Necrogeography

Kjærsgaard, A. 2019

‘Danish churchyards as consolationscapes’, in C. Jedan, A. Maddrell & E. Venbrux (eds) Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss: Grief and Consolation in Space and Time, London: Routledge, 110-126.

Klaufus, C. 2014

‘Deathscapes in Latin America’s metropolises: urban land use, funerary transformations, and daily inconveniences’, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 96, 99-111.

Kolnberger, T., Streb, C., & Kmec, S. 1996

‘The material culture of burial and its microgeography: a Luxembourg cemetery as a methodological example of an object-centred approach to quantitative material culture studies’, Journal of Material Culture, 24:3, 334-359.

Maddrell, A. 2016

‘Mapping grief. A conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance’, Social & Cultural Geography, 17:2, 166-188.

Majewska, A. 2017

‘Jewish sepulchral heritage in Silesian Voivodeship divided by the borders: similarities and differences’, Region and Regionalism, 13, 147-67.

Marjavaara, R. 2024

‘Dödens geografi: en introduktion’, in R. Marjavaara (ed.) Dödens Geografi, Stockholm: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi, 7-31.

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Muzaini, H. 2017

‘Necrogeography’, in D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.Goidchild & 3 others (eds) International Encyclopedia of Geography, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1-2.

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Silverman, H. 2002

Introduction: The Space and Place of Death’, Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 11: 1-11.

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Teather, E. 1998

‘Themes from complex landscapes: Chinese cemeteries and columbaria in urban Hong Kong’, Australian Geographic Studies, 36, 21-36.

Tremlett, P-F. 2007

‘Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrogeography’, Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, 1: 23-36.

Yeoh, B. & Tan, B. 1995

‘The living and the dead: changing geographies of death in post-war Singapore’, Malaysian Journal of Tropical Geography, 26, 77-87.

Zelinsky, W. 1976

‘Unearthly delights: cemetery names and the map of the changing American afterworld’, in D. Lowenthal and M. Bowden (eds) Geographies of the Mind, New York: Oxford University Press.

Events

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