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| Barkerville Cemetery, BC from Wkikmedia Commons |
Over their dead bodies: a study of leisure and spatiality in cemeteries by Annabel Deering PhD candidate at the University of Brighton.
It's a study of the leisure use of cemeteries and introduced me to the following terms I had never before encountered:
- heterotopia
- purple recreation
- dark tourism
- garbology
which I would encourage you to Google. I very much like her conclusion that "the cemetery engages the visitor in deep and meaningful ways that have previously been underestimated."
What a corker of a subject!
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