The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Compromised sites: Decommissioning
Seidemann, R. & Halling, C. 2019
‘Landscape structural violence: a view from New Orleans’s cemeteries’, American Antiquities, 84:4, 669-683.
Shaffer, C. 2003
‘The standing of the dead: solving the problem of abandoned graveyards’, Capital University Law Review, 32:2, 479-498.
Shelton, T. 2008
‘Unmaking historic spaces: urban progress and the San Francisco Cemetery Debate, 1895-1937’, California History, 85, 3, 26-70.
Swensen, G. 2018
‘Between romantic historic landscapes, rational management models and oblitarations – urban cemeteries as green memory sites’, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 33, 58-65.
Uslu, A. 2010
‘An ecological approach for the evaluation of an abandoned cemetery as a green area: the case of Ankara/Karakusunlar cemetery’, African Journal of Agricultural Research, 5:10, 1043-54.
Vine, M. 2024
‘Finding Zion: Spectral intimacy and state indeterminacy at an erased American cemetery’, History and Anthropology, 35:1, 31-47.
Wang, H. 2018
‘Exhuming the city: the politics and poetics of graveyard clearance’, in G. Moore & M. Smith (eds) Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture, London: Palgrave, 115-134.
Weiss-Krejci, E. 2016
‘“Tomb to give away”’: the significance of graves and dead bodies in present-day Austria’, in H. Williams and M. Giles (eds) Archaeologists and the Dead, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 345-366.
