Theoretical and/or methodological considerations

Reference to history shapes the self-perception as a citizen of a society. In the discourse on history, attitudes, values and interpretations of the present are ‘negotiated’, and feelings of belonging can be experienced. Research on mentality or the intergenerational social effects through qualitative content analysis and methods of oral history, women’s history, and emotions history.

“Nostalgia is similar to a historical inversion, a temporal trans-positioning which, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, is typical for mythological and artistic modes of thought.”