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List of Figures vii Introduction, by Ondine Park, Tonya K. Davidson, and Rob Shields 1 Section I: Nostalgia 1 “Not everything was good, but many things were better”: Nostalgia for East Germany and Its Politics, by Anne Winkler 19 2 Nostalgia and Postmemories of a Lost Place: Actualizing “My Virtual Homeland,” by Tonya K. Davidson 43 3 Placing Nostalgia: The Process of Returning and Remaking Home, by Allison Hui 65 4 From Disease to Desire: The Afflicted Amalgamation of Music and Nostalgia, by Mickey Vallee 85 Section II: Desire 5 The Tourist Affect: Escape and Syncresis on the Las Vegas Strip, by Rob Shields 105 6 (In)Human Desiring and Extended Agency, by Matthew Tiessen 127 7 Cityscapes of Desire: Urban Change in Post-Soviet Russia, by Olga Pak 143 8 Illustrating Desires: The Idea and the Promise of the Suburb in Two Children’s Books, by Ondine Park 169 Contents v Section III: Hope 9 The Virtual Places of Childhood: Hope and the Micro-Politics of Race at an Inner-City Youth Centre, by Bonar Buffam 197 10 Virtual Resurrections: Che Guevara’s Image as Place of Hope, by Maria-Carolina Cambre 217 11 Performing Spaces of Hope: Street Puppetry and the Aesthetics of Scale, by Petra Hroch 245 12 The Spatial Distribution of Hope In and Beyond Fort McMurray, by Sara Dorow and Goze Dogu 271 13 Spectacular Enclosures of Hope: Artificial Islands in the Gulf and the Present, by Mark S. Jackson and Veronica della Dora 293 Conclusion: A Roundtable on the Affective Turn, by Rob Shields, Ondine Park, Tonya K. Davidson, and the Contributors 317 List of Contributors 327 Index 331 vi CONTENTS ...

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