Deathscapes: Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

324 Pages·2010·4.66 MB·English

by  Avril Maddrell, James D. Sideway (eds.)

Deathscapes
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Deathscapes
spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance
edited by
avRil MaDDRell
University of the West of England, UK
and
JaMes D. siDaway
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
© avril Maddrell and James D. sidaway 2010
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Deathscapes : spaces for death, dying, mourning and
remembrance.
1. Death--social aspects. 2. Death--psychological
aspects. 3. Burial. 4. Memorialization. 5. Memorials.
6. sacred space. 7. place (philosophy) 8. Death in art.
i. Maddrell, avril, 1964- ii. sidaway, James D.
306.9-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deathscapes : spaces for death, dying, mourning and remembrance / [edited] by avril Mad-
drell and James D. sidaway.
p. cm.
includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7975-2 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9935-4 (ebook)
1. Death. 2. Bereavement. i. Maddrell, avril, 1964- ii. sidaway, James D.
Gt3190.D425 2010
306.9--dc22
2010028776
ISBN 978 0 7546 7975 2 (hbk)
ISBN 978 0 7546 9935 4 (ebk)
contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xv
Preface xvii
1 introduction: Bringing a spatial lens to Death, Dying, Mourning
and Remembrance 1
Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway
PARt I At the thReShoLD – LIvIng wIth DeAth
2 ‘It’s Not Really Like a Hospice’:
spaces of self-help and community care for cancer 19
Jacqueline H. Watts
3 laying lazarus to Rest: the place and the space of the Dead in
explanations of Near Death experiences 37
Mary Murray
PARt II SPACeS of BuRIAL: tABoo, IConoCLASM
AnD RetuRnIng to nAtuRe
4 Buried Bodies in an east london cemetery: Re-visiting taboo 57
Kate Woodthorpe
5 From anti-social Behaviour to X-rated: exploring social Diversity
and Conflict in the Cemetery 75
Bel Deering
6 Rest in peace? Burial on private land 95
Clare Gittings and Tony Walter
7 From cabbages to cadavers: Natural Burial Down on the Farm 119
Andy Clayden, Trish Green, Jenny Hockey and Mark Powell
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PARt III negotIAtIng SPACe foR MeMoRIALISAtIon In
PRIvAte AnD PuBLIC SPACe
8 the production of a Memorial place:
Materialising expressions of Grief 141
Anna Petersson
9 Bringing the Dead Back Home: Urban Public Spaces as Sites
for New patterns of Mourning and Memorialisation 161
Leonie Kellaher and Ken Worpole
10 Memorialisation of Us college and University tragedies:
spaces of Mourning and Remembrance 181
Kenneth Foote and Sylvia Grider
11 private spaces for the Dead: Remembrance and continuing
Relationships at home Memorials in the Netherlands 207
Joanna Wojtkowiak and Eric Venbrux
PARt Iv ARt AnD DeSIgn In SeRvICe of ReMeMBRAnCe
AnD MouRnIng
12 living to living, living to Dead: communication and political
Rivalry in Roman tomb Design 225
Penelope J.E. Davies
13 Maxwell Fry and the ‘anatomy of Mourning’:
coychurch crematorium, Bridgend, Glamorgan, south wales 243
Hilary J. Grainger
14 the living, the Dead and the imagery of emptiness
and Re-appearance on the Battlefields of the Western Front 263
Paul Gough
15 art and Mourning in an antarctic landscape 283
Polly Gould
Index 299
list of Figures and tables
figures
Figure 5.1 visitors to Jim Morrison’s grave in père lachaise cemetery,
paris 87
Figure 7.1 seven penny Meadows 123
Figure 7.2 Green lane Burial Field 124
Figure 7.3 crossways woodland Burials 125
Figure 8.1 The official monument in remembrance of the pastor
Ingemar Simonsson, who was killed in a motor vehicle
accident in 2005 on the beach in Malmö, sweden 148
Figure 10.1 examples of permanent memorials resulting from campus
tragedies 182
Figure 10.2 the immortal ten memorial at Baylor University (waco,
TX) honouring the members of the campus basketball team
killed in 1927 194
Figure 10.3 campus memorials from the civil rights and vietnam war
period 196
Figure 10.4 Memorial at texas a&M University (college station, tX)
on the site of the bonfire collapse of 1999 198
