Maddrell, Avril;
Beebeejaun, Yasminah;
Kmec, Sonja;
Wingren, Carola;
(2022)
Cemeteries and crematoria, forgotten public spaces in multicultural Europe. An agenda for inclusive minority provision.
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10.1111/area.12824.
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Abstract
In western Europe, municipal or otherwise state-commissioned cemeteries and crematoria are public spaces and services, open to all. Cemeteries and crematoria grounds are neglected in geographical, planning and policy debates about the character, design, management, use and accessibility of public spaces, and likewise debates about the social inclusion of migrants and minorities. This may reflect a tendency to situate cemeteries socially and geographically in the peripheries of contemporary European society, but they are, nonetheless, sites of vital public health infrastructure, as well as being highly significant symbolic, religious-spiritual, secular-sacred, and emotionally laden places. Examining cemeteries-crematoria against a criteria of inclusive public space provides new insights into (1) the nature of public space and its governance; (2) rights and barriers to shared public spaces and associated infrastructure in everyday multicultural contexts; (3) national–local negotiations of majority-minorities social relations and cultural practices in and through public spaces; and (4) the need to place municipal cemeteries-crematoria centre stage in scholarship and policy on public space which is culturally inclusive and serves all citizens.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cemeteries and crematoria, forgotten public spaces in multicultural Europe. An agenda for inclusive minority provision |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/area.12824 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12824 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Area published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Geography, cemeteries and crematoria, citizenship, governance, multicultural, public space, URBAN SPACE, ENCOUNTERS, GEOGRAPHY, RELIGION, PLACE, CITY |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155953 |
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