Nostalgia operates as a civic practice enabling non-committal interaction

Evidence

Thus, nostalgia was more than just an inner belief. It made a certain kind of interaction, a civic practice, possible, by helping to maintain Buffaloes’ non-committal, non-verbal style of interaction. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 912

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nostalgia for imagined pasts provides community glue for detached suburbanites — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 906; Nostalgia supplies warm shared feeling without requiring present-day mutual obligation — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 910; Postmodern interest in the past functions as an in-group hobby, not genuine engagement (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern interest in the past functions as an in-group hobby, not genuine engagement #qualifies (0.80)
• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings #corroborates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202