RICHY SRIRACHANIKORN is a PhD student of

the Social and Cultural Analysis program at Concordia University, Montreal.

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He works with Dr. BART SIMON to learn about the experiences of people living in social withdrawal, in senior homes, and those who feel that they are "non-synchronous" or exiled from the present conditions of everyday life.

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In particular, Richy looks at how nostalgia is used by institutions to define which certain things, activities, groups, and individuals belong to categories associated with time.

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NOSTALGIA, however, can also motivate people to use time meaningfully and operate as a project to care for things and others. It is in the practice of nostalgia that may serve to counteract institutions using time as a method of social control.

 

Richy's research rests at the intersection of material culture, actor-network theory, nostalgia studies, sociology of time, self and subjectivity, and symbolic interactionism.