The dead wait

Material afterlives in sepulchral spaces

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391256
AutoresJ F Walton (0000-0002-3378-7095, University of Rijeka, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen27
Número4
Páginas377-395
Fecha de publicación2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13591835221132378
OpenAlexW4306391298
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas21

This essay examines the heterotopic and heterochronic material afterlives of cemeteries through a comparative focus on two cities of the dead: Zagreb's Mirogoj Cemetery, which was established during the late 19th century, and Thessaloniki's Zeitenlik World War I Military Cemetery, which entombs Allied victims from the Salonika Front. My principal aim is to highlight the contrasts and contradictions between nationalized collective memories and unsettling imperial legacies that define the material afterlives of each of these cemeteries. In Mirogoj, material afterlives take shape as a palimpsest of eras, only some of which are monumentalized as collective memories. In Zeitenlik, the material afterlife of a single event of death-dealing, the Great War, constitutes an archive of bygone imperial socialities that defy the homogenizing logics of national identity in the present

Afterlife · Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Front (military · Geography · Invocation · Literature · Palimpsest · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration