Left-behind communities’ political imagination focuses on the present, not a nostalgic past.

Evidence

Contrary to the much-­discussed yearning for returning to America’s past, left-­behind communities’ political speculations seemed much more attuned to the here and now (Skocpol and Williamson 2016). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 437

Categorization

• QUESTION: This challenges the dominant nostalgia narrative about populist voters’ motivations — worth chasing whose evidence Skocpol and Williamson marshal.
• XREF: connects to: Left-behind communities’ political speculation focuses on the present, not the past — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 284; Left-behind rural communities speculate preemptively on the present, not the past — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 284; Yearning for a precolonial essence traps politics in the past instead of the present (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Left-behind communities’ political speculation focuses on the present, not the past #corroborates (0.98) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 284
• Left-behind rural communities speculate preemptively on the present, not the past #corroborates (0.97) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 284
• Yearning for a precolonial essence traps politics in the past instead of the present #qualifies (0.85)