Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of ›futures worth preserving‹. The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them. Drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the chapters investigate cultural assumptions about which aspects of the past deserve to be remembered and which aspects of the present should be sustained for the future. In the process, they reveal how contemporary definitions of sustainability are informed by a nostalgic yearning for the past, and how nostalgia is motivated by a reciprocal longing to sustain the past for the future.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Juxtapose the Concepts of Nostalgia and Sustainability?
Nostalgia and the Genesis and Sustainability of Values
Between Nostalgia and the New: Turns to Ontology in Contemporary Theory
Civic Art Lab: Reflections on Art, Design, and Sustainability
Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice
Agente Costura: Sustainability Sounds
Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery
Commoning Nostalgia: Making “Romantic Sensibility Sustainable” in Contemporary Poetry
Nostalgic Utopias: William Dean Howells’s Altrurian Romances (1892-1907)
Cultural Ecosystems and the Paradoxes of American Environmentalism
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pastness: Nostalgia and Sustainability in American Post-Suburbia
Nostalgia and the Sustainable Lyric: John Burnside and the Pibroch
Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency
Value Creation in Nostalgia and Sustainability: Interacting on Behalf of the Absent
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