1st Edition

Spectral Spaces and Hauntings

Edited By Christina Lee Copyright 2017
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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

"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