· No works within political theory that examine nostalgia as a concept of relevance.

· There are not many competitors on the market right now to this volume. Although there is already a lot of nostalgia research being conducted in these 'nostalgic times', the content and purpose of this particular book is already represented by what is currently available.

· The overlapping themes of medicine and the body, populism, migration, and nostalgia are timely.

· Great translation potential with the surge of interest in nostalgia from Russia and China scholars who note with interest how 'nostalgic', populist, and nationalist politics has become in those countries.

· There is a lot of academic interest in nostalgia including psychology (Wood and Johnson, 2016; Wilson, 2014), business (Baltezarevic and Kwiatek, 2020), digital media (Niemeyer, 2014; Lizardi, 2014), literary theory (Austin, 2007), film (Dika, 2003), design (Kurlinkus, 2019), media studies (Mollett and Scott, 2021; Holdsworth, 2011; Daniel 2004), anthropology (Angé and Berliner, 2014), the relatively new fields of memory studies (Garrido-Davidson, 2019), nostalgia studies, and museum studies (Simine, 2013).