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@article{ Dora2006, title = {The rhetoric of nostalgia: postcolonial Alexandria between uncanny memories and global geographies}, author = {Dora, Veronica Della}, journal = {Cultural Geographies}, number = {2}, pages = {207-238}, volume = {13}, year = {2006}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1191/1474474006eu357oa}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232751}, abstract = {Memory, nostalgia and place are subjects of increasing scholarly interest. While invoked by cultural geographers as a ‘productive force’ moulding urban landscape, nostalgia often remains an unexamined, a priori concept. Through the exploration of different reactions to the spatialized history of postcolonial Alexandria, I consider nostalgia as a fluid, multifaceted, and performative force operating at different scales and levels: on one hand, an unconscious phenomenon in the years following Egyptian nationalization, intertwining with the uncanny and bringing to surface ‘unwanted’ memories; on the other, a powerful device increasingly exploited by urban developers and the state for the construction of a ‘cosmopolitan memory’. While the former kind of nostalgia presents itself as an effective counterpart to the colonial ‘cartographic gaze’, the latter responds to the logics of cultural consumption, and constitutes a strategy adopted in an increasing number of former cosmopolitan cities seeking to negotiate a position within the global capitalist economy.}, }