. The article focuses on the perceptions of generation post-Soviet youth about collapse USSR. An attempt to analyse reasons for favourable and “nostalgic” attitude USSR part those who, due their age, have no experience Soviet life is made. It shown that, according mass surveys, attitudes towards depend age respondents: older generations predominantly perceive Union negatively, while among young...

We examine emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces of care, linked with past experiences. In this paper we draw on findings from a qualitative study of the transfer of psychiatric inpatient care from an old to a newly built facility. We show how the meanings attributed to ‘therapeutic landscapes’ from one’s past can evoke emotions and memories, manifesting in ideas about nostalgia, sol...

On the occasion of the celebration of the first half-century of Yang–Mills theories, I am contributing a personal recollection of how the subject, in its early times, confronted physical reality, that is, its “phenomenology”. There is nothing original in this work, except, perhaps, my own points of view. But I hope that the older practitioners of the field will find here grounds for nostalgia, ...

This article explores the proliferation of private housing and business objects along major roads that are modelled to resemble castles. I am interested in the changes these structures make in landscape, the new qualities they bring to the surroundings and the meanings they connote. From a first glance at their flamboyant, surreal and naïve forms it is evident that the structures represent nost...

Nostalji olgusu modernleşme sonrasında sosyal bilimlerin temel tartışmalarından birisi olmuştur. Kentleşme, ve sanayileşme ile birlikte toplumlarda kolektif düzlemde bir arayış ortaya çıkmış modern hayatın açmazlarından kurtulmak noktasında geçmiş zaman idealize edilmeye başlanmıştır. Bu bağlamda nostaljinin kitleselleşmesi yaygınlaşması modernitenin önemli etkisi Farklı zamansal mekânsal geçmi...