Martyn Hudson (UK. Northumbria University)

Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book rethinks landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorizing â social hauntingâ : the ways in which social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.

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Produktdetails

• Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367085452
• ISBN-10: 0367085453
• Artikelnr.: 57004337

Autorenporträt

Martyn Hudson is Associate Researcher and Project Coordinator at Newcastle University of the Co-Curate North-East project, and author of The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity and Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ghosts, landscapes and social memory
Chapter 1. Ghost armies: Memory, landscape and social haunting
Chapter 2. Dark caves: Prehistory and the origins of social ghosts
Chapter 3. Revolutionary spirits: Marx, Engels and catastrophe
Chapter 4. Excavating spectres: Haunting and psychoanalysis
Chapter 5. Night spaces: The haunted house
Chapter 6. Zong spectres: Ghosts of the slave system
Chapter 7. Ghastly fictions: Writing the catastrophe
Chapter 8. Nightvisiting songs: Performing the dead
Chapter 9. Spectral machines: Seeing social ghosts
Chapter 10. Conclusions: Arrivals from the future
References
Index