Spectral Spaces and Hauntings

ISBN-13: 9780367872588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Christina Lee

Opis

This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. Contributors navigate affective spaces that have the potential to threaten, destabilise and sometimes even c

Recenzje

"How might contact with geographies of absence shift our taken-for-granted understandings of space and time? In this timely intervention, a range of scholars and artists explore how the memories, experiences and material environments of particular places have the power to haunt the social imaginary and our individual psyches. By reanimating the realities of abandoned places, ruins and the disappeared, the authors of Spectral Spaces and Hauntings call us to attend to the ‘work that needs to be done to prevent future injustices’." -- Karen E. Till, Maynooth University, Ireland

"A timely and important collection of incisive and insightful essays which address some of the most urgent and important issues which concern scholars working in memory studies, and humanities more generally." -- Anindya Raychaudhuri, University of St Andrews, UK

Spis treści

Introduction: Locating Spectres

Christina Lee

PART I: Private Hauntings

1 The Haunted Spaces of 7/7: Memory, Mediatisation and Performance

John Tulloch

2 Dream House

Pippa Tandy

3 Home is Where the Hearth Was: Remembering and Place-Making a Vanished Town

Christina Lee

4 Unsettling Space and Time: Journey to Purton Ships’ Graveyard

Lisa Hill

5 ‘Popping Up to See Pat’: Attending Absence at Roadside Shrines

Elly Bavidge

PART II: Spectres of the Social

6 ‘Un aéroport-fantôme’: The Ghost of Mirabel International Airport

Liz Millward

7 Zombie South: Cormac McCarthy’s Architectures of the Undead

Daniel Cross Turner

8 Double Exposure: Rephotography and the Life of Place

László Munteán

9 Ghosts on Screen: The Politics of Intertemporality

Alison Landsberg

10 ‘Our Monuments Shall be the Maws of Kites’: Laura Oldfield Ford and the Ghosts of Psychogeography Past

Christopher Collier

11 From Spectres of Horror to ‘The Beautiful Death’: Re-Corporealising the Desaparecidos of Argentina

Sonia M. Tascón

O autorze

Christina Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Australia.