The Afterlife of Centralia: Presences in a Landscape of Destruction

Centralia can be thought of as a "remnant landscape". It is a geography of destruction that holds historic and social importance: the effects of coal mining operations on attached social communities. Centralia is "haunted" by the ghosts of place as a process that generates renewed materializations of past actions in new spaces (above rather than below ground). It has created an uncanny and haunting "afterlife" for this former coal mining town. There is still a lived experience here (the "Gr...