Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- Emerald Studies in Death and Culture Series .
- Emerald Studies in Death and Culture Series .
Front Cover -- Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I.1. Doing Things with Heritage -- I.2. Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces -- I.3. Structure -- I.3.1. Theatrics -- I.3.2. Consumption -- I.3.3. Politicization -- I.4. The Aims of This Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Heritage and Space: Some Theoretical Perspectives -- 1.1. Questions of Power and Scale -- 1.2. Space as Relational, Space as Social -- 1.3. Turning Back to Lefebvre -- Chapter 2 Theatrics (The Tyburn Gallows, York) -- 2.1. Unpacking Lefebvre's Spatial Triad -- 2.2. Tyburn as a Historically and Topographically Conceived Space -- 2.3. Tyburn as a Lived Space -- 2.4. Tyburn as a Perceived Space -- 2.5. Tyburn as Theatrical Space -- 2.6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Consumption (Number 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester) -- 3.1. Some Context -- 3.2. Number 25 as Perceived Space -- 3.3. Number 25 as Conceived Space -- 3.4. Number 25 as Lived Space -- 3.5. Theatrical Space or Watched Space? -- 3.6. Theatrical Space as Contradictory Space -- 3.7. The Space of Consumption -- 3.8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Politicization (Neumarkt, Dresden) -- 4.1. Dresden's Neumarkt as Conceived Space -- 4.2. Dresden's Neumarkt as perceived space -- 4.3. Spatial Practice and Political Subjectivities -- 4.4. Conclusion -- Conclusions -- C.1. Where Next? -- Bibliography -- Index.
How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spacesadapts contemporary spatial theory to develop a new conceptual toolbox, complementing existing work on dark tourism and difficult heritage, to explore the multifarious ways that memorialization functions.