Figure 11.1 home memorial consisting of photograph, candles,
mourning card and other personal objects 209
Figure 12.1 Reconstruction of the facade of the tomb of the scipios,
ca. 150 Bce 226
Figure 12.2 section of the tomb of caecilia Metella. illustration
reproduced courtesy of Rita paris 228
Figure 13.1 coychurch crematorium 251
Figure 13.2 Original site plan – coychurch crematorium c. 1970 255
Figure 14.1 stanley spencer, drawing study for ‘the Resurrection of the
soldiers’, sandham Memorial chapel, Burghclere 278
Figure 15.1 Mantegna Dead Christ, 89 × 71 cm, oil on canvas, fifteenth
century, pinocoteca di Brera, Milan 285
Figure 15.2 Jan van Eyck, a detail from Portrait of Giovanni (?)
Arnolfini and his Wife, 82.2 × 60 cm, oil on oak, 1434,
National Gallery, london 287
Figure 15.3 e.J. Bellocq, (1873–1949) Storyville Portrait, ca.1912,
MoMa, plate 31 288
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Figure 15.4 John Dwight’s Fulham pottery, Lydia Dwight: Figure of
Lydia Dwight on her Deathbed, 25.5 × 20.5 × 11 cm, hand-
modelled and salt-glazed stoneware, 1673 289
Figure 15.5 polly Gould, Peninsular, video still, 2005 295
Figure 15.6 polly Gould, untitled, 14 × 12 cm, watercolour on paper,
2005 297
tables
table 5.1 Recreational activities in cemeteries 80
table 5.2 themes emerging from the data 84
table 6.1 long-term outcomes for burials on the deceased’s own
land: those with spouse or direct descendants (children/
grandchildren), compared to those without 99
table 6.2 Garden versus estate burials: the long-term outcomes of
requests for burial on the deceased’s own land 100
table 10.1 Us college and university tragedies and memoralisations 187
Notes on contributors
Andy Clayden teaches landscape architecture at the Department of landscape,
University of Sheffield and is also a practising landscape architect who specialises
in aspects of sustainable design. his research interests focus on the design and
management of cemeteries and specifically natural burial. He has co-authored
books on different aspects of sustainable landscape design, has contributed to the
development of government guidance on natural burial, and has published refereed
articles and book chapters on this subject.
Penelope Davies is associate professor in Roman art and architecture at the
University of texas at austin. winner of the vasari award for Death and the
Emperor: The Funerary Monuments of the Roman Emperors from Augustus
to Marcus Aurelius (cambridge 2000, Ut press 2004), she is also co-author
of Janson’s History of Art (prentice hall 2007 and 2010). her current research
focuses on public art and politics in Republican Rome.
Bel Deering is researching the recreational uses of cemeteries as a part-time
doctoral student at the University of Brighton. she has Bachelor and Masters
Degrees in plant science from the University of Oxford. prior to her current post
she worked at the University of Aberdeen where she carried out a botanical research
project in graveyards in Moscow and scotland. Bel won a Millennium Fellowship
in 1999 to carry out environmental research in western australia and has also
delivered training programmes in Belize, Bermuda, Spain and Greece. She works
for the Rspca, managing an education centre, wildlife rehabilitation centre and
nature reserve and is the author of Animal Welfare (heinemann) and numerous
articles on animal welfare education for journals such as Child Education and
Primary Times.
Ken foote is a professor of Geography at the University of colorado at Boulder.
His work focuses on the social and geographical dynamics of public memory
and commemoration, especially the imprint of violence on landscape in the Us
and Europe. Some of his works in this area are Shadowed Ground: America’s
Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (2003) and Shadowed Ground, Sacred
Place: Reflections on Violence, Tragedy, Memorials and Public Commemorative
Rituals (2010) as well as articles he has co-authored with Maoz azaryahu
including Historical Space as Narrative Medium: On the Configuration of
Spatial Narratives of Time at Historical Sites (2008) and Toward a Geography
of Memory: Geographical Dimensions of Public Memory and Commemoration