Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. His other books include, The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History, White Identities: International and Historical Perspectives, Anti-racism and Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation.

New approach to the study of the left and radicalism

Introduction
The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia
Acknowledging Nostalgia: Four Provocations
Six Windows onto Radical Nostalgia

Part One

Chapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt
Introduction
Nostalgia as the Modern Dilemma
The 'ruthless criticism of all that exists'
Radical Nostalgia
'We have lost something': The End of Utopia
Nostalgia's Uncertain Return
Conclusion

Chapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialist History, 1775-1894
Introduction
The Politics of Loss in English Socialist History
From Poorman's Advocate to Proletarian: Thomas Spence and Radical Tradition
William Morris: Nostalgia in an Age of Progress
Robert Blatchford: The New Life and Old Traditions of Socialist Fellowship
Conclusion

Part Two

Chapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Introduction
Anti-Colonial Nostalgia: Roots Against Empire
Postcolonial Nostalgias: Yearning for Resistance
Conclusion

Chapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis
Introduction
Cosmopolitan Attachments
Renewing resistance: Nostalgia and anti-nostalgia in British radical anti-racism
Nostalgia Strikes Back: Paul Gilroy's After Empire
Conclusion: Sharing Loss

Part Three

Chapter Five: Yearning at the Extremes: Situationist Nostalgia
Introduction
The Spectacle as Loss
'Whoever Sees the Banks of the Seine Sees Our Grief': Situationist Nostalgia for Place
Conclusions and New Departures

Chapter Six: The Psychogeography of Loss
Introduction
Purgatory and Redemption around the M25: The Radical
Nostalgia of Iain Sinclair
adical Re-enchantments: Magic, Preservationism and
Nostalgia in Revolutionary Psychogeography
Conclusion

Conclusion: Acknowledging Nostalgia

References
Index