Nostalgia of the future. post-industrial narratives in the mining basins of Asturias
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Nostalgia, Narratives, Posindustrial, half-life of deindustrialization, structure of feellingAbstract
Through a selection of extracts from oral testimonies, collected fromthe 1990s to the present day, this article reconsiders ideas about nostalgia in the context of the process of deindustrialisation and post-industrial transformation in the mining areas of Asturias. Based on the idea of the persistence of deindustrialism, conceptualised as “Thehalf-life of deindustrialization” by sociologist Sherry Linkon, the aims to show how the narratives, discourses and representations of this process symbolically mobilise the industrial past to find answers to present uncertainties without necessarily suffering from what has been labelled as the “disease” of nostalgia. Similarly, these narratives can be seen as representations of a structure of feeling.
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