Possessed Architecture: Ancestral Hauntings in Confucianism
2022
Drawing upon academic and embodied explorations on the figure of the ghost in the broad and interdisciplinary field of memory research,
‘Possessed Architecture: Ancestral Hauntings in Confucianism’ delves
into the kaleidoscopic aspects of haunting metaphors to address past
instances of trauma that may affect present cultural realities in the
overseas Chinese community within Thailand. Examining social, political,
and cultural contexts in which ghosts are produced and encountered, the
dissertation also provides a detailed reading of a specific spatiotemporality
of the presence of the ghost in the Thai context that haunts the overseas
Chinese community in Thailand.
