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Here are some of our favorite books, articles, and organizations on hauntings, spectralities, ghosts, phantoms, and (insert your favorite ghostly synonym here). This bibliography is a work in progress.

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Books

Blanco, M. del P., & Peeren, E. (Eds.). (2013). The spectralities reader: Ghosts and haunting in contemporary cultural theory. Bloomsbury Academic.

Cho, G. M. (2008). Haunting the Korean diaspora. University of Minnesota Press.

Derrida, J. (2012). Specters of Marx: The state of the debt, the work of mourning and the new international. Routledge.

Dickey, C. (2017). Ghostland: An American history in haunted places. Penguin.

Farber, P. M., & Lum, K. (Eds.). (2019). Monument Lab: Creative speculations for Philadelphia. Temple University Press.

Gordon, A. (1997). Ghostly matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination. University of Minnesota Press.

Gregg, M., Seigworth, G. J. (Eds.). (2010). Introduction. In The affect theory reader (pp. 1-25). Duke University Press.

Iwasaka, M., & Barre, T. (1994). Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural experience in Japanese death legends. Utah State University, University Libraries.

Miles, T. (2015). Tales from the haunted south: Dark tourism and memories of slavery from the Civil War era. UNC Press Books.

Owens, S. (2017). The ghost: A cultural history. Tate Publishing.

Sharpe, C. (2016). One: The wake. In In the wake: On blackness and being (pp. 1-24). Duke University Press.

Trigg, D. (2012). The memory of place: A phenomenology of the uncanny. Ohio University Press.

Articles

Bell, M. M. (1997). The ghosts of place. Theory and society, 26(6), 813-836.

Gordon, A. (2011). Some thoughts on haunting and futurity. Borderlands, 10(2), 1-21.

Goulding, C. (2017). Living with ghosts, living otherwise: Pedagogies of haunting in post- genocide Cambodia. In M. Bellino & J. Williams (Eds.), (Re)Constructing memory: Education, identity, and conflict (pp. 241-286). Sense Publishers.

Jonker, J., & Till, K. E. (2009). Mapping and excavating spectral traces in post-apartheid Cape Town. Memory Studies, 2(3), 303-335.

Lewis, T. (1996). The politics of “hauntology” in Derrida's Specters of Marx. Rethinking Marxism, 9(3), 19-39.

Morrill, A., & Tuck, E. (2016). Before dispossession, or surviving it. Liminalities, 12(1), 1.

Pinder, D. (2001). Ghostly footsteps: voices, memories and walks in the city. Ecumene, 8(1), 1-19.

Rizvi, A. (2014). The dislocated children of violence and memory: Ghostly apparitions of injustice in the legal, literary, cultural and social. Birkbeck L. Rev., 2, 115.

Ruin, H. (2019). The claim of the past: Historical consciousness as memory, haunting, and responsibility in Nietzche and beyond. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 51(6), 798-813.

Sterling, C. (2014). Spectral Anatomies: Heritage, hauntology and the ‘ghosts’ of Varosha. Present Pasts, 6(1).

Toso, T., Spooner-Lockyer, K., & Hetherington, K. (2020). Walking with a Ghost River: Unsettling Place in the Anthropocene. Anthropocenes–Human, Inhuman, Posthuman, 1(1).

Tuck, E., & Ree, C. (2016). A glossary of haunting. In S.H. Jones, T.E. Adams, & C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of autoethnography (pp. 639-658). Routledge.

Organizations and Initiatives

Mapping Spectral Traces

Mapping Spectral Traces is a trans-disciplinary, international group of scholars, practitioners, community leaders and artists who work with and in traumatized communities, contested lands and diverse environments. As part of a commitment to socially engaged creative practice, network members have worked collaboratively and individually on projects that ‘map’ the unseen and unacknowledged difficult pasts that continue to structure present-day social relations.

Race and Revolution

Race and Revolution curates annual exhibitions that "aim to bring the conversation of race and racism from the past into the present by displaying excerpts from historical documents with contemporary artworks." Curator Katie Fuller seeks to tell a more inclusive history allowing us to rethink the ways we understand our present. Past exhibitions, such as 2019's Reimagining Monuments, offer creative ways for us to acknowledge and engage with our ghosts.

Twisted Preservation

Twisted Preservation is a New York City-based cultural & Museum consulting firm known for an experimental and research-based approach to problem-solving. They have expertise in the full spectrum of nonprofit management, operations, community engagement, contemporary art curation, with extensive experience in preservation and heritage site issues.