The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore
This paper discusses the nostalgia industry in Singapore. Using Kopytoff’s cultural biographies, we expand upon the traditional Marxian thought on mass culture. Trends such as the memorialisation of physical spaces and the revival of everyday objects of the past show the expansion in cultural biogra...
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| description | This paper discusses the nostalgia industry in Singapore. Using Kopytoff’s cultural biographies, we expand upon the traditional Marxian thought on mass culture. Trends such as the memorialisation of physical spaces and the revival of everyday objects of the past show the expansion in cultural biographies and the expansion in commodification in the current nostalgia industry. This cultural logic has significant buy-in amongst those who subscribe to hipster culture, and consumption of this nostalgia is also mostly undertaken by the middle class. Results have shown that there is a new regime of authenticity beyond that of the State that these cultural producers subscribe to, leading to the expansion of the cultural politics of Nostalgia and influencing discussions of identity and belonging. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/624102019-12-10T12:32:26Z The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore Lim, Jialiang Md Saidul Islam School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture DRNTU::Humanities::History This paper discusses the nostalgia industry in Singapore. Using Kopytoff’s cultural biographies, we expand upon the traditional Marxian thought on mass culture. Trends such as the memorialisation of physical spaces and the revival of everyday objects of the past show the expansion in cultural biographies and the expansion in commodification in the current nostalgia industry. This cultural logic has significant buy-in amongst those who subscribe to hipster culture, and consumption of this nostalgia is also mostly undertaken by the middle class. Results have shown that there is a new regime of authenticity beyond that of the State that these cultural producers subscribe to, leading to the expansion of the cultural politics of Nostalgia and influencing discussions of identity and belonging. Bachelor of Arts 2015-04-01T07:30:44Z 2015-04-01T07:30:44Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62410 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture DRNTU::Humanities::History Lim, Jialiang The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore |
| title | The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore |
| title_full | The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore |
| title_short | The nostalgia industry : producing longing and belonging in Singapore |
| title_sort | nostalgia industry producing longing and belonging in singapore |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture DRNTU::Humanities::History |
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