Roots against Empire 88
Post-colonial Nostalgias: Yearning for Resistance 96
Conclusion 106
Four The Melancholia of Cosmopolis
Cosmopolitan Attachments 116
Renewing Resistance: Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in British Radical Anti-racism 121
Nostalgia Strikes Back: Paul Gilroy's After Empire 124
Conclusion: Sharing Loss 129
Five Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia
The Spectacle as Loss 140
`Whoever sees the banks of the Seine sees our grief': Situationist Nostalgia for Place 144
Conclusions and New Departures 149
Six The Psychogeography of Loss
Purgatory and Redemption around the M25: The Radical Nostalgia of lain Sinclair 156
Radical Re-enchantments: Magic, Preservationism and Nostalgia in Revolutionary Psychogeography 161
Conclusion 164
Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia
References
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