Time, space and the social life new interpretation of cemeteries in the city

Paulina Tobiasz-Lis

doi:10.18778/1508-1117.35.04

Authors

Paulina Tobiasz-Lis University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Department of Regional and Human Geography

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1508-1117.35.04

Keywords:

cemetery, place, space, time, cognition, human geography

Abstract

The article reveals the issue of time recorded in the urban space, which determines the specific rhythm, continuity and passing of consecutive generations and their social relations. Presented research results focus on cemeteries and appear to be helpful in better understanding of their identity in the city structure, as well as the factors shaping their perceptions by individual people. Qualitative research methods have been applied, in particular: visual materials (photos) analysis and the semantic field analysis.

It seems that the use of images and narratives opens up new possibilities for human geography, new sources of spatial exploration. The problem undertaken in the article is important both from the cognitive and practical perspective related to the appropriate shaping of the city space – modern, yet at the same time not rooted out of the tradition and identity of a particular place, where people would feel good, being able to find both a reference to the past and to the future.

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