Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine Their Lives

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Back in Time
	Stranger Things on a School Day
	Nostalgia, Transnational Media, and Young Audiences in the Global South
	The Nostalgia Economy and Nostalgia Cultures
	Costa Rica as a Site of Research
		An Exceptional Past
		From a Golden Age to a Lost Paradise
	Overview of This Book
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: From Memory to Nostalgia
	Echoes from the Past
	Memory as Social Practice
	Sites of Memory
	From Post to Prosthetic Memories
	Transnational and Transcultural Memories
	Experiencing Nostalgia
		The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
		Therapeutics of Nostalgia
	The Articulation of Nostalgia
	What Is (Not) Nostalgia?
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Making Sense of Nostalgia
	Interpreting the Past
	Playing with the Past
	Hearing the Past
	Experiencing the Past through Fashion
	Old Technologies and the Alluring Lifestyles of the Past
	Conclusions: Aestheticising the Past
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Imagining the Past: Idealisations and Ambivalences
	Conjuring the Past
	Imagining Stranger Things in Costa Rica
		A Rural Costa Rica
		Locating Folklore in the Past
	Imagining Bohemian Rhapsody in Costa Rica
		A Lost Golden Age
		Freddie Mercury: A Costa Rican Other
	Conclusions: Imagining a National Past
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Per Aspera Ad Astra
	A Tale of Two Worlds
	The Social Space of a Latin American Middle Class
	Clashing with the Adult World: Debating Sexuality and Religion
	Intergenerational Conflicts: A Matter of Ideology and Politics
	Understanding the Past to Build a Better Future
	The Promise of Intergenerational Justice
	Conclusions: Articulating an Aesthetic Nostalgia
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Charming Pasts and Impossible Futures
	Us and Them
	The Social Space of La Carpio
	Clashing with Social Constraints
	A Stigmatised Youth
	Confronting Social Reality
	Striking for Being Heard
	The Past: Medicine for the Uncertainty of the Present and the Future
	Conclusions: Articulating a Material Nostalgia
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Nostalgia as Structure of Feeling
	Going Back Before Moving Forward
	Structures of Feeling
	Nostalgia as a Structure of Feeling
	Idealising the Past and Feeling the Present
	Dreams of Future Past
	Transnational and Transcultural Nostalgias
	Media Engagements, Audiences, and Power
	The End of the Road or the Beginning of Future Nostalgia
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Epilogue: A Meditation on Homecomings
	From Homer to Stranger Things
	The Tropical and the Young
	Theologies for the Past
	Ghosts of Living Pasts
	References
Appendix: Research Design
	Analysing Reception with an Ethnographic Sensibility
	Developing the Fieldwork in Costa Rica
		Ethical Considerations
		Reflexivity
		Sampling Strategies
		Media Consumption Habits Survey
		Focus Group Discussions
		Qualitative Paired Interviews
		Analysis
		Dramatis Personae
	Notes
	References
Index