Negotiating a Postmemory Dichotomy: Nostalgia and Aversion in Malta

The island of Malta has served as a strategic colony since the dawn of history. Since Phoenician and Roman times, the island has been an important base in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Its last colonisers, the British, spent about 180 years using the islands for their imperial needs. The off...

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Autores principales:	George Cassar, Marie Avellino
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2020
Materias:	Malta British colony tourism industry nostalgia colonial aversion Law K Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e6d2036f96f6496ba7df69719995638d2021-11-27T13:12:05ZNegotiating a Postmemory Dichotomy: Nostalgia and Aversion in Malta 10.12797/Politeja.17.2020.65.171733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/e6d2036f96f6496ba7df69719995638d2020-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/1400https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 The island of Malta has served as a strategic colony since the dawn of history. Since Phoenician and Roman times, the island has been an important base in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Its last colonisers, the British, spent about 180 years using the islands for their imperial needs. The official closing of the British base on 31 March 1979 heralded a new economic and social reality supposedly unhampered by the exigencies of foreigners. Two major post-memory reactions kicked in – nostalgia and aversion to ex-colonial life. The postcolonial Maltese generations exhibit a range of reactions oscillating between love and hate for the British. On the other hand, British ex-service personnel and their families have continued to feel an affinity with the island base which they had come to acknowledge as a second home. This allows for a new type of relationship between the Maltese people and their British visitors where issues of colonial post-memory are negotiated. These are seen at their best in the local tourism industry. Malta woos British tourists and goes to great effort to attract them. It uses to its advantage the colonial affinity to create an attractive destination for the British which benefits the locals and the Maltese economy. In Malta post-memory has evolved in line with necessity and expediency, where animosity, though manifestly tangible, has gradually morphed into a rather benign residue in the collective reaction to the colonial past. George CassarMarie AvellinoKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleMaltaBritish colonytourism industrynostalgiacolonial aversionLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 17, Iss 2(65) (2020)
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description	The island of Malta has served as a strategic colony since the dawn of history. Since Phoenician and Roman times, the island has been an important base in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Its last colonisers, the British, spent about 180 years using the islands for their imperial needs. The official closing of the British base on 31 March 1979 heralded a new economic and social reality supposedly unhampered by the exigencies of foreigners. Two major post-memory reactions kicked in – nostalgia and aversion to ex-colonial life. The postcolonial Maltese generations exhibit a range of reactions oscillating between love and hate for the British. On the other hand, British ex-service personnel and their families have continued to feel an affinity with the island base which they had come to acknowledge as a second home. This allows for a new type of relationship between the Maltese people and their British visitors where issues of colonial post-memory are negotiated. These are seen at their best in the local tourism industry. Malta woos British tourists and goes to great effort to attract them. It uses to its advantage the colonial affinity to create an attractive destination for the British which benefits the locals and the Maltese economy. In Malta post-memory has evolved in line with necessity and expediency, where animosity, though manifestly tangible, has gradually morphed into a rather benign residue in the collective reaction to the colonial past.
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title	Negotiating a Postmemory Dichotomy: Nostalgia and Aversion in Malta
title_short	Negotiating a Postmemory Dichotomy: Nostalgia and Aversion in Malta
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Negotiating a Postmemory Dichotomy: Nostalgia and Aversion in Malta

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