To get a brief theoretical introduction to the concept of haunting, you'll read a selection from Avery Gordon’s (1997/2008) Ghostly Matters. Gordon (1997/2008) explains that “we need to know that something is missing in order to even begin to look for it” (p. 178).

So, following Gordon’s observation of haunting as a necessary exploration of the unknown or overlooked, we'll engage the ghost as a trace of social violence, as an unruly past that is unsettling our present.