Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Hudson, Martyn (2017) Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781138234536

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Abstract

This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising ‘social haunting’: the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.

Examining the relationship between historical practices such as archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the past, the author explores the literary and historical status and accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these figures, but for their significance for our, constantly re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres, Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for understanding the past, the dead and social ghosts and the landscapes they appear in.

A sociology of haunting that illustrates how social landscapes have their genesis and perpetuation in haunting and the past, this volume will appeal to sociologists and social theorists with interests in memory, haunting and culture.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	L900 Others in Social studies
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Arts
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	01 Feb 2018 13:02
Last Modified:	01 Feb 2018 13:02
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/33240

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