Cultural reading

Amadei, G. 2021

Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London: Spatial Consequences to the Reordering of London’s Burials in the Early 19th Century, London: Routledge.

Bell, D. & Bongiorni, K. (eds) 1996

Cemeteries and Spaces of Death: Inquiries into their Meaning, Xenos Books: Riverside CA.

Danani, C. 2020

‘Image practices at Highgate past and present: introduction ’, in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Preseebooks, Nomos, 11-29

Dollimore, J. 1998

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press.

Malysheva, S. 2018

‘Soviet death and hybrid subjectivity: urban cemetery as metatext’, Ab Imperio, 3/21018, 351-384.

Mann, B. 2000

‘Modernism and the Zionist uncanny: reading the old cemetery in Tel Aviv’, Representations, 69 : 63-95.

Miller, D. & Rivera, J. 2006

‘Hallowed ground, place and culture: the cemetery and the creation of space,’ Space and Culture, 9:4, 334-350.

Pezzoli-Olgiat, D. 2020

Performing difference in front of death: material, bodily and spatial practice’, in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present, ebooks, Nomos, 53-77.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract