We often consider nostalgia – the emotional sense that things were better in the past – as the opposite of future orientation. But nostalgia’s relationship with time is more complicated. Francesca Melhuish explores this relationship as it relates to Brexit, and how it helps us to understand the emotional appeal of temporal narratives of the nation
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Warwick and University of Birmingham
Francesca received her PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick in June 2021.
Her published research engages the emotional and spatio-temporal politics of EU integration and its contestation.
She is now focused on turning her doctoral thesis into a book and developing a new project about the role of nostalgia in Britain’s responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
