Necrogeographies: A walk around St Nikolaos Cemetery in Limassol

Τhe 1st and 2nd of November find us in Limassol’s old cemetery. We gather to explore local burial customs; the necrogeographies of children, women, and men; and the political economy and religious diplomacy of death. Drawing on interviews with those whose work and relationships sustain the cemetery we trace personal and institutional threads that shape this space. Alongside our own academic inquiries and cross-cultural research findings, we have envisioned a memorable walk through Limassol’s most silence(d) yard.

Yiannis Papadakis

Yiannis Papadakis is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. He is the author of Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide (I. B. Tauris,2005), co-editor of Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History and an Island in Conflict (Indiana University Press, 2006), editor of a 2006 special issue of Postcolonial Studies and co-editor of Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict and Identity in the Margins of Europe (Bloomsbury, 2014), among others. His recent work engages with issues of migration and social democracy in Denmark and the comparative study of cemeteries in Cyprus, Denmark and Japan.

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou‍

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is PhD Candidate in Geography, at Harokopio University of Athens, working on Athens’s cemeteries and necrogeographies. Recent publications include: Tracing otherness in online cemetery audience research, Paraskevopoulou, I., Dermitzoglou, G., Kritikos, G., & Georgitsoyanni, E. (2022), The ‘Other’ at the cemetery of Anastasis of Piraeus and the Third Cemetery of Athens. Mortality, 29(1), 141–158; Paraskevopoulou, I. (2015), The First Cemetery of Athens: Historic Visions 1834-2013, Polis.