Exploring Nostalgia: Empirical Studies of Contemporary Experiences and Practices

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Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Krystine I. Batcho (Le Moyne College, USA)

Exploring Nostalgia

Empirical Studies of Contemporary Experiences and Practices

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Krystine I. Batcho (Le Moyne College, USA), Janelle L. Wilson (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)

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Routledge
21 October 2025

Social theory; Psychology: emotions; Cognition & cognitive psychology

This volume provides an overview of a number of different areas of social and cultural life in which nostalgia is shown to be an important prism for understanding and analysing human thoughts, actions and feelings.

Featuring a rich collection of empirical studies and analyses of nostalgia, the contributors demonstrate creative ways to study nostalgia – from qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews/narrative analyses to experimental methods that involve inducing nostalgia in research participants. Altogether, these studies highlight the variability of the experience of nostalgia as well as the usefulness of nostalgia at both individual and collective levels, ultimately showing nostalgia to be a helpful, enriching emotion in everyday, pragmatic ways and also at deep, philosophical levels.

Exploring Nostalgia will appeal to scholars, academics, faculty and advanced students with interests in social theory, psychology, cultural studies and the sociology of emotions.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University Denmark), Krystine I. Batcho (Le Moyne College, USA), Janelle L. Wilson (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781041003472
ISBN 10: 1041003471
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 21 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, social theory, qualitative research methodology and utopia/nostalgia. Krystine I. Batcho is Professor of Psychology at Le Moyne College, USA. Her research focuses on nostalgia, memory, emotion, identity, coping, childhood happiness, family and news stories and psychological well-being. Janelle L. Wilson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA. She is a micro-level sociologist, whose research focuses on socialization processes, collective memory, nostalgia and the sociology of everyday life.