The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Compromised sites: Destruction
Bollig, M. 1997
‘Contested places: graves and graveyards in Himba culture’, Anthropos: International Review of Ethnology and Linguistics, 92:1-3, 35-50.
Loh, K. 2012
History of the Dead, Heritage of the Living: Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, 42.
Ocón, D. 2021
‘Digitalising endangered cultural heritage in Southeast Asian cities: preserving or replacing?’, International Journal of Heritage Studies 27:10, 975-990.
Salmon, C. 2016
‘Ancient Chinese cemeteries of Indonesia as vanishing landmarks of the past (17th-20th c.)’, Archipel (En Ligne), 92, 23-61.
Skosana. D. 2021
‘Grave matters: dispossession and the desecration of ancestral graves by mining corporations in South Africa’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 40:1, 1-16.
Skosana. D. 2021
‘Mining, graves sites and dispossession in Mpumalanga’’, in W. Beinart, R. Kingwill & G. Capps (eds) Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 104-120.
Skosana. D. 2017
‘Protecting the dead: the South African National Heritage Resources Act in context’, in M. Christian Green, R. Hackett, L. Hansen & F. Venter (eds) Religious Pluralism, Heritage and Social Development, Stellenbosch: Sun MeDIA, 315-331.
Tan, S. & B. Yeo 2023
‘Between life, death and modernity at Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore’, in D. House & M. Westendorp with A. Maddrell (eds) New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Changes and Contestation, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 42-61.
