{"id":311,"date":"2015-04-10T22:11:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2015-04-10T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:21:31","slug":"paranormal-cultures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/research-writing\/paranormal-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranormal Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I contributed a chapter,<em> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghosthostings.co.uk\/\">GHost<\/a> Project: manifesting ghosts through visual art and creative research,<\/em> on\u00a0 <em>GHost<\/em>\u00a0 to this really marvelous anthology of academic writings on the paranormal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures (2013)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ashgatecover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-315\" alt=\"ashgatecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ashgatecover.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>Edited by Olu Jenzen, University of Brighton, UK and Sally R. Munt, University of Sussex, UK<\/strong><br \/>\nDespite the much vaunted \u2018end of religion\u2019 and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own \u2018spiritualities of life\u2019. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international scholars across the social sciences and humanities to question how and why people are seeking meaning in the realm of the paranormal, a heretofore subjugated knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>With contributions from the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Canada, this ground-breaking book attends to the paranormal as a position from which to critique dominant forms of knowledge production and spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>A rich exploration of everyday life practices, textual engagements and discourses relating to the paranormal, as well as the mediation, technology and art of paranormal activity, this book explores themes such as subcultures and mainstreaming, as well as epistemological, methodological, and phenomenological questions, and the role of the paranormal in social change.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures constitutes an essential resource for those interested in the academic study of cultural engagements with paranormality; it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, popular culture, sociology, cultural geography, literature, film and music.<\/p>\n<p>Further details and full list of contributors here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/isbn\/9781472406125\">http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/isbn\/9781472406125<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paranormal Cultures websites, including some of the GHost Project\u00a0 images from the publication;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paranormalculturesresearch.com\/\"> http:\/\/www.paranormalculturesresearch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gk-social-buttons\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"gk-social-label\">Share:<\/span>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Paranormal+Cultures&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fresearch-writing%2Fparanormal-cultures%2F\"\n\t            onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'twitter-share', 'width=550,height=235');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Twitter<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>    \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fresearch-writing%2Fparanormal-cultures%2F\"\n\t\t\t     onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'facebook-share','width=580,height=296');return false;\">\n\t\t\t    <span class=\"social-icon-hidden\">Facebook<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-gplus\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fresearch-writing%2Fparanormal-cultures%2F\"\n\t           onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'google-plus-share', 'width=490,height=530');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Google+<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I contributed a chapter, The GHost Project: manifesting ghosts through visual art and creative research, on\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}