Spectral Spaces and Hauntings

Christina Lee

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English

Routledge
06 March 2017

Cultural studies; Media studies; Human geography; Unexplained phenomena & the paranormal

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the ‘appearance’ of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered. The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack, the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise, and the body as a site for re-corporealising the disappeared and dead. In ruminating on the afteraffects of spectral spaces on human experience, the anthology importantly foregrounds the ethical and political imperative of engaging with ghosts and following their traces.

Edited by: Christina Lee
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138856820
ISBN 10: 1138856827
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 06 March 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

Reviews for Spectral Spaces and Hauntings

"""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"