ABSTRACT
Hauntings are rather about specific kinds of social and political and even economic practices that are themselves imbued with tension and contestation. They are about an alternative way of viewing that takes into account the ghostly, which exists and operates on the margins of what is generally considered traditional politics. Julian Holloway and James Kneale propose two manifestations of ghosts. The first, textual, fits with much of the work cited above, wherein the primary focus is on the literary ghost story. The second is material: 'the interaction between the ghostly immateriality and the spectral transformation of different objects, bodies, and spatialities'. Dead bodies are interesting because of their complex potentials. As Katherine Verdery writes, the most important property of bodies is precisely their ambiguity. Dead bodies are not human beings, because they are no longer possessed with the vitality and sense of self-identification that we associate with living beings.
