Episode 12: Nostalgia - canvassing the politics of memory lane
Prof. Constantine Sedikides and Prof. Tim Wildschut explain the psychology behind nostalgia.
Prof. Constantine Sedikides and Prof. Tim Wildschut explain the psychology behind nostalgia.
Politics on the Couch host Rafael Behr talks to Professors Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut of the University of Southampton, about the way people narrate the stories of their past, what they get from the process and the way political campaigns can exploit those feelings.
Prof. Constantine Sedikides
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/psychology/about/staff/cs2.page
Prof Tim Wildschut
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/psychology/about/staff/timw.page
Nostalgia website
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/nostalgia/
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Rafael Behr is a political columnist for the Guardian. He is a former Political Editor for the New Statesman, Chief Leader Writer and Online Editor for The Observer, a business news reporter for BBC online and a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, based in the Baltic region and Russia. Rafael is a regular contributor to Prospect Magazine, a guest on BBC and Sky News and a speaker at UK think tanks. His book, Politics, A Survivor’s Guide, is published by Atlantic. He hosts the Politics on the Couch podcast. Before becoming a journalist, Rafael was a political risk analyst covering countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He studied modern languages Merton College, Oxford and took a Master’s degree in Russian Studies at the School for Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He lives in Brighton with his family. He plays the guitar and harmonica, sometimes simultaneously, not always melodiously.
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