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Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Hudson, Martyn

Paperback

Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0367085453
ISBN13: 9780367085452
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 18 2018
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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