The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts

This paper explores how scholars construct heritage when writing about psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries and, furthermore, investigates the role that emotions play in this process. 49 articles books on topic of cemeteries, published between years 1996 2020, are investigated. Sara Ahmed’s queer feminist phenomenology is adopted as a methodological theoretical approach. In article, scholarly communication considered site where constructed ways which constructed. I show that, by positioning graves unmarked, unidentified unnamed well forgotten abandoned, drawing anti-psychiatric discourses sentiments connected to family. allows be regret, further forms incentives for argue management, conservation, instalment monuments.