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Nostalgia
• Reading the role of nostalgia, the past, memory, real or imagined in the landscape.
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What isn’t here?
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Landscape and Memory
• Landscape is an object of cultural memory– landscape is symbolic for culture– culture creates symbolic features
in the landscape• Cultural memory is constructed,
fabricated, invented, suppressed, changes
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Simon Schama
• Descendent of Lithuanian Jews
• c. 1991 Investigates his Lithuanian roots with help from the “shoebox” of family memories
• Visits Lithuania/Poland border
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Early C20th Lithuania: Land of the Jewish Lumberjack
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Jewish cemetery at Punsk
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Memorial mound at Giby
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• Jews (and memory of Jews) have vanished from the local landscape– victims of violence
• Other victims of history being “remembered”– Landscape
expressions
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Remembering the Past
• Memory is selective, even fabricated• May suffer amnesia
– as in Lithuania’s Jews• May indulge in fanciful nostalgia
– obsession with roots
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1985
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Lowenthal’s Thesis
• The present era shows widespread disdain for the past
• This leads in two directions:– To disdain for tradition, to cultural amnesia– To a cult of preservation, a mania for roots, a
pervasive nostalgia
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Slavoj Žižek
• Superstar Slovenian philosopher of the moment
• In his 2010 book Living in the End Times:– Argues that an age is ending– Conservative nostalgia, longing for the return
of a stable, comfortable past, part of our reaction to the ending of the age.
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Lowenthal:
• Past becomes a focus for personal identity, and national identity. It becomes a bulwark against massive and distressing change
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Lowenthal:
• In the present age we are more systematic than in previous ages in our desire to preserve the past and have contact with it.
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Ancestor Worship
• Ancestor-hunters searching the archives for family roots
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Ancestor Hunters: Cornwall ON
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The Past brought to life
• Period dramas, historical novels, historical documentaries
• Boardwalk empires• Vestibules do Shakespeare
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The Past Brought to Life
• Creation of nostalgic place• Millions of visitors to historic houses and
pioneer villages– Past as Foreign Country gets a lot of tourist
trade
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Places of Nostalgia
• Take an “authentic” historic site and make its history into a commodity
• Create a synthetic “historic site” in which history is simulated
• There is a difference?
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Pays de La Sagouine
• Located at Bouctouche NB• Theme attraction based on nostalgic
novels of Antonine Maillet• Novels feature a Scrubwoman (La
Sagouine) in depression-era coastal Acadia
• Features costumed interpreters, singing, dancing, poutine rapé
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Historic Acadian Village, NB
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English Civil War Re-Enacted:Nottingham Castle
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The New Nostalgia
• Middle-class filling homes with genuine and simulated antiques
• Preoccupation with retro and antique styled products
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Antiques Roadshow
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Markville Antiques Fair 1988
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Markville Antiques Fair 1988
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Examples of nostalgia
• Manufacturers marketing nostalgic products
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Nostalgic Furniture
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Old-Tyme Street Lamps
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Back to the future
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Business Depot2001
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Business Depot 2001
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Sears 1985
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Sears 1985
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Eaton’s 1976
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Nostalgia it ain’t what it used to be
• It comes in period styles:– C18th to early C19th: Classic Greek– early C19th: Egyptian– Mid C19th: Medieval gothic– Early C20th: Tudor– Late C20th: Victorian
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Neo-Victorian Toronto
• Real-estate developers commodifying “heritage” or simulating it– Inner-city Gentrification– Suburban neo-Victorian
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Yuppie Gentrifiers• Want a genuine-looking
Victorian façade– Gingerbread, Historic plaque
• Want the historic interior gutted– upgrade to modern suburban
standards• Want to fill the house with
antiques– Plus the latest Yuppie gadgets
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Dot.Com Gentrification
• King/Dufferin Area– Close to telephone
hubs– Attraction of vibrant
streetlife and loft buildings
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Old Buildings
• “restored” by – heavy sandblasting– removal of previous
industrial functions
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Dot.Com offices• Restored & Period buildings• Office suites
– devoted to high-tech new economy– filled with the latest equipment
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Nostalgia is selective
• Things to enjoy in Victorian Ontario– Pit latrines in high summer?– Old-fashioned gender relations?– hepatitis with old-style cooking?– Old fashioned Hotels with bedbugs?– Catch tuberculosis in grade seven!
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HGTV
• Kitty Bartholomew did a show on the “British Colonial Look”
• Decorate your home with– wicker furniture– animal prints– hunting trophies– black servants?