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Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces (Paperback)
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Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces (Paperback)
Series: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
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This book offers an ethnographic exploration of three sites of
infamous atrocity and their differing memorialization. 'Dark
tourism' research has studied the consumerization of spaces
associated with death and barbarity, whilst 'difficult heritage'
has looked at politicized, national debates that surround the
preservation of death. This book contributes to these debates by
applying spatial theory on a scalar level, particularly through the
work of Henri Lefebvre. It uses escalating case studies to situate
memorialization, and the multifarious demands of politics,
consumption and community, within a framework that rearticulates
'lived', 'perceived' and 'conceived' aspects of deviant spaces
ranging from the small (a bench) to the very large (a city). The
first case study, the Tyburn gallows site in York, uses Lefebvre's
notion of 'theatrical space' to contextualize the role of
performativity in memorialization. The second, Number 25 Cromwell
Street in Gloucester, builds on this by exploring the absence of
memorialization through Lefebvre's concept of 'contradictory space'
and the impact this has on consumption. The third expands to
consider the city as a problematic memorial, here focusing on the
political subjectivities of Dresden - rebuilt following the
devastation of the Second World War - and its contemporary
associations with neo-Nazi and anti-fascist protests. Ultimately,
by examining the issue of scale in heritage, the book seeks to
develop a new way of unpacking and understanding the heteroglossic
nature of deviant space and memorialization.
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