TAG, 2008

Mortuary Landscapes

Katherine Marino (Brown University)
Contact: Katherine_Marino@Brown.edu

Landscapes do more than passively frame the activities of life within them: they actively shape the ways in which people move through space and structure their daily lives. Cemeteries are often highly charged areas with either taboos or emotional connections associated with them, the harnessing of which can be a source of social power for those who create and appropriate these areas. The organization of such spaces and their degree of monumentality can also provide a stylized view about those that create them and the ideologies they wish to propagate. This session seeks to explore ways in which these two concepts of space have combined and interacted to affect people's experiences of their world. Papers which address this question from a variety of geographical and theoretical standpoints, including explorations of power, ideology, practice, agency, resistance, gender, memory and genocide, are welcome.