Hudson Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-30665-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising ‘social haunting’: the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.

Examining the relationship between historical practices such as archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the past, the author explores the literary and historical status and accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these figures, but for their significance for our constantly re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres, Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for understanding the past, the dead and social ghosts and the landscapes they appear in.

A sociology of haunting that illustrates how social landscapes have their genesis and perpetuation in haunting and the past, this volume will appeal to sociologists and social theorists with interests in memory, haunting and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hudson, Martyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.