The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Woodthorpe, K. 2010
‘Private grief in public spaces: interpreting memorialisation in the contemporary cemetery’, in J. Hockey, C. Komaromy & K. Woodthorpe, K. (eds) The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 117-132.
Woodthorpe, K., Rumble, H., & Valentine, C. 2013
‘Putting ‘the grave’into social policy: state support for funerals in contemporary UK society’, Journal of Social Policy, 42:3, 605-622.
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Woodthorpe, K., Rumble, H., Corden, A. & 5 others 2022
‘My memories of the time we had together are more important’: direct cremation and the privatisation of UK funerals’, Sociology, 56:3, 556-573.
Woollen, M. 2011
‘Woodland Cemetery: Modernism and memory’, in A. Demo & B. Vivian (eds) Rhetoric, Remembrance and Visual Form, London: Routledge, 67-86.
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Worpole, K. 2003
Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West, London: Reaktion Books.
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Woudstra, J. 1995
‘Danish landscape design in the modern era’, Garden History, 2, Winter, 222-241.
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Wright, E. 2005
‘Rhetorical spaces in memorial places: the cemetery as a rhetorical memory place/space’, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 35:4, 51-81.
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Wright, R. & Hughes, W. 1996
Lay Down Body: Living History in African-American Cemeteries, Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press.
Wrigley, R. & Craske, M. 2004
Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1-10.
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Wueshner, S. 2001
‘One man’s demise is another man’s gain: the growth of the funeral industry on the Iowa frontier’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 19, 245-251.
Wyss-Giacos, P. von 2020
Requiescant in pace: staging nature as a socio-religious practice in Highgate Cemetery’, in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present, ebooks, Nomos,
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Yang, K., & Chen, X. 2015
‘Analysis on establishing urban cemetery planning and compiling system’, Asian Agricultural Research’, 7, 55-57.
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Yanner, K.& Ybarrola, S. 2003
‘“He didn’t have no cross”: tombs and graves as racial boundary tactics on a Louisiana barrier island’, The Oral History Review, 30:2, 1-28.
Yarrington, A. 2004
‘Popular and imaginary pantheons in early nineteenth-century England’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 107-122.
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Yarwood, R., Sidaway, J., Kelly, C. & Stillwell, S. 2014
‘Sustainable deathstyles? The geography of green burials in Britain’, The Geographic Journal, 181:2, 172-184.
Yeoh, B. 1999
‘The body after death: place, tradition and the nation-state in Singapore’, in E. Teather (ed.) Embodied Geographies. Spaces, Bodies and Rites of Passage, Routledge: London, 240-255.
Yeoh, B. 1991
‘The control of “sacred” space: conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds in colonial Singapore, 1880-1930’, Journal of Southeastern Asian Studies, 26, 282-311.
Yeoh, B. & Hui, T. 1995
‘The politics of space: changing discourses on Chinese burial grounds in post-war Singapore’, Journal of Historical Geography, 21, 2,184-201.
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.
