Community activism

Chong, T. 2014

‘Bukit Brown Municipal Cemetery: contesting imaginations of the good life in Singapore’ in D. Goh (ed.) Worlding Multiculturalisms, London: Routledge, 171-192.

Galland, C. 2007

Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves, New York: HarperOne.

Holleran, S. 2023

‘From graves to gardens: Berlin’s changing cemeteries’, City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 247-261.

Huang, J. 2014

‘Resurgent spirit of civil society activism: rediscovering the Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 87:2, 21-45.

Hunang, J. 2014

‘Resurgent spirit of civil society activism: rediscovering the Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 87:2, 21-45.

Liew, K., Pang, N. & Chan, B. 2013

‘New media and new politics with old cemeteries and disused railways: advocacy goes digital in Singapore’, Asian Journal of Communication, 23:6, 605-619.

Loh, K. 2012

History of the Dead, Heritage of the Living: Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore’, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, 42.

Rosenblatt, A., Palmer, E.H. & Palmer, B. 2023

‘Permanent reconstruction: Richmond’s Black cemeteries’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 253-282.

Rugg, J. 2017

‘Taken “as read”: locating death in the rhetoric of cemetery conservation in England’, in M. Frihammar & H. Silverman (eds) Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice, London: Routledge, 50-62.

Tan, S. & B. Yeo 2023

‘Between life, death and modernity at Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore’, in D. House & M. Westendorp with A. Maddrell (eds) New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Changes and Contestation, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 42-61.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